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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931.

TIGER HUNTING IN BURMA

VILLAGE METHODS OF

HUNDREDS KILLED ANNUALLY

Poisoned Arrows, Traps, and Muzzle-Loaders.

gamely to the last, sinks ground and dies.

to the

shout

The

THE

CHINA MAIL.

VICTORIA BRITISH UNRULE

SCHOOL.

Last Prize Distribution Ceremony.

PUPILS' ENTERTAINMENT.

STUDENTS THE

IN CHINA.

Demanded by Nanking Government.

ACTION DETRIMENTAL.

BAR AND ITS HISTORY.

Lawyers' Aid to Poor Persons.

JUDGES LONG AGO.

"The bar yesterday and to-day" was the subject which the Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Molony, ilt, chose for a lecture to the Irish Literary Society.

Nanking, Friday, The last prize-giving ceremony" before the closing down of the Vie Severe strictures against unruly toria British School, Causeway students are made by the National Bay. took place in the Sailors' and Government in an official mandato Soldiers' Home, Wanchai, last even-issued last night following upon

the student disturbances here ves sketch of the history of the Bar Sir Thomas began with a short ing.

Mrs. W. T. Southern gave away terday.

Tigers abound in many parts of the vast jungles of Barma. Their

At once the victors raise a deprecations among the village`

of triumph. In no time the news the prizes, and amongst those pre- The mandate declares that there in England and Ireland from the century when the cattle are serious; and they are re-has reached the village.

sent was Mr. G. P. de Martin, Diree-after all petitions to be submitted thirteenth

clergy

whom to

to up

then of Education. Both Mrs. to the Government should be in

in practice

the courts of garded as vermin to be destroyed whole population turns out with tor

drums and musical instruments. Southors and Mr. de Martin xwriting and be transmitted through

justice had been confined. by fair means or foul.

and the return of the hunters with pressed regret that the school was, the competent. local administrative the body stung on a pole, is a closing down.

authorities pr school presidents were gradually supplanted by pro-

No organized body of | fessional students of law, whỵ," triumphal march.

sceking for a permanent home and persons, whether students or nen-habitation, found it in the Temple hers of other-civic-organization and neighbouring Inns. will hereafter be allowed to pro ceed here for the purpose of pre- senting petitions.

of sume

buffalo is missing. In the morning the villagers scour the jungle in A.half-eaten værease search of H. Ja found, and an examination of this shows the marauder to be n Liger. The villagers so not take this affront without retaliating.

Poisoned Arrows,

A

When the

Mrs. Southoru said that she was concerned.

Before

Health

several vise with the Sergeants at Law,!

The villagers' arms are bows and arrows, spears, and an occasional muzzle lunder... With these they

The skiming is at anbe begun sure that the pupils of the V.B.S. carry - perpetual warfare with and an interested-crowd watches would be a credit to any school to the tigers and other carnivora of the proceedings. The claws, heart, which they were sent, while Mr. de

Sir Thomas quoted Sir John: their jungles. The following are teeth and various parts are in great Martin congratulated the school on

Fortescue, who became in 1442 | brief sketches

of their demand and give rise to many dis- the excellent work it had done.

Chief Justice of the King's Bench, When the; putes for possession. methods.

A Comedy.

Nanking Swarmed.

to show how judges and sergeants | Since the Japanese occupation of "One" evening-when-the-auttle are.rkin is removed it is roughly-éured,

and then either kept as a trophy]

the prite-giving the Shenyang (Mukden), the mandate and counsel lived in the fifteenth collected for the night, a cow or a

century, "You are to know fur- begins. people in the various taken into the township head-jpupils presented an enjoyabila pro-f

First localities, incited by "righteous in-ther," says Sir John, "that the quarters and the Government re-gramme of entertainment.

came a comedy entitled "The But-dignation," have come here for the Judges of England do not sit in ward claimed.

cher, the Baker, and the Candle-purpose of petitioning the Govern the King's Courts above thres hows stick Maker, by classes 7 and ment, the majority of such neeight in the morning till eleven. hours in the day, this is, from In the absence of guns,

lioner being students. While ther with poisoned arrows are often set ; then was presented a lover & kill. The poison used is a hay. "The Road to Happiness," by patriotism is

The Courts are not opeù in the highly praiseworthy afternoon.

