1932-06-25 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1932.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Shock For Shanghai" Trade ANCIENT CASTLE TO ONE IN SIX ARE

Unionism'

Telephone Co's Action Meets With Approval

- SIDELIGHTS ON

THE AGITATOR

ROMANCE OF THE HARDOON MILLIONS,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Jane 18.

A crushing blow has been administered to trade unionism of the

SERVE AS SCHOOL.

Girls from Abroad to Study German. SCENES OF ROMANCE.

Meissen, Saxony, American co-eds soon will be go- Ing to classes in romantic old Siebereichen "castle, which is being. converted into a college by Baroness Monika von Miltitz, its owner.

DIVORCED.

Marriage Statistic” in America:

(YEAR THE WORST.

Depression Reduces Number of Divorces.

WOMAN PRISON CHIEF

Woman Director of Gaols. WOMAN DIRECTOR OF GAOLS,

London, May 27. Senorita Victoria Kent, the woman director of Spanish prisons, who is of British descent, denied to-day that she is resigning her, post.

It had been reported that ber The fourth year of marriage is resignation followed a storm of Classes began in March, but by the most common for divorce. This, criticism that she was "toq tender next Autumn accommodations will at any rate, is one of the state to the prisoners; but over the tele. "Statistical phone to-day. Senorita Kent said be complete for a maximum number ments contained in

Analysis of “Américan Divorce," to an Evening Standard represen of students.

just published by the Columbia tative: designed University Press. -

"My humanitarian methods do It declares that divorce in the not please everyone, and naturally United States declined slightly in there are people who would wel

The curriculum is

American primarily for

women

Shanghai brand by the dignified, but incisive, reply transmitted by desiring to, teach German, but it the "depression years"-1930 and come my resignation. But at the

the Telephone Company to the unreasonable and extravagant de mands of the striking mechanics.

tion.

Credulous Chinese.

at

women, and

Includes preparatory courses for 1991-from the 201,468 total in the moment I have not taken the step, other professions calling for a "boom" year 1929,

and I see no prospect of my doing. At the 1929, rate, one divorce so in the immediate future. Whilst the Company categorically repudiates the suggestion knowledge of the German language.

every two minutes was granted in Entrance requirements are

"I have instituted many prison that it contemplates the employment of White Russians to supplant

the country. The decline in 1930 reforms which are at the moment two years of study in an was 10,000 cases, states the mono- the subject of considerable critic-| Chinese, it states with equal emphasis that the Union cannot be re-least

university or college.graph. Complete figures are not ism; but I think I have the back- cognised and the workers are asked to return on the basis that any American

ing of the majority of the people, One la Biz. legitimate grievans they might have will receive due considera-The college is under the personal available for 1981.

direction of the Baroness, who has

who feel that we are more likely More than.. one in every six to reform prisoners by humane engaged an impressive faculty. American marriagea gada in treatment than by brutality.

Siebeneichen, or "Seven Oaks" divorces directly affecting more That is as far as the Company

castle, is picturesquely situated on than 500,000 men,

Rebuilding Prisons. But this is not the most dis-an eminence in the countryside near children every year. This country "I have been trying to raise is prepared to go and its deci- sion is hailed by those represent tinctive or disquieting feature of Meissen, where famous Dresden had the highest divorce rate in the money to sweep away the old in- Chinėse labour troubles. That china is made. Dresden is about an world, and has had for. a hundred sanitary prison system and rebuild ing the beat thought in the com- lies in the ease with which the hour from Meissen.

years. The fourth year of mar-it on a scientific basis be incited - not munity, both foreign and Chin- workers can

The Arst historical mention of riage was found the most common' "I have not been too gentle with

was made in 1994, for divorce:

the prisoners. I can be firm and ese, as eminently practical, even necessarily consciously to use Siebeneichen

states extremely energetic when I want." thought it may entail some loss the strike weapon for furthering The present castle, incorporating In addition, the writer

the private political ends of remains of an older Gothic one, was that desertion, popularly known as Senorita Kent is Irish by birth their mentors. By their habit built in the 1500's by Ernst von "the poor man's divorce," rivals and a niece of Mr. R. Kent, mem- of pandering to labour for Miltitz, marshal of the Saxon court. divorce in frequency of occurrence, bor of the Irish Free State Far- An atmosphere of cloistra) tran- From 1887 to 1929 divorces in-llament for East Cork. Two of political motives, their willing- ness to use. labour 83 a quility now pervades the

old creased about 2,000 per cent, in the her uncles were killed during tha political weapon, these men are fortress. The grounds where United States, while the population 1916 fighting in Ireland. only creating, in fact have al- knights once matched

their grew approximately 300 per cent.] A few months ago Senorita

and convenience for some time. but not all of the time, as would be the case if the Company capl- talated to the coercion of the

workers.

