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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933.

PROTECTION OF

THE CHINA MAIL

When Grau Made Truce That Failed

CHILDREN.

Yesterday's Meeting Of

Local S.P.C.C.

GOVERNOR'S APPEAL

Presiding at a meeting of the Hong Kong Society for the Protec- tion of Children at St. John's,

HLA Cathedral Hall yesterday. Excellency the Governor, Sir Wil-, liam Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.. made a strong appeal for public support.

A feature of the Society's report was the decrease in cases of cruelty to children.

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Sir Shouson Chow, President of the Society, stressed the need of ex- tending the Society's branches into Kowloon, where, he said, it impossible for well-to-do people to imagine the condition of those who supported themselves and families on $4 a month.

their

With His Excellency at the meet- ing were Lady Peel, the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, President, the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., chairman of the Executive Committee, the Hon. Mr. T. X. Chau, vice-chair- man; the Hon. Dr. R. 1.Kotewall, C.M.G.: the Hon. Dr. S., W. Te'o. C.B.E., the Ven. Dean Swann, Mrs. C. G. Alabaster, Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, the Hon. Director; Messrs. F. H. Loseby, M. K. La, Kwok Sễu au, J. Barrow, A. McKellar, and G. P. de Martin; Dr. Hunter, Miss Shing Tak-hing, and Mr. and Mrs. E. P. H. Lang.

KING'S THEATRE.

Sancian Island Film To Be Shown.

MISS JEAN ARMSTRONG'S TALK

ON GOA MIRACLES.

of St. Francis Xavier in Gos,

Miss Jean Armstrong will lec-

President Gran San Martin (seated) is here shown as while Colonel Batista, Array leader, looka on Her- he received a pledge of loyalty frean Juan Blas Hernandes failed to keep the pledge and he is reported nandes, Cuba's perennial rebel, only a few weeks ago, among the killed in the latest abortive revolă,500

News In Brief.

QUEEN OF HEARTS

Successful Opening Performance.

At last night's meeting of the Manuk Lodger of the Theosophical, Society Mr. W. C. Felshow, the Vice President addressed the members on "Personality and Individuality," In the absence of the President of the Lodge, the chair was taken by Mr. John Russell, Presidential the work of writing and producing|

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CHILDREN'S PANTOMIME AT HELENA MAY INSTITUTE

Congratulations are due to Mrs. Womack and Mr Onear Eager for

LITERARY NOTES

REMINISCENCES OF FAMOUS ACTOR

George Grossmith's Life Story.

CONVERSATIONAL BOOK

Agent for China of the Society. the charming Children's Pantomimè G. G. Reminiscences, by George "Queen of Hearts," which had a Grossmith. (Hutchinson, 188.) These pages contain what Mr. At an inquest opened yesterday most successful premiere, attended by Mr. Wynne-Jones, sitting as by crowds of delighted children, Grossmith calls "a few random re-

collections in the career of a con-| Coroner, at the Kowloon Magis-at the Helena May Institute,

Mrs. Womack has taken the fessed hedonist." That is charming tracy yesterday into the death of a On Sunday morning, at 11 o'clock Chinese boy of 14, LI Shu-chan, story of the Queen of Hearts, an self-depreciation. Few mere hed- sharp, the pleturas taken of the

who died from a ruptured spleen,told in the nursery rhyme, and ex-[onists would care to face the life pilgrimage to Sapcian Island last on the evening of December 1, it panded It, with a wealth of local of hard and unrelenting work that Saturday will be screened at

the

was alleged that about F.30 the same touches, into a pantomime plot of is described here,

We all know Mr. Grossmith's air King's Theatre, together with the day he had been assaulted by an the real kind such as we have all film of the exposition of the body Indian constable. Kartar Singh, known as children in the past. of never having dóné a day's work

like The pantomime was, ain his life, his air of what a Christmas pudding,, full of delight- French newspaper called "infiu-| ture and describe, both events. Two Chinese larry-drivera, Wong ful things, and it is difficult to say ential elegance," but that "veneer The film of the scenes at San-Pat and Chan Chung, were fined $10 which, if any, preponderated in in on solid stuff, His "elegance" cian Island is remarkably clear and each at the Central Police Court such an excellent mixture. Singing, is what seems most' to have im2 ) should prove of great interest both this morning, on pleading guilty to acting and dancing alike 'were of pressed the French: "The most to the pilgrims themselves and speeding in Shaukiwan Road. They a high standard, the last being authentic representative of British paper those who were unable to accom-were stated to have been travelling largely in the capable hands of elegance" another Paris pany them.

at over 26 miles an hour when seen Mien Violet Capell, some of whose called him.

pupils performed charmingly- Here we are given the tale of the The pleture of the Saint's body by the traffic officer.