The sultera of the If they possess a muzzl-bader, black substanre and is smeared larges 9 and 10, and finally they must realise that their action

Christmas play called "Good Tid is detrimental.

Court betake themselves to the it is set over the Rill in such a way over the heat of the arrow.

In impe." by classes 7,8, and 9. int the animal returning the fol- scratch from the latter will prove this play the Christmas carols. "The thousands of students are assemand other their counsel, about their

The mere fact that

pervise, and other places, to ad-

lowing night to continue its meal. fatal in a few hours.

First Nowell," "While Shepherds bled in Nanking wasting their valu will release a trip-wire and Gre the arrow has been discharged a care-

affairs. The Judges when they and neglecting their gum et itself.

have Watchers remain ful search is made for blood marks. Watched," and "Hark the Heraldable time

studies is in itself highly deplor-spend the rest of the day in the

taken When these are found some time Angels Sing," were rendered.

their refreshments" within hearing, and should the re-

All three items were well per- able. is allowed to clapse before the trail port of the gun he heard, at man

What is more, however, some of study of the laws, reading of the daybreak to recoinoltre is followed, to give the poison time formed and reflected credit on the

when the children as well as the teachers them have been guilty of unruly Hoog at

Holy Scriptures, and other in- and ascertain the result. He ap- to

nocent amusements, at their proaches with great caution he villagers finally come, up to wound. Who trained them. Several of the genduct and action which amount cause if the tiger is wounded heed animal it is either dead or dying, hildren who were originally chose to violation of the law and order pleasure: it seems rather a life of

for the casts could not perform on at the State.

contemplation than of much ae- runs considerable risk, He may and easily fished off.

tion: their time is spent in this Sometimes it is the villagers who account of illness and their places'

Students Unruly, find the tiger dead or wounded; ar

In this connection, the mandate

manner, free from care and world; |ly avocations, the bullet may have missed. If it make the first move. Tigers often were taken by other children at is wounded he returns for assist-follow fairly regular beats, and bort uelice and all the substitutes charges certain elements of the found that any of them has been

Nor was it evtř) In this students with having commandeer ance, and the able-bolied men of when one of these is known the acquitted themselves well.

a trap beside it Connectiom special mention must be ed rolling stock, expelled ordinary And it has been observed, as an the village turn ou with spears villagers build

There are various designs of traps made of Master Eric Stone who was passengers, assaulting station mas and dispatch it.

but most of them work on the prin- led upon to take the place offers and destroying the property of in the first sketch and as the reader thus violated law and order and in the Christmas play.

He had

disrupted communications, the ly two rehearsala and curried his mandate alleges. parts well

After their arrival in Nanking, The report of the acting hend the students have also committed mistress, Miss J. W. Buckwell, was improper actions and made impro- read by Mr. de Martin.

per utterances, thereby, creating al Before calling Mrs. Southern to general slate of unrest. give away the prizes, Mr. de Mastin Continuing, the mundate points.

A Desperate Business.

take fet, Thus

Finishing off a wounded tiger is /iple of a mouse trap, and are bag. Master Billy Pryde as the butcher! Government railways. They have

1

ed with

a young calf or a goat a desperately dangers business, The tiger, attracted by the calling and calls for considerable courage. of the terrified ball, springs into Armed with nothing but spears the the trap and seizes it. In doing villagers approtich in a compact it releases a heavy weight which body. Their safety Rea in kemping fall and rushes it. together and balding their ground Should when the tiger charges. their nerve fall and they scatter at the critical moment, it almost cer- tainly will mean deall for one of them.

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plunging their @pears throat and kinks.

2.

Miss Pauline Ewing

The Prize List.

i with the duties of such officials.

Detrimental, Action.

especial

corrupted with gifts, or bribes.

dispensation of Pro- vidence, that they have been happy in leaving behind them immediate descendants in a right line. "Thus is the man blessed that fearth the Lord"."

