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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934.

LOCAL NEWSRA.F. FLYING BOATS

BREVITIES

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"Talkie Talks" feature will published in to-morrow's issue, and will continue to appear on Fridays.

Two cases of diphtheria and three cases of menigitis were re- ported in the Colony during the 24 hours ending yesterday.

ARRIVE

Last Hop In Flight From Singapore.

ONE PLANE DELAYED BY BAD WEATHER

The three RAF. flying boats, concluded their flight from Sin-

The M.S. Tai Ping Yong, of the gapore to Hong Kong, when they Barber-Wilhelmaen Line will ar-arrived here this afternoon, two rive on May 17 and sail the next machines landing at 1.5 p.m., and day for San Francisco and Boston the third at 2 p.rp., according to yla Panama.

a message from Squadron-Lead- ler C. R. Keary, O.C., at the

...The rainfall in the Colony, dur-R.A.F. Base, Kai Tak.

ing the last 24 hours, ending 10

The delay in the arrival of the

a.m. to-day, was 0.27,inch, totalling third machine was due to the bad, as weather conditions. said Squa- 4.46 inches since January 1, against an average of 2.09 inches. dron-Leader Keary,

The planes are of the Super- Sam Fock, coolie, was admitted marine Southampton, type, and to the Government Civil Hospital belong to the 205th Flying Boat suffering.from the effects of immer-Squadron stationed at Singapore. sion. when he accidently fell into the The machines left lices Sur) sea while working on the waterfront, for Hong Kong on Tuesday morn- ing, but owing to heavy winds, at 7p.m. yesterday.

they had to turn back, the fight An address in Italian on "Thejbeing postponed until Wednesday. A continuation of the unfavour- Life and Work of the Missionaries

in

re-

fn China; was given by the Rev. Jable weather on Wednesday caus- at Ilicos Father Braga at the Jacobeanted the flyers to remain

this morning, Room of the Hong Kong Hotel Sur until 7 a..

when they took off for Hong Kong. yesterday.

The machiner will remain Major General Frank Parker, Hong Kong for over a week, Commander in Chief of the United turning to their base at Singapore States Army in the Philippines, ar-on April 28,

The three machines, the 5-1249. xived in Hong Kong by the steamer) Canton this week on an informal S-1419, and S-3420 left Singapore command visit. He returns 10 Manila 40-on April 2, under the

of Group-Captain S. W. Smith, and stopped at Sibu, South

morrow.

3

Borneo.

While rounding a trend o the for a day.

At Kudat. North Burnco, the Shing Mun Valley Access Road, motor lorry, driven by Wong Wai, next stopping place, the S1419 knocked down Lo Tak, a wurkman, developed engine trouble, necessi who was removed to the Shing Munitating a wait there until a new part was broukht from Singapore. Valley Hospital suffering from legTwo of the planes left Kudat on Injuries.

April 6 for Puerta Princesa, the For being in possession of duti-damaged plane remaining until able tobacco in Queen's Road Cen-the next day..

tral yesterday Li Ling was Aned $20,)

The three flying-boats landed

THE CHINA MAIL.—

Soviet's Red Army Engaged in War Game-

The Red Atiky 61 Bušalk engages in moda artare tanks attacking an "enemy" tranch in foreground." maneuvers to mark celebration of its 10th birthday. Fears of a Japanese invasion have brought the Red This picture, made near Moscow, shows group of Army to high state of effefency. T

LITERÁRY NOTES, “

Mrs. Charles Dickens's Golden Silence

Famous Letters

Letters To Be Made Public Soon

DOMESTIC TROUBLES BARED

(By Walter Dexter.)

Editor of "The Dickensian"

Many years ago I came across a domestic trouble of long

herself unfit for the life she had to lead as my wife," and so on.

Dickens's reply to this was that they must bear their misfortungs, and fight the fight out to the end, as they had their children to' con- sider first of all.

In default two weeks' imprisonment in Manila on April 9, and, accord-/remarkable entry in the diary of and of a sacredly private arrange- by Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen at theing to their schedule, should leave Shirley Brooks, of Punch fame. Itment being made within the know-kens, who appointed another close

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"At length," this letter continues, "within these three weeks, it was auggested to me by Forster, thet even for their sakes, it would surely be better to reconstruct and re-ar- standing range their unhappy home."

