1934-05-19 — Page 9

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934.

IMMEDIATE ACTION IF] CONFERENCE FAILS

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his answer was that the Govern- ment was bound by every Article of the Covenant and did not repu diate any Article.

"MUST NOT LOSE HEART"" contribution

An Important

to

the debate was made by Mr. Stan

ley Baldwin,

He said that a question had been asked as to what would hap- pen if the

Disarmament Confer-

ence broke down.

Let them not assume that it: would do so, he said. But if for the time being it should break down then let them not lose heart. Let them remember that after all, concentrated efforts after peace had seldom been made if at all in the world until these post war years, and it was difficult to break an ingrained human habit in one de- cade.

It was, he said, for limitation that they had been working in the British convention. Speaking for himself, he thought limitation was the mly practicable form of Disarmament in the air.

"If you could get limitation, no single power is in a position of such superiority that temptation to attack will become irresistible,” he said. "But there is a corollary. If we did agree to limitation it is imeult to see how sanctions against anyone who broke that The limitation could be avoided, moment you are up against anne-

tions you are up against war.

"In other words, if you are go- ing to adopt a sanction you must be prepared and ready for war. If you adopt that sanction without being ready you are not an honest trustee of a nation.

BETTER DEFENCES NEEDED "There is no doubt in my mind.";

Takes Russian See

- Mgr. Benjamin Fedchenkov

Wearing his ecclesiastical robes, Monsignor Benjamin Fedchenkov, Patriarch of Moscow and Seba- Klupol, is pictured as he arrived at New York, where he takes over the

of the Bishopric

Russiat the past acveral Church. For years, Mgr. Fedchenkov has ministered to the spiritual well- being of Russian exiles in Paris.

WEST POINT GAS VICTIMS.

Indian Watchman In Grave Condition.

NO FURTHER DEATHS.

No more deatha among the West victims have Point gas explosion occurred at the Government Civil |

THE CHINA

R. A. SERGEANT SENTENCED

Delayed Delivery Of Postal Packets.

WIFE SOBS IN COURT

To-day's Short Story.

MAIL.

The Passing Of Chantie The Curlew

By Alan Sullivan.

THIS is a tale of the year of, Sen added to her age when she could

The great sickness that came begin to counte And at sixty-five At the Kowloon Magistracy yes-| terday, Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones sen-to the small brown people who she lived with Metauk, her son, and Lenced Sergeant F. B. W. E. Pratt, live on the shores of Great Island his two children, Tilligoo and Royal Artillery, to six months im-where it fringes the castern bor- Nanook. Metauk had married late, Of and soon after the children came his prisonment en five counts relating ders of the Beaufort Sea.

are told wife had run a poisoned fish-hook to the delay in the delivery of postal necessity such tales packages addressed to two Indian simply, as one speaks to a child into her palm and gone out into the or to those who are very old, for unknown, babbling strange and non-

understandable things.

gunners.

In passing the sentence the Mag-they deal with those who walk carefully and are slow of speech.

Istrate said, "If your actions

had

It was the year after that when merely led to the loss of official And the reason is that death is the great sickness came

to Grant Island. Elsewhere it would have money I may have been inclined to never far away.

The North is a stern mother to been called messics, and treated ac- fine you. You, however, have be

the tribes that tenant her silent cordingly, but to the small brown trayed the infinite trust two poorly places. She feeds them for a time, people it was a scourge laid on them educated Indians placed in you and then, perchance, starves them. She by the Great Spirit who had a habit their officers. For this reason, I

bakes them under a torrid sun and, of expressing himself in various re- cannot accept your Counsel's plea in a little while, strikes them with for leniency and you must go to

cognisable ways. killing winds. She smiles across gaol."

Defendant's wife, who will be re-leagues of sunny waters that soon patriated Home with her children, are hidden beneath endless fields of She dangles her sobbed bitterly when sentence

grinding ice. Was passed. Pratt greeted the sentence purple Aurora in the zenith that all calmly and immediately after the may see and marvel, but out of her. |Magistrate had finished asked, in a unknown regions come roaring the low voice, whether he could speak storms that no man may face and to his wife alone. Fermission was

and So beneath her threats granted by Mr. Wynne-Jones.

live.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Oklahoma Race-Riot,” by Frances Woodward Prentice.