Those workers who were guil-ready created, a rud for their own strength in tourneys are a beautiful and marriages around 400 per cent. Kent's policy was blamed for an backs. It will be the story of park of old trees. Ivy creepers says the survey, which covers the outbreak in Madrid gaol, where cover the walls and the battlements Government divorce records from prisoners demanded that their the students all over again.

The forces that are used are grass grown.

the Civil War to the present time. meals should be cooked by a first- against others can be as easily

The Increase over the period has class chef. She was the first) been from a total of about 10,000 woman to practise law in Spain. used, and will be used, against the powers that be.

ty of deliberate sabotage and wanton damage to the Company's machinery are not to be taken back in any event and this will exert a good moral effect on the workers of other public utility concerns who will thus be taught that resort to hooliganism does not pay in the final analysis.

Seeking the Source.

This is a

The best brains among the Shanghai Municipal Police jare now engaged in tracking down the red source of the labour agitation which as latterly been disturbing this city. type of ne'er-do-well among the Chinese riff-raff who thrives on turmoil and disorder just as the bootlegger in the United States finds not a little profit in prohi- bition.

These loafes and bad charac- ters in Shanghai, are as averse to seeing a prolonged era of indus- trial pence here as the "moon- shiners" of America would hate to see the Eighteenth Amend ment erased from the Statute Book. The professional agitator undoubtedly does exist here. His technique is simple. He merely exploits whatever

Robespierre and Danton met with their downfall by the instru- ments of their own creation. It is taking Nanking a long time to appreciate the lesson of this in- controvertible historical fact.

THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE in 1867.

NEXT JAMBOREE.

Leader Appointed.

Very definite steps are being

Drink and Desertion,

are

At that rate of increase, the writer estimates that by 1965, 51 per cent. of American marriages will be ending in divorce...

Desertion and drunkennesu taken to ensure the adequate repre- The Hardoon Case. sentation of Great Britain at the given as the major causes for Apart from strikes and politics, next World Jamboree, to be held at divorce, Of the 9 per cent of wronged wives who demanded Shanghai has been following with Goddollo in Hungary in 1988. not a little interest the legal A Committee has been appointed alimony about 6 per cent. obtained battle for the possession of the to deal with the matter, consisting it in the period under review,-- Hardoon millions in H.M. Su of Mr. Hubert Martin, C.B.E., the preme Court. Day after day has International Commissioner, been spent in the spinning of P. D. Power, the Headquarters Com- long, legal arguments relative to missioner for Scouts, Lieut-Colonel questions of what constitutes G. Walton, O.B.E. Headquarters legal marriage, domicile, status Commissioner for Rover Scouts, and of British subjects and British Brigadier-General, E. G. Godfrey- protected citizens, rights of suc- Faussett, C.B., C.M.G., F.S.A,! cession to property under Jewish Headquarters Commissioner. for and Iraquian laws, et, etc. Training. Brig. General Godfrey- This is not the place to com- Faussett, who, as Camp Chief of the ment on the merits or demerits great Jamboree at Birkenhead in

Mr.

SODOM: AND GOMORRAH.

Pillar That May Be

Lot's Wife..

MISS BETH BERI. ·

Dancer at the King's Theatre.

Miss Beth Beri, who is opening. a limited engagement at the King'a Theatre on Sunday, June 26, is one. of the most widely known dancers, Įnot only in America but through-

out the capitals of Europe..

During her last tour of the Con-¦ tinent, Miss. Beri appeared at the Coliseum, the Kit Kat Club and at the Plecadilly in London, where she was repeatedly asked to extend her engagements there. In Rome, the danseuse was requested to Sodom and Gomorrah were ut.make a special appearance before

London.

of the respective parties involv-1929, was largely responsible for theterly destroyed by a rain of fire Crown Prince Umberto. ed in a case which is sub judice. great success of the Jamboree, hand brimstone because of their Dancing since she was thirteen; That is better left to the Court been appointed Leader of the Bri- great wickedness, according to the years of age. Miss Beri had the to determine. But it would be tigh Contingent at the World Rover Biblical story. Recent archaeologi- leading roles in "Ziegfeld's permissible, and not uninteresting Moot at Kanderstek last year.

cal excavations on the site of these Folles" three consecutive seasons to give a sketchy pen portrait of the late Mr. Silas Aaron been asked for five divisions of 525 Dead Sea in Palestine, which have ring with Eddie Cantor in "Kid Tentatively accommodation has twin cities by the shores of the on Broadway in New York, star- Hardoon, whose vast wealth is from the British Empire, making a been made by Father Mallon, of Boots." In addition, the dancer the subject-matter of the present total of 2,625.