So Forster approached Mrs. aledge of his children, without anger friend of her husband's, Mark Central Police Court this morning that port to-morrow 'for Saloma is dated just a little more than

goe and licos Sur, where they will month after the death of Charles or ill-will of hoy kind.

Lemon, to nexgtinte, on her part. Mrs. S. W. Ts'o, wife of the Hon. refuel before leaving for Hong Dickens, and it records, how the

ended with these Mrs. Dickens "gratefully and thank- diarist's wife had that day called on Dr. S. W. Ta', will distribute the Kong on Tuesday.

Mra. Dickens and found her "look.words: "I most dolemnly declare, fully accepted the terms I proposed Thirteen Men On Trip. prizes at the Annual Athletic There are thirteen men aboarding well, and speaking of matters then-and this I do, both in my own to her," he added.

That might have been the end of Sports of St. Stephen's College, the three machines, and one of the with a certain becoming dignity. Is name and in my wife's that all the which will be held at Stanley' on

enable resolved not to allow Forster, or any lately whispered rumours touching the whole unfortunate, matter had objects of the trip is to Saturday afternoon.

inspect other biographer, to allege that she the trouble at which I have glanced, Forster, in writing his "Life of Group-Captain Smith to

And that Dickens," printed both the "Ad the R. A. F. Base here.

did not make D. a happy husband, are abominably false. The summer nclivities of the

Three

commence at p.m.

conviction. :

ron.

EUROPEAN LEAVES

$255,900

1

Commences Saturday.

course and was silent.

Now, fifty-six years after

her

half the total

The address

· North-China Daily News & Herald,' Lid, 17 The Bund, Shangfal

Local Şelling Agents:

Messrs, Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hong Kong.

RITUAL OF NATIVE SAVAGERY.

Story Of Vanishing Island Race..

Malekula:

A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides. By A. Ber- Anard Deacon.

(Routledge) 428.).

ANCIENT MARRIAGE LAWS

Hardships Stressed In New Novel.

A POIGNANT TRAGEDY ::

JustImpediment.” `by M..E.

What strikes one in this account Brothers, provides a welcome re

than any Masonic, celibration, aro solemnly declare that we now dis-the ceremonies that accompany

of the visiting airmen having letters after the birth of her whosoever repeats one of them, af- dress" and the letter which had ap- European Y.MLO:A. Kowloon, will had wartime experience during the ninth child, in which D, writes like ter this denial, will lie se wilfully peared in the New York paper. and as foully as as it is possible for But he did not. He told just so commence on Sunday, April 29, with World War. Group-Captain Smith lover." the first of a series of Band conholds the Order of the British Em-

any false witness to lie, before hea- much of the parting as to leave Although at the time of the ven and earth." certs given by the 1st Bn. Lincoln-pire decoration for his services in separation, twelve years before his

people guessing, and the obvious in shire Regiment. The music, which the air corps; Squadron-Lender K. death, Dickens rushed into print to and however much Dickens was in woman in the case, of which, there These were very strong words, ference was that there was another will be of 90 minutes duration, will B. Lloyd received the Air Force give his version of the matter, Mrs. the right, it was a mad act on his has never been a shred of evidence, Cross, while flying-Lieutenant L Dickens adopted the more dignified part to have rushed into print on 1. King was awarded the Distin-

Charges Related Sentence of two weeks hard

the matter at all. guished Flying Crosa. labour was Imposed on Leung Fuk,

Indeed, a postscript to the letter Group-Captain Smith was for-

But there is no doubt that the unemployed, by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-merly a lieutenant in the artillery death, the spell is broken, and it is wicked slanders on his name had published in America, and signed Fadyen at the Central Police Court of the British army. In 1914 he with the greatest possible interest caused him to suffer a temporary by Dickens's mother-in-law and her this morning for the theft of joined the Royal Air Force and that the public which, for close ou mental derangement. He com-daughter Georgina Hogarth, says: wooden box in Peel Street, yester-

hundred years, hos taken nerved with the air corps in one

municated this statement to nearly "It having been stated to us, in day. Accused had a previous Police France during the World War. He Dickens to its heart, learns that the every important newspaper in the reference to the differences which tives of Malekula, a little-known land, one might even say, 'since. of the everyday lives of the na-turn to England-to Young Eng- of the Royal letters in the British Museum, of country, but only a few troubled to have resulted in the separation of assumed command

