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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 10, 1931.

the

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

Personal Pars.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taggart gave. Three persons were named as a dinner party at Repulse Bay Hotel trustees, and enjoined to keep care last night. There were forty-two ful watch over the young man, and) quests present.

10, 1931.

IDLE DEMONSTRATE

T.U.C. Meeting Rushed.

RINGLEADER INJURED.

بنه

London, Yesterday."

in case of even a single infringe- ment of the prohibitory clause the

Mr. S. M. Edwards, lately Secre- property was to be distributed tary of the Shanghai Municipal antong certain other members of Council, has returned to Shanghai There was a disorderly scene at the family. As the value of the from a holiday in Peltaiho. estate was about £2,000 a year, the has opened offices in Klukiang hall in which the Trades Union IIe Bristol this morning, outside the legatee signed the necessary pledge Read as an arbitrator. It will be Congress holding its session, without any hesitation-and pre- be recalled that Mr. Edwards, who

sumably became a diligent reader is a barrister-at-law, before coming owing to the Congress refusing to of the monthly reviews and the to the Shanghai Municipal Service, receive a deputation from a body Austrian equivalent of the "Annual assisted, the Treasurer in England of unemployed who had marched Register."

organiser of the National from South Wales. Savings Movement in England and Ireland..

M. Briand Sentenced!

They attempted trush the doors, but were repulsed by the police,. That draaded sentence, which, The engagement is announced The lender of the deputation was sooner or inter, is passed en most from Paris between Miss Aileen injured in the midst of the melee, heavy smokers. has been passed on Taiang, daughter of Mr. Tslang Lu the French statesman. He has

In which wonten fought desperately. heen told to smoke no more. Only Rome, to Mr. Tsuyee Pei, general foo, Chinese Charge d'Affairs in

The Congress to-day heard for- those who have heard his medical manager of the Bank of China in eigi visitors, notably M, Jouhaux, adviser utter this sentence can ap Shanghai and formerly a member of who spoke on behalf of the Interna- preciate fully what the bun means.

the Shanghai Municipal Council. And, as M. Brland has been in the habit of smoking between 50 and 60 cigarettes a day," he is to be greatly sympathised with, for he ia in for a bad time until craving vanishes.

News in Brief.

the

Pak Hi, a foki os a cargo boat, was removed to the hospital yes terday, suffering from a fracture of the right leg caused by an acc! dental fall on the bont.

A Chinese baby girl, stated to be a few days old, was found abandon ed on a vacant piece of ground at Aprliu Street near Boundary Street yesterday. She was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital by the Police.

Yeung Chi (31) a steerage pas. senger on the R.M.S. Empress of Japan, was removed to the Mental Hospital on the ship's arrival from Manila yesterday. He is believed

to be insane.

A man named Wong Ting-shun (21), of 13 Lam Kwal Fonz, 16 now a patient in the Kowloon Hospital as the result of taking a dose of adolin. His condition is not serious. He was found by the Police in the Asia boarding house, Pakhoi Street.

Found in Temple Street,

Bear

house No. 21, in an unconscious con- dition, and apparently suffering from fits at 8.30' o'clock last night,

an unknown Chinese woman was re-

stud-moved by the Police to the Kowloon

Hospital.

ragging and the medical examina- tion of the victim. A searching inquiry has been made. The identity of the raggers has not Ban on Ragging.

been disclosed. As a punishment Lugard Hall has been closed until In regard to the recent "rag- further notice. No letters to the ging" incident at Lugard Hall newspapers is likely to influence one of the undergraduates rushes the University authorities in into print and exclaims that "it is modifying or repealing their de- to be regretted that an insigni- cision until they themselves see ficant affair has attracted so fit. Outsiders must remain out- much publicity and attention." siders and not risk doing greater For that publicity the University mischief than good, by intruding Council or Court cannot be de- or intervening between, the bited with any blame-if blame University authorities and there be. Still, it is all to the undergraduates. good that rublicity should be From the admissions of given to the matter. There can be ents themselves it cannot be de- no defence to ragging in anynied that ragging to a certain ex- shape or form. It is cowardly. tent has been practised at the It is brutal. It is degrading various Halls at the University. Those responsible for ragging, A pitiable admission indeed! whether in 'schools, cal. Little wonder that our education- leges, universities, or in al factories turn out on to the