An Excellent Opinion, continued Sir Thomas, seemed to These fifteenth century judges,

have had an excellent opinion ofi themselves and to have been well

· Crushing Traps Que kind of trap is wedge shap ed; the and corresponding with thanked her for honouring the nut that the present diplomatic satisfied with the law they ad-

the wedge. the bottom of

being school with her presence and also situation calls for the exercise of ministered. The sides are made of stout welcomed back from Home leave the highest degree of vigilance on

Sir Thomas paid a tribute to thei most excellent and meritorious Silently the party creeps for. takes driven well into the ground. Mrs. E. M. Clark, the Head Mis-, the part of the Government!

The roof consists of heavy logs tress.

work which was being done quiet! ward, straining eyes and ears for

authorities. By insisting uponly and unobtrusively by both any sign or sound of movement with ore end resting on the ground

After the distribution of prizes, being received in person by leading branches of the legal profession in ahead. Suddenly there is the, 29posite the opening. The bait is

officials, the peti deep thraly rear of a wounded secured near the sack of the trap. Mrs. Southorn, was presented with Government

England, in providing legal aid for poor persons. The Society of ouri tiger, at close quarters the most: When it is seized the whole roof beautiful bouquet of flowers by tioner have seriously interfered

Lady of Good Counsel, with which sounds in the falls in and crushes the intruder. terrifying af all

Another pattern' consists of a

he was connected, although Catho jungle. At the same instant the

Fellowing are the prize-winners: It is thus obvious that, however, lie in its origin and membership, grass in front parts and like a dull cage with a small entrance, above

Class 7. Scholarship gained by laudatory their motives may be existed for the benefit of all poor! red flash the tiger is on them. The Which is suspended a heavy icg.

On leaping in, the tiger lands with Jean Eving, and first prize for the action of the petitioners is not persons without reference to their speed of a charging tiger is ns-

its fore-paws on a platform. This examination. Second prize, for only futile as a means of national religious faith, and had acted in tounding if their nerve fails now

and releases the log, best all-round work throughout the salvation, but may even prove de- over 4,000 cases since its establish- they are lost. But the bontere are gives way

trimental to the biterests of the ment in 1926. The Bentham jungle born and hired. Instinctive which Falls and breaks the tiger's year, Billy Pryde.

Class 8. 1, Mona Shand.

nation.'

Society under the presidency of ly they crouch and stiffen and the back.

Class 9. Once, I remember, a tiger enter-

Division 1, Peggie

Moreover, the people's right of Lord Cecil, which is undenomina- charging animal is received upon a

petition consists merely in the sub-tional in its character, aimed at line of steady spear points. In an ed the trap and killed the bait, a flamer. Division 2, Klaus May.

The log was, however, slow Class 10. instant the villagers, have sur-goat.

1. Beryl Hyne, 2, Pru- mission of views to the Government doing equally good work, and both

for consideration. It is therefore societies worked in close co-opera-i rounded their tury and are in falling and the tiger escaped. Eine Strange, 3, Kenneth Stone,

into its It must have been considerably Other prizes were handed to the hereby ordered that hereafter, alltion to realise the wish which Lord

juniors Pauline students and civic organisations, Hailsham, Chen alarmed by the crush of the falling following

Lord Chancellor, Vivien Lockhart, Betty which are desirous of submitting expressed at the annual meeting For a few seconds there is a log, as it did not wait to remove Strange,

must of the Bar in 1928: "I should like The tiger the bait. Next morning this was Wadmore, Alma Rugers, Roy Hack-views to the Government, desperate struggle. fights like a fiend, clawing, biting found lying where it had been maan, Muriel Gelling, Irene Pingoet, end such petitions in writing to see the day "oming when just Strange, through the competent local ad-as medicine, administers to all who and snarling. The villagers will felled, with the tiger's tooth marks Jacqueline Kew, Lonel

Sammy Salmon. Alan. Cuteler, ministrative authorities or school need its help for the body, so fn indeed be lucky if at least one of clearly visible in its neck.

Where such sugges every great centre of population then does not carry for the rest of Euch year hundreds of tigers (all Rene Ohl, Arthur Cario and Joan presidents.

tions are actually feasible, the we might see something akin to al his life the marks of those power: victims to the spring guns and Goldsmith.