So the scourge spread from point]

The case lasted for exactly four caresses the brown people are what to point, from bay to bay, from igloo] months, and has required no Jeg they are: brave, simple and uncom-to igloo, till morning after morning plaining; wistful, because they know there set forth fewer and fewer hun-

than 27 hearinga.

for whose are ready

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attor-not when the end may come; loving ters over the field ice, and in the ney General, was for the prosecu-the slant-eyed children

scattered igloos the tribe of Metauk tion, while Mr. D. L. Strellett ap-safety they

to die lay on their backs with swollen and generous, because hunger is brother distorted faces, staring at the curv peared for the defendant.

to all, and, when old age comes, ing walls that shut out Unorri, the facing the final great adventure with North Wind, indifferent alike to the unquestioning fortitude and faith yelping of famished dogs and the Chantie, the Curlew, was smitten dwindling complaint of starving with many years. The last great children.

MRS. HUGH-JONES PASSES

-

Tragic Death While En Route Home.

event in her life had been when Ouli-

They died-here a hunter, there but, the Shining Ice, went the way & woman and there a child, and what of his fathers in a fine new igloo became of the dead it were better with a walrus tusk on top to signify not to ask. Perhaps the white foxes that this was the place of death. knew, or those lean and dreadful FUNERAL (AT PENANG

She never forgot that, even though shapes that came by night from the life had gone hard with her ever near-by hills. News

received yesterday

Simultaneously it since.

seemed that the salmon deserted the afternoon of the death of Mrs. Grace

Now she was sixty-five. The way shallow waters, for they swam no The remaining 23 cases in hos Jones, of the firm of Messrs. Wilber of times she could remember the neath the igloo's floor, while the Hugh-Jones, wife of Mr. G. S. Hughahe reckoned this was by the num-longer with slowly waving fins be- pital are all considered to be more kinson & Grist, at Penang at 11.45 breaking up of the lee on Beaufort sinew line with its bone hook hung He knew that anxiety felt infor lesa serious. They are sun. yesterday.

·Britain in regard to air, espéciallyfering from bad burns, and many

he continued, "that if you wro`go-Hospital during the last 24 hours, ing to force collective guarantees although the condition of Santa collective sanctions it means Singh, an Indian watchman, is

make that you have got to

this considered to be very grave. country a good deal stronger than.

Or

she is to-day."

message Medical Officer this

if the Disarmament Conference of them may be in bed for many should fail and no agreement for air weeks, according to a limitation were reached. That an-from the xiety, had not been lessened by the morning. events in Europe during the last few months.

The House would remember. his recent statement on behalf of the Government regarding this subject. That statement stood.

He knew his friends hoped that he would say when, and in what cir cumstances, the Government would

Personal Pars

WRE

a

The funeral was arranged to take place at Penang at 8 a.m. to-day. Formerly Miss Fothergill and nember of a family which had been long established at Rippon, York-j hire, Mrs. Hugh-Jones visited Hong Kong some years ago, but her mar- riage did not take place until 1929,

The Comte and Comtesse Jean de wher. Mr. Hugh-Jones was in Eng- Suzannet were passengers on the land on leave.

which RM.S. Empress of Russia left Hong Kong yesterday.

Messrs. December last.

the

make a more definite declaration. H. J. Armstrong, of They could trust the Government, Deacons, left yesterday on who were also anxious on that mat-R.M.S. Empress of Russia.

ter.

condition was so critical that

AIR ARMING WITHOUT DELAY

The name of Captain Reginald But he would say one thing which would allay anxiety. Any decision David Walker, M.C., has been added to increase the air force could not to the List of Authorized Architects. be put into effect without months of in notified in the current issue of plete recovery, but at Penang

the Government Gazelle. detailed preparation. He would any that preliminary work was now be ing done, so that If their fears were realised, and it was necessary to im- plement the pledge he had given, not a single day would be lost.

that

comTM her she

GAOL PRISONER'S DEATH.