Yeung Chee (35), a steerage His Majesty's Forces, cannot professions and the commercial

on the R.M.S. Empress passenger .expect in this age. to be ele world an may half-bake i stud.of Japan, which arrived froni vated to the position of; heroes. enta, "dumb-bells." and bullies Manila yesterday morning, was re- moved to the Mental Hospital for They are simply bullies of the when their leisure time is occu-observation. It is alleged that first degree and deserve all the pied more or less with plotting Young became insane on the voy opprobium, and even punish-schemes for ragging. Whatever age. ment, meted out to them on the may be the outcome of the pre- Yesterday afternom, a small fall offence being discovered by their sent scandal at the University, it is to be trusted that the publicity given to it will quash ragging for all time.

superiors!

Mail Commentary.

Mr. Pei, who recently attended the tional Federation of Trade Unions, sixth biennial conference of the In-Mr. Ryan, of the American Federa tornational Chambers of Commerce tion of Labour, who said, that the in Washington and the Internation- unemployment situation in Ameri- al Labour Conference in Geneva, CB was quite as bad as in Britain, left Marseilles for Shanghai yes, Mr. Levitt, of the United Mine- terday, according to a message re-workers of America, who brought a ceived here.

greeting from Canada, and Mr. Joshi of India.-Router.

With reference to the report of the wedding of Mr. Cotowez and Miss Elms, Mr. J. J. Hingston writes to correct a reference to him-¡ self as being Chief Steward of the Empress of Japan. Mr. Hingston ia storekeeper, the Chief Steward being Mr. T. F. Bridge, who has held the appointment since the Japan left Britain for her Pacific service.

MONEY LEFT.

Will of a Chinese Widow.

CYCLIST'S PLUCK,

Contest After A Crash.

Rugby, Yesterday. Extraordinary pluck and deter- mination was shown by D. J. Pirie, the young London motor cyclist, who was the winner for the second year of the Junior Grand Prix motor-cycle race, at an average speed of nearly 70 miles an hour. Pirie last week crashed, badly and was taken to hospital. He emerged yesterday Hu Ip-shi, alias Hui Tipshi Sze, to compete in the race on a Velo- a widow, who died at her residence, cete machine, against 40 others. 18, Elgin Street, first floor, on June In spite of his injuries. he estab 9 last, left estate valued at $33,100. lished several new records on the Probate has been granted to Hui extremely difficult course, which Pan-hing, her second a

is 226 miles long. After'

He won by directing that her trustee realise nearly 5 minutes, and then col- the estate, and divide it into five lapsed completely and was taken portions, -two to go to her second back to hospital.--British Wire-. son, and three to her third son. less Service.

testatrix saya :--

"I desire to state that the reason

for giving my third son one share more than what I am giving to my

FALSE REPORT,

Imaginary Robbery in Castle Peak Road,

second son is that I regard my third son as the successor to my deceased eldest Bon. I therefore give him the share which I would have given to my first son, and hereby express tor of Yen Chau Street, Shamshui- Chau Kam-kee, a turfing contrac- A man named, Chung Hok was the wish that my third son will admitted to the Government Civil

po, reported to the Police on Hospital yesterday, auffering from eldest son by due observance of the Saturday last that at about noon Injuries to his finger, due to a

anniversaries of the death and on Friday, he WAS proceeding machinery accident on board the birth of my eldest son, in accord-along the Castle Peak Road be- s.s. King Yuer

A

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perpetuate the

memory

ance with Chinese customs.

of

TUY

NAUTILUS MISHAP. Now Undergoing Slight Repairs.

the

tween Kwal Ching and Tsun Wan when he was set upon by three men armed with hammers and a bamboo pole. He was relieved of $145, and the robbare.then disap-

peared down the hillside.

The report, has been found to be false, and that no robbery of any description took place.

CHARTERED. BANK, DIVIDEND.

Oslo, Yesterday. Although the extent of damage cannot be determined, it of earth occurred on the west side became apparent to-day that the of the new Jockey Club Stables aubmarine Nautilus, in which Sir

The following telegram has been There is no apparent danger Hubert Wilkins set out five days received by the local branch of the:. to life or property and P.W.D. ago for a cruise under the polar Chartered Rank of India, Australia. workmen are engaged on the site ice cap, has suffered some injury and China to-day from its head draining the water away.

to the hull or mechanism. The office in London:- only word concerning damage to The student named Gogate, who the submarine was a radio mes-interim dividend for the past. half "Directors, have declared an! attacked the Acting Governor of sage from the Nautilus that the year at the rate of 14 per cent, per! Bombay, Sir J. Hotson In July, craft was not seriously damaged annum subject to Income-tax." fring at him with a revolver, has by her dive under the ice pack. been sentenced to eight years' rigorous imprisonment, Reuter message from Paona.