The Scouts will be the Biblical Pontifical Institute of played the leading role in the dispute.

thoroughly mixed"

both in the Jerusalem; have confirmed this popular "Rose Narle." Romantic Career.

divisions and in the camp. Several account. In striking fashion.

Miss Bari Is bringing to Hong The late Mr. Hardoon started areas will send more than one Troop The whole four cities of the Kouga brilliant repertoire of un- discontent life in a small way as a godown of 35 Scouts and these will be die plain" have now been identified, usually wide range, the numbers there may be among workers keeper for one of the Sassoon tributed among different divisions. and the alte te dominated by of which will include the native. for his own personal ends and firms and he himself used to say The divisions will again be placed Hount Nebo, from which Moses danses of Spain and Hungary, the reaps a profit from union funds that his first earnings were only in separate sub-camps. Thus the viewed the Promised Land: In lighter, rhumbas of old, Caba and while the workers and their $25 per month. The sight of Hungarian Scout's desire that there new report on this season's work several captivating interpretations families are deprived of their opium chests being moved in and should be good flowship between le stated that undebted evidence of her own compositions. Of livelihood for the duration of a out of Sassoon godowns, was the various national contingents has been found that "two sister these, her "Wan Dance" is one of familiar one to him. He dabbled will be greatly helped. The areas towns stood side by side." the most appealing, the soft grace Agitators Technique.

a little on his own in that busi-which are entitled to send more than Examination has shown that and rhythm of the dance being He has a large and very ignor-ness, with profit to himself. He one complete Troop are London, 7; these two towns were contemporary belghened by the sweep of a superb ant population to play on, and made on these little transactions Scotland, 6: Yorkshire, West for each show the same civilisa-fan the largest ever carried by a with unfailing regularity he and then became interested in Riding 4% 8.E. Lancashire 8; tion. The pottery found belongs to dancer. makes the people his ready property.. Everything he had Keat, Wales, S.WLancashire and the two periods Neolithic and dupes. His technique, as afore- touched from them onward was Surrey, 2 each. There will be Early Bronze and would thus x 1. Bolero Overture said, is simple.

transformed into gold,

several more areas with additional the limits of occupation front prior The agitator organises the It was his firm belief that Mrs. Patroli. P

to 2,500 BC down to not later workers of some particular in- Hardoon had brought him luck One Bover Crew, of the standard than 2,100 B.C. dustry into some kind of union, and good fortune and he had al-organisation of 25 will be formed Completely Destroyed. instigates them into making im-ways regarded her as his masin een division to be at the disposal At the latter date the towns had possibly large demands for bettor cot.

pop for the Leader of the division-for beenturcompletělyly destroyed. by Soliloquy conditions, gets himself appoint When he died, he left an ea-achilight services as may be re- Aro and the alte had never been

tate which is reliably assessed at quired This will give a total of reoccupied Traces of violent con- 5. Solo anything from Tls. 70,000,000 to 180 Rover Scouts, which in Begrations were found layers of Tis. 100,000,000/1001

fair proportion to the total ather succeeded by mud and debris.amaz

Bone; and flat fúplements WATU found over all the wite. Ons kun-

strike.

ed a negotiator, and then, in the role of dishonest broker, sells his followers to the other side, He runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds, just as there

The late Mr. Henry Lester-left Tis. 30,000,000.

are Russians in the espionage Like Mr. Lester, Mr. Har service of the Far East who are was an old-fashioned sknown to apy with equal impar.dressed simply,, wag tiality on the doings of both Reus diamond" in conve ard Whiter and get paid by both | diadained to use sides for their labourat

It comes, In effect, to black

mail, which employers have paid

as being, Innitoly ~

the loss entailed in

strike.". The #Jel

than

his office on the.

his building, prof

his legs up to the He was

Hungarian Headquarte told thair Scouts," "If you

Recept

been fou

Programme.

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Miss Bath Beri

8. Piano Solo

Olga Island

Mias. Beth Berl;

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6. Fan, Dan

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