A special prize was given to Eric Government will not hesitate to legal hospital where the poor fal law or fans. Then over traps of the villagers, but in many.

The people could rely on getting the borne by 'numbers and impaled with areas their numbers show few Stone for helping with the pro-follow and act upon them.

formation of organised bodies for advice and help which they need-į a dozen spears, the tiger, fighting signs of diminishing.

the Other children on the register: purpose of coming to the ed." at the time of the school's closing capital to present petitions is here Sir Thomas sketched briefly how 7. Beryl by strictly prohibited in order that the system of justice worked in ceremony were:-Class Oliver, Terrance Lockhart, Geo-the best interests of the nation may Ireland in his own time and relat They had been told, said the Trey Stone, Dorothy Salmon, Peggy not be compromised:

ed many of his own experiences. speaker, that the cardinal necessity Eccleshall; Class & William Mc-

various Provincial and In 1919, he said, there was a grand for ultimate emancipation, the way Walter. Tom Cochrane, 'John An- Municipal Authorities, school pre-jury resolution at Cork congratu-¡ to eternal peace, was the relinquish-deraon; Class 9, Peter Smith, Alan sidents, as well as responsible lating him: two years later in the ment of all desires. There was no Anderson, Ronald Burnett, Nor-authorities of communication

city police bombs and greater discipline than the disciplineman Coward. Ursula May, Kenny gans should expectully endeavour machine-guns were, needed to pro- of solitary confinement. The Sagala Batley, George McFurran, Geoffroy to dissuade persons from coming tect him. Popularity, reflected Sir monastery consisted of rock caves Warrent Paulino Ewing, lan to the Capital for the purpose of Thomus riefully, is a broken reed. of considerable dimensions supposed Burnett, Esther Elford, Eric Oswick submitting petitions. to have been constructed during the and Johnnie Hyne,

In conclusion, the mandate de- A Buddist institution known ng reign of King Walagambahu. Five

clares that in such a grave national the Sagala Monastery was the sub- Bhikkus under the guidance of a

crisis as the present, the people ject of an address delivered under guru were already living there.

must place implicit,confidence inf the ausples of the Servants of the | Admission was strictly' restricted to

the Government. They must unite

Libson, Yesterday. Buddha Society ́ ́at the Maitriya | Bhikkus between 21 and 40 years of

together and strive, under the Dr. Federick Ehrenfest, ex- Jall Babbulentiya, by Mr. Srl age.

Government's leadership' for the Director of Austrian Creditanstalt, Nissanka recently.

Asked by Dr. Cassius Pereira how

salvation of the nation.-Canton was arrested to stay in Lisbon at the Mr. Ninth said that in the they came to select that spot for the

Sun.

request of the Austrian Govern forest region of the Sabaragamuwa establishment of the monastery, Mr.

ment. Ehrenfest recently has book The case against Chan Wai-fong, Province, hard by the village of Nissanka said that the catabllah- who charged at, the Central-Magis Grantham, sent the giri to je for living in various countries outside He was summoned last Austria. Galapitimada, was n Crowif reserve ment of such a monastery was the tracy, yesterday, with the theft of three months. four hundred acres in extent. In réalisation of one of their great jewellery to the value of $1,308, "Accused's mother-in-law was pre-monta to appear it the Viennese that locality a monastery had been ambitions He conceived the idea property of Cheung Yin-fong, of sent in Court, and stated that she Court to free charges reported to be catablished to he ran in strict con- about five years ago. He gave a No. 3, Man Chung Fong, Wong Nel-was willing to sign a bond for the connected with the issue of cheques 'formity with the rules and regula- description of the climate and the chung, came to a conclusion this girl's good behaviour, but had no uncovered by frauds and fraudulent tions of the Buddhist faith.

morning, when Mr. A. W.. G. H. money..

bankruptcy-Reuter.

MONK'S ROCK CAVE RETREAT.

Discipline of Solitary Confinement.

Shackles of Desire..

(surroundings of the place. ·

Kramme

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The

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