Island of the New Hebrides, is the among the incidents of the story, Air Force in the Far East last No- which 60-nearly Pleading guilty to the theft, ofvember. He previously command-number-were written before the Bradbury and Evans, were also the tain statements have been circulated embroiders and complicates the Disraeli as member for Maidstexte publish it. His own publishers, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens, cer- enormous amount of ritual that is the election of Benjamin *88 from a female shop-keeper, Maked the Royal Air Force station at marriage.

proprietors of Punch, and because that such differences are occasioned most ordinary and natural occur in 1837, which was not, by the Ho, living at Tai Wong Street, Chan Kent. This is his first visit to It is all the more important that they refused to publish the "Ad-by circumstances, deeply affecting rences in the communal existence way, when Diersall fist stood for Kim, a former employee of the shop, Hong Kong.

this should be done, as hardly one dress" in that paper, he broke off the moral character of Mr. Dickene, of these simple savagen." Infinite-Parliament as the wrapper was sentenced to three months' hard

of the published letters of Dickens his friendship with its editor, Mark and compromising the reputation ly more elaborate for instance, he author, however, uses the

{states) by My vy labour at the Central Police Court this morning, by Mr. E. W. Ramil- CHINESE "Y" THRIFT to his wife contains those terms of Lemon, and severed all connection and good name of others, we

affection and endearment which we whatsoever with the firm.

election merely for local colours PROGRAMME.

associate with the most intimate let

But this was not the only plece believe such statements. We know marriage, a birth, or other accus her chief theme being the hard- ters of the man who did so much to

of folly: To Arthur Smith, who had that they are not believed by Mrs. Lomed human event in the very ship to individuals caused by cen idealise the hearth and the home. ¡gone to America for the purpose of Dickens, and we pledge óumélve,

The separation of Dickens from arranging a reading tour, for. Dic-on all. occasions, to contradict them Pimitive, routine of their villase/tain rigidities in the old marriage"

I laws. The theme of Jane Eyre? bistory, Tradition rules, indeed, The Thrift Programme, organised his wife after 22 years of married kene, he sent a more detailed letter as entirely destitute of foundation with a heavy hand, and is encracts could be similarly described; and by the Chinese Y.M.C.A., together life, during which ten children were with a covering note to say that be Here then was an entire réfata-ed with innumerable regulations et arvele haye, in fact, as good with the Y.W.C.A., Churches and born, and all save one were surviving was to show it to anyone who wish-tion of any charges that could have and prohibitiolis.EN

} deal of that, émotional febrility Local Estate Of Mr. G. A. schools of Hong Kong starts on at the time, came as a great shocked to do him right or who may have bon levied against Dickens. Yet its Melanesian votaries lead which comes from extrapeclad

* Richardson.

Saturday and will; eonclude" next to everyone except the small inner been misled into doing him wrong.. *-

Only a few months before he died, in very truth the simple life, he just impediment of the Wednesday.

circle of his friends..

1 Unfortunately, this letter, got It was an arrangement of mutual printed in full in the New York Tri-1 heard the late Sir Henry Dickens nearly naked, tilling, the soll, sh Kentish story is marriage with connent, Mrs. Dickens (with an bure much to the indignation of say in public, with deep sincerity, ing and bunting, with pigs and deceased wife's sister, and the au agreed, allowance of £600 per aa-Dickens, and rightly so, for it had that he had found it monkey task to yams as their sole currency and thori gives us a very poigmat who died at 76, Elm Street, Chel wrong Choice of, Vocation". April um) and the eldest son going to not been written with that idea. In 80 through his long life as the sonjcannibalism by no means a dangerzagedy, Bat against the fläck--

letter. sea, England, on January 31, leav-21, 7.30 p.m. Kowloon Chinese of the family remaining at Geds bad lived unappily for many years How must, more difficult it must

lve in a house in London, the rest it, he explained that he and his wife of Charles Dickens.: ing $255,900, has been granted y.M.C.A.