Little Miss Pauline Baxter gave a toil which Hes behind the elegant | as it appears to-day is the first- photograph ever taken of it. The Liu Ching Siu, nged 22, the wife clever impersonation of a cabaret facade, the toll which led from a state of the body will be described of a Shantung constable at the Up. dancer.

£1 a week job, through a brilliant by Miss Armstrong, who both saw per Level Police Station, attempted i The pantomime is to be repeat-series of Gaiety successes, to the and touched it in Goa on December to commit suicide at 10 Leung Yijed this afternoon *20, 1981.

Fong Lane at 6 o'clock yesterday at the same hour. These will be one screening only morning by hanging herself from of the pictures.

STARTING TIMES FOR FANLING.

Sunday's Golf Pairings.

and to-morrow ponition Grassmith holds to-day, Anyone who is interested in the theatre during the last half cen- tary will find many memories stir-

the ceiling. She was cut down and OPIUM SMUGGLING red by Mr. Grossmith's agreeable,

taken to the Government Civil Hos pital.

Li Sun, aged 62, a deaf-mute, who was walking on the railway lines near No. 23 Railway Bridge, Tulpo,

Two Chinese Offenders Heavily Fined.

A fine of $5,000, In default ons was struck from behind by a fast year's hard labour was imposed on goods train at about 11.45 am.. ye- Chinese, Chan Tao-fung, by Mr. terday and killed. The train was E. W. Hamilton at the Central Po- travelling from Talpo to Shatin at lice Court this morning for possez- The following are the Royal the time of the accident. Hong Kong Golf Club starting

times for Fanling on Sunday:-

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Mr. Peter Manniche, Principal of the International People's College,

N. L. Smith K. B. Morrison, Denmark, will speak at the Helenu

T. R. Chassels F. Lobel, May Institute at. 5.30 p.m. on

G. C. Worrall R. L Cher-Wednesday, January 10, on the Folk

riit.

H. Hampton A. McKellar. High Schools of Denmark and the

H. H. Pethick L. H. Geare, International People's College.

T. A. Pearce F. D. Hunter:

F. Robinson P, S. Grant. 14

The prize-giving at the Cheung Hodges

Bottomley A. W. Chau Government School will take S. A Sleap R 8. Johnson, place on Thursday, December 21, at *10.12 E. W. Greena J. W, Mayhew. 3 p.m. The prizes will be distri-

A. D. Brawn D. Davis. buted by Mrs. P. E. Barker, M.A. A. E. Thompson T. H. A. McCarthy

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G. F. Rees H. Williamson. day morning with a crew of 17 on

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Chang Yu, Li Ling-fong," Kwan|

sion of 48 taels of prepared oplum.

The contraband was stated to have been concealed between the false sides of a wooden trunk.

The defendant was arrested when leaving" the s.a. Kwong, Fook Cheong at 2 o'clock this morning.

・-Smuggler Caught.""

conversational book

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AN INDIAN LOOKS

AT OXFORD.

Naive Study By Newcomer,

The Pulse of Oxford. By D, F. Karaka. With an introduction by Robert Bernays, M.P. [!

***(Dent. 2s. 6d.) Oxford is notoriously dimcult to dissect Mr. Karaka, an Indian still in stath pupillari, attempts to Described as a smuggler, another do ao in a book of little more than Chinese, Pan Yuin, was fined $3," pamphlet length. The roles play- 000, 'in default one year's hard, ined by the Union, the political bour, for possession of 25 faels of clubs, Buchmanism and eleven o'clock coffee in the life of the prepared, splum,

Revenue Oficer Grimmitt said University are examined in turn. that the opium was tied around the Mr. Haraka's style, la naive and his defendant's waist and legs.

He study of world in little" is not was arrested on the Bol On whart, deep one. His chapter on the

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G. M. Bryden. had previous police records, were Valen convicted by Mr. Balfour at the

Near Completion.

Union, however, I interesting, Here he writes with authority, an the is the society's present librarian," and he may be its first Indian presidente de A-The picture he draws will do much to explain the attitude of = large number of its members, that voted for the notorious paclist motion; and some happily chosen quotations from recent speeches

D. L. Prophet H. H. Baddow, Central Magistracy this morning on

Calro 11:16D H. Blaka M. L. Turner, charge of begging at the Central Forty yilingen will be submerged fini

Dovey B. Brent cars is completed, Calf month, The Market yesterday) The frat two when the heightening of the Aswan

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