Murder Verdict

Returned.

alack and motionless in the emerald depths.

And if within the homes of the tribe of Metauk there was disease and death, the surrounding plains held that which was equally forbid- ding. Day after day, night after night, droned Unorrl from the speechless north, unconquerably bit- ter. With the wind came a Ane driving snow that stung like hot sand and made even the polar bear

It may

PRISON DEPT. BLAMELESS Mr. and Mrs. Hugh-Jones were in the Colony from 1929 to the early

The Coroner's inquiry Into the part of last year, when they again death of Wong Yat, a prisoner at blink his yellow eyes.

"It was the finger of Fate that kept) Mrs. Armstrong, wife of Mr. went Home on leave, returning in Victoria Gaol, who died on March 28

last, and who was found to have old Chantie from the curse. Latterly, Mrs. Hugh-Jones had nine ribs broken, was concluded at be that she was too dry and shrievell- Her gums not enjoyed the best of health and the Central Magistracy yesterday, ed to yield to disease. on May 9 she sailed for home by the the jury returning a verdict of mur-were fleshless, her skin like parch- Blue Funnel liner Heelor.

der against some person or persons ment-brown and crackling with; It was confidently expected

unknown.

age, and her eyes had receded till The Jury also added that no blame they were no more than black slits news would be received of a

was attached to the Prison author!-in a leathern mask. Her chief sen- ties, and also that decensed had re-sations were love for Nanook and] ceived the best medical attention Tlgoo, and a consciousness of was taken from the ship to the Gov-from Dr. Griffiths and Dr. Thomas having forgotten many things. Mr. C. H. Douglas, of the Public ernment Hospital. Works Deparment, accompanied by

Mr. E. W. Hamilton presided as She was famished like the rest, She died very shortly afterwards, Coroner and the Jury comprised but her hunger soon became sub- Mrs. Douglas and two children,ja brief cable announcing the

Messrs. F. C. Collaco (foreman), II merged in a vast pity for the chil- among the passengers wha}news yesterday afternoon. left on the R.M.S. Empress of

dren. At night she lay awake for hours. pinching her withered breast) Russia yesterday,

and thinking of the days when] Metauk's small sleek head lay against|

She her warm smooth shoulder. wondered if Oulibut, who had gone! The first of the St. Andrew's to the place where there was always Club weekly bathing picnics will be good hunting and fishing-and no held this afternoon, leaving the Kow-sickness, could see them now, and loon Police Pler at 3.80 p.m. Mem-what he thought about it. bera and their friends are cordially invited.

were

In view of the general anxiety on the subject, it was right that the Government should take such 13 Mr. W. B. Finnigan, Registrar, course. But he was also certain

Hong Kong University, accompanied that there was no danger in the near

by Mrs. Finnigan, were among the future before Britain and there] might be less danger in the future passengers who left Colony by the R.M.S. Empress of Russia yester- day,

than they imagined, Mr. Baldwin concluded.-British Wireless Ser-

vice:

E.

NEW YORK STOCK MARKET RALLY

(Continued from page 1.)

In their market report, Messrs.

A.

Pierce and Company,

BRILLIANT RECOVERY BY MIDDLESEX

sad

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Earlier Results

Professor R. E. Tottenham, of At Leyton the Australians beat the Hong Kong University, accom-Essex by an innings and 98 runs.

Fasex: 220 (Nichols 62 not oul, W. J. [panied by Mrs. Tottenham, were

O'Iteilly for 19). among the passengers on the R.M.S. Empress of Russia which left Hong] Kong yesterday.