Hill in Kent, which Dickens had No" to Mr. George G. N. Tingon,

Mr. S. F. Lam, Ph.D., "Thrift and lately purchased. Letters of administration to the

had lese In common, and had it not ple girl of twenty-one, daughter of $20,300, estate of the late Mr. Livelihood," April 21, 8 p.m., Chín

The Press of the time took no been for his wife's younger sister, a member of the staff of the same Harry Smith, who died at Sheerese Y.M.C.A., Bridges Street, Interest; but tongues began to wag Georgine, who had devoted herself newspaper on which her husband ness, Kent, on December 9, 1083, Mr. Wm. C, H. Chen, MA, and associated the name of another to his house and children since she worked, when the discovered within have been granted to Mr. D. J. "Thrift and Economic Independ woman with the cause of the part was fifteen years of age, the paria year that she was married to

ence," April 22, 8 pm, Chinese Ihr Dickens was to incensed being would have come about sooner tenkte test above the state in discovered among her husband's

kad, no; powEE Lewis,

to raise herself Other letters of administration.M.C.A., Bridges Street, as fury at the "misrepresentations, MJESTON H

14Consider Thé: Children" Mr. P. Y. Lo, "Personal Thrift most grossly falsë, most monstrous

"Twiith be had fret known her! granted are to Mr. Pedro G. Lo-

papers, after his death in 1989, of work. It might easily have bato in the 18,500 estate of the fand National Development," April and most cruel-Involving not only And here came the strange 'accu-] Both tried hard to

bright few poeme and the MSS, of a short been killed by ita rake-up bila late Lt. Col. Antonio J. G. Lobato, 23, 8 p.m., Chinese Y.M.C.A., Bridgeà me, but innocent personé dear ation "against his wife;the pecu- face of thinga, seldem

story called "La Balamandre.”... long-dead legalism; whereas in» the hus Cher who died at 2, Bua da Baria do Street, tak jauheart and innocent péř

cacter," he says, band"go kway for

It in vividly told little incident deed, its people are so real, that gth

ered in they almost bring the Jegalfüm Bom Parto, Macao on September 2, Dr. T. M. Too, M.D, "How to Cut I have no knowledge

wn All the children on time without his wireito America, from the life of «"

1814, whe 1988, and to Mr. Gulamabbar Ab Down on Medical Expenses," April they have any exist

Italy," to Switzerland. dulcarim in the 814,000 estate of 24, 8 p.m., Chine YM.C.A., Bridges in About six wɓeki öf the late Mahomadilly. Fazulally, street. -21.71 Ta eeh he publ who died at Boroda, India on De- Mrs. P. C. Kwok Woman" and bf kö cember 5, 1985, ¦ Home Economics'' April 25, 2.5

Probate has been granted to p.m.;.-Chinese YW.GA]

Application for, scaling a copy

of probate of the will of the late Mr. George Arthur Bichardson,

The speakers for the Thrift Pro gramme are as follows:

Mr, J. D.. Bush, M.A.,. "Wastes in

+

Wong Bhi in the $2,200 estate of RoadstypeND REVEAL

the lalo, Chen Yes hi who died, at The public are cordially”

Tim Luk village, on: December 12, to, the lectures,

two

Seople could have have been for this young and aim

Mes Dickens had;

LA SALAMANDRE” Duke's Manuscript

Discovered.4SE

Winlading. EVA

ground of hop-selling railway- ¡planning, and politice in that first [Victorian year Robert Cathcart is an appealing if not a very, herafe hero, and his various relátiras,

with their business affair and [local gossip, valleve the high tent- isions of the love story. FF 330 The Duchess of Northumberland Just Impediment" Is a well-

went on to say that for

had

Black

Impetuo

with a loving public

mire to go away

part from her husband

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constructed and interesting piece

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