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The Nautilus is undergoing re- - saya A pairs at Longyear City to the slight damage received under, the ice, before departing for America. The members of the expedition are completely satisfied with their experiments with scientific apparatus, especially their gyro compass.Reuter

Authority and discipline must be upheld, The prestige of the University and similar institu- tions, must be maintained and not dragged in the gutter. To cer- tain persons with sensitive tem-Conditional Wills, peraments and weak constitu-

Mr. John Silver Clyde Road, Addiscombe, Croydon, seed potato tions the getting of a forced cold merchant and bee farmer, who left bath or being locked up in a coal £2,854, with net personalty £2,355, room is far beyond a joke. It is directed that on the docoase of his At the Central Magistracy yester. wife two-thirds of certain moneys day afternoon Mr. Williams com fortunate that as we are told should go to his song Cecil Hermitted for trial at the next Assizes usually the victim submits bert, John Marshall and William Kong: Sze-ylk and Leo Artur D'A. without any struggle and that and one-third placed on deposit at Guimaraes on two charges in con- ends the matter." In the pre- the Midland Bank for a period of nection with the alleged $7,000 twenty years, and then divided banknote fraud, 1 which the sent case we are further told that between his five grandsons. vletim was Wong Topo, editor of one of the raggers got his fingers・・ "Provided they have never bean thỏ Tsun Wan Yat Fo. Proceedings between the victim's teeth, the vaccinated with any form of vac- were, commenced in regard to the victim refusing to let go, with cine lymph, nor innoculated with fresh charges against Guimaraes.

any vaccine toxia or serum-have the result that the raggers had not partaken of intoxicating liquor

A Briton named Donald Clark, to choke him (sic!) in order to containing alcohol as a beverage eighteen years of age, was shot make him open lui mouth and ra have not contracted the pernicious dead under terrible circumstances and injurious habit of smoking on the Bombay-Sharanpur, mall lease the fingers." The tables

¡tobacco."

train carly this morning. It ap seem to have been turned to a The possible beneficiaries may pears that Clark entered a first- certain extent on the bullies and, find the restrictions ickeome, but class compartment in which Lieut.

FOREIGN OFFICE RECEPTION.

Rugby, Yesterday. Lord Reading, Foreign Secretary, received at the Foreign Office this afternoon, the Foreign Ministers and Charge d'Affaires in London. 'British Wireless Service.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mal" of.

September 10, 1941)

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Today's dollur is worth 2/8%.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University, accompanied by Lady Brunyate, luft the Colony yester day by the as. Tonye Maru on his : educational mission to Peking and. North Chine.

Sir William will utland. In his

official capacity the Peking Union Medical Conference, and at the Con- forence diner to be held on Sep- tember 17 he will reply to the toast of education in South China: On leaving Peking he will visit among other places Hankow and Wuchang, Crown land in Kowloon City and which are centres for the Hong

NEWS IN ADVTS.

in consequence, we are asked to they are less likely to cause real Sheeltan, who was involved in an Cheung Sha Wan ls to be auctioned Kong Matriculation and Local: believe that it was an "insight inconvenience than the stipulation attack, while in a train, last July, at the P.W.D. on September 14, De Examinations. In Shanghai het

fcant

affair."

It is not our place to approve

or disapprove of the subsequent

action taken by the

authorities as the result of the

will preside at a conference of head masters of the schools that During a fight with another man present candidates for the Hong

Imposed upon his hair by a wealthy was sleeping. Sheehan, It Is talis on page 8. Austrian army officar, who Gled alleged, was awakened by the aud same years before the war. Be der Entry of Clark, and fearing lieving that half the ills of the another murderous attack fired his world wore caused by 188spapers, refolver thrice, shows hitting the at 294 Temple Street yesterday, Kons Local

Wong Chee kau, (22), received in Sir William is expected to return the old gentleman left, all his young Briton with fatal resultaries to his head and was removed to the Colony by the end of Octo

possessions, to his nephew on con-

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'cabled Reuter yesterday from Laho

to the wor Van Hospital" berja