Mr. D. J. Lewis, principal of

A. Barres and E. I. Rozario.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Just then the children stopped babbling, and she became aware of Ja voice, thick and scarcely recognis- Mr. C.-Champkin will be the able. It was the boice of Metauk 125 (C. Y. Grimmelt 5 for 54, speaker at next Tuesday's Rotary He had turned on his side so that W. J. O'Reilly 3 for 54).

tiffin at the Hong Kong Hotel. The she could just make to his distorted Australians: 438 (A. Chipperfield 175, subject will be "The Aborigines of

W. M. Woodfull 55, W. Brown 58, the Malay Peninsula,” K. Farnts 3 for 11).

Glouces At Hove, Sussex beat

fruits.

The Ladies Club, 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers, will

face.

"How long have I been thus?" "I know not, but for many days.” "Then give me food. My belly is

no water." and Tombola in Murray Barracks on

8 p.m. Saturday, May 28 commencing at

through their local correspon-Menery. Johnson Stokes and Master,tershire by an innings and 138 dents, the American Oriental accompanied by Mrs. Lewis, were Finance Corporation, state:—

"The general opinion as a result Empress of Russia which left Hong Gloucester: 101 (Tate 6 for 26).

among the pasengers on the R.M.Sansex: 406 for 8 dec. (J. Parks 181). hold their fortnightly Whist Drienlike a water-hole in which there is

of to-day's session was that yester-Kong yesterday.

At Swansea, Yorkshire took first 'day's rally must be considered an

largely technical and that there Mr. D. Drummond, Orlental Man-innings points from Glamorgan. will be no follow-through on the lager of the Canadian Pacific Steam-Glamorgan: 248 (Emailes 6 for 70), up-side.

167 (Tate 4 for 48).

128),

A demonstration of night flying,

On the other hand, pres-ships, Ltd., was among the passen.Yorkshire: 351 (Mitchell 104, Leyland (the plane guided by searchlights sure le light and we think that|gers on the R.M.S. Empress of At Oxford. Lancashire there has been considerable short-Russia which left Hong Kong yes- with Oxford University, covering during the last few days.terday.

Lancashire: 420 (Paynter 143), Oxford; 282 and 200 for 4.

-TO-DAY'S GAMES

"Wheat: Conditions are nervous

and there is not enough support. Professor R. K. M. Simpson, of The market acted tired after an the Hong Kong University, accom early advance on no appreciable panied by Mrs. Simpson, were weather improvement, mar jamong the passengern on the R.M.S. "Cotton: Favourable weather Empress of Russia which left yes- continues to restrict demand, and terday.

this lack of support is largely re-

The old woman shook her tousled head. "Were there food Tilligoo had eaten it long ago. There is none."

At that Metauk propped himself drew from the aerodrome, was staged by his head seemed as large as his up. He was not a pretty, sight, for the Far East Aviation Company at body. Kal Tak last night for the benefit of

"Then go to the "Igloo of Aivick General Lum Kai-shing, in charge of and ask for real meat., All women aviation for the Kwangsi Govern- }ment.

are fools, especially the, old ones."

"There is no meat in that iglio," Southampton Hampshire 1 v. suid Chantic patiently, nor will

Gloncestershire.

| Aiviek bring home any more. Derby Derbyshire v. Warwick-sickness took him and he is dead.”

ahire.

Metauk made a choking little noise Leicester, Leicestershire V

The following are the matches commencing to-day:

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Land's Middlesex v. Sussex

Cheimsford Essex Worces

tershire Taunton –Somerset v. Hent.. Nottingham Nottinghamshire v..

Surrey (Continued at Foot of Next Col.)

sponsible for to-day's easing. The The names of Dr. Chan Chiu-19-Lord's Middlesex v. Busty market now largely depend upon kwong and Dr. William Yaen have Trade price-fixing-Reuter. - been added to the Register of Medi- cal Practitioners in the Colony, it is Only one case of typhoid fever notified in the current issue of tha was reported in the Colony duringi Government Gazette. the 24 hours ending Thursday.

Northamptonshire.

Sheffield-Yorkshire

The

in his throat. "Speak then to Pitu- Lan-luk of some of the others, for the | walls of my stomach are cleaving Cambridge University. Gla-out of my bones.”

together and the strength has 'ran

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