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POVERTY RIFE IN HONG KONG Deplorable Conditions

In Many Districts

S.P.C. ANNUAL REPORT

The deplorable conditions ex- isting in certain districts of Hong Kong are revealed in, the fifth an-

nual report of the Society of the Protection of Children, which will

be presented at the annual meet- ing at the Helena May Institute next Tuesday."

During the year under review. there were reported to the Society 960 canes affecting the welfare of 2,182 children, the number of cases being larger than that for the previous year by 42.

The Western District, where the tenements are oldest and least hygienic, and the density of po- pulation is greatest, once again produced the highest number of, cases-359, while Kowloon provid-j ed 821 and Eastern Hong Kong, 280.

In only a few cases Was It found, upon enquiry into the means of the parents seeking re- lief, that the help of the Society could not reasonably be given.

GOLF STARTING TIMES

Sunday's Pairings At Fanling

The following are the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club starting times for fanling on Sunday:--

OLD COURSE

9.36 m. A. McKellar, D. S. Robb. 9.40 LA. R. Duncan, J.

Harrison,

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934

America paid tribute on October 12 to Christopher Colum- bus, discoverer of America, Columbus Day, and is the anniversary of the date when Colum- The day is appropriately termed bus first saw the shores of America in 1492, where Columbus Ilved in Funchal, Madeira, a Portuguese · island Above, the house uff the coast of Africa. The street where stands is culled "Rua Cristovao Colombo," in honour of Colum.

the house stili bus, shown, Inset.

PUISNE JUDGE WELCOMED Summary Court Function

!

SUITS OF DOG HAIR!

The Latest In Tweeds

On London

FOR THE WELL-DRESSED MAN

His Honour Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, who was recently appoint-

Suits of dog hair tweed made: led Puisne Judge in succession to from the combing of their pets are

Major Wren, Comdr, Telley. f. J. R. Wood, who retired curly the latest fashion for animal

J. E. Jupp, H. J. Arm! strong.

this year, was welcomed back on lovers.

Samples of the tweeds are be-

W. L. Alexander, J. Harrop. the Bench this morning by the

G. C. Worrall. D. II. Perry Hon. Mr. C, G. Alabaster, K.C.,ing shown at the Golden Jubilee!

A. T. Lay, L. R. Andrewex, D.B.E., the Attorney-General, whe Exhibition of the Honie Arts and

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G. T. May, R. C. Webb.

To-day's Short Story.

THE CORDUROY PANTS O

Caldwell By Erskine

Two weeks after he had sold be let the hammer, drop out of

for twelve hundred dollars and wiped his mouth with his handker- the Mitchells had moved in and chief and turned around facing taken possession, Bert Fellows Bert.

discovered that he had left his "You go in my house and I'll other pair of corduroy pants up have the law on you. 'I don't give lattic.

a cuss if you've left fifty pair of When he had finished hauling his corduroys up attic. I bought and furniture and clothes to his other paid for this place and the buildings place on the Skowhegan road, he on it and I don't want nobody track- was sure he had left nothing be-Jing around here. When I want you hind, but the morning that he went to come on my land I'll invite you."! to put on his best pair of pants he Bert scratched his head and look- could not find them anywhere. ed up at the attic window. He be Bert thought the matter over two gan to wish he had not been so or three days and decided to go forgetful when he was moving his around on the back road and ask belongings down to his other house Abe Mitchell to let him go pp attic on the Skowhegan-road. and get the corduroys. He had "They won't do you known Abe all his life and he felt Abe," he said. "They are about ten certain Abe would let him go into sizes too big for you to wear. And) the house and look around.for them: they belong to me, anyway."

Abe was putting a new board on

the door-step when Bert came np. the road and turned into the yard. Abe glanced around but kept right] on working.

Bert waited until Abe had finish- led planing the board before he said

anything.

"How be you, Abe?" he inquired cautiously.

"Hell, I'm always well," Abe

no good,

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Immortality," by Gordon West.

"I've already told you what I'm said, without looking up from the going to do with them corduroys” step.

Abe replied, going back to work. Bert was getting ready to ask "I've made my plans for them pern.lesion to go into the house. corduroys. I'm going to keep them; twenty-penny into the board. He waited until Abe hammered the going to do."

Bert turned around and walked

"I left a pair of corduroys in toward the road, glancing over his there, Abe," he stated preliminarily, shoulder at the attic window where attic and got them, would you?" "You wouldn't mind if I went up his pants were hanging on a rafter.

MEAT CHOPPER STOLEN

Lane Crawford Ltd., A.P.C. congratulated Mr. Justice Lindsell Industries Association at Sunder- Caught When Following

R. A. Rodgera, A. D. Coppin on his appointment and wished himaland House London.

J. Me I Brown W. H. B. every success for the future.

Rigg.

felt.

10.28 W. E. Hunt, D. J. Keogh

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Girl

He stopped and looked at Abe several minutes, but Abe was busy hammering twenty-penny nails. Into the new step he, was making, and The paid no attention to Bert's sour looks. Bert went back down the road, wondering how he was going to get along without his other pair of pants.

By the time Bert reached his house he was good and mad. In the first place, he did not like the

T. C. Fairburn, A. Sommer-' His Lordship the Chief Justice, have to wait years before one has Pleading guilty to the charge of way Abe Mitchell had ordered him Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor, who was collected sufficient hair to make stealing a meat chopper, Chong away from his old farm, but most Court, fully endorsed the Hon. At- also present in the Summary the material for a suit.

Yung-kee, a 24-year-old unemployed, of all he missed his other pair of Despite this Miss L. Grayson, was sentenced to six weeks' impri-corduroys. torney-General's remarks.

Principal of the Somerset Weavers, sonment by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at could not sit still. He walked And by bedtime he] Mr. R. E. Lindsell relieves Mr. who are exhibiting the tweeds, has the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-around the kitchen, mumbling to Justice P. Jacks, who has been woven several suits and costumes ing.

himself and trying to think of Detective Sergeant J. F. Kennedy, some way by which he could get his

10.32 J. E. Richardson, N. K.

Littlejohn.

W. A. Stewart, W. W. t

Shewan...

G. F. Reas, I. II. Beddow. Acting Puiane Judge since Mr. J. on her hand looms at Clevedon, and F. Austin, P. S. Grant.

J. F. Robinson, P. I. Leefe, R. Wood's departure from the Co- the weavers are all satisfied that

C. W. Jeffries, T. S. Whyte lony.

Smith,

C. H. Bradley, J.-S. Mat- Laren.

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D. A. O'Kieffe, T. C. Manug-

10.04

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LAMAS PRAY FOR NEW RULER

Kon.

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$. 11.

Dortwell, A. B.

Stewart.

J. W. Alabaster, P. Morri-

11.20

J. Forbes, A. B. Purves,

11.21

F. R: Otto, K. K. Rounds.

11.28

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ban.

A. Ritchie, W. J. Carrie.

G. S. Archbutt, K. S. Marci-1

AOR.

E. Lewis, W. Piltendrigh,

NEW COURSE

they are well worth waiting for.

never

of the Mong Kok Police Station, trousers away from Abe, stated that the defendant had been "Crusty-faced Democrats Bust Tweeds

living on the immoral earnings of were no good," he mumbled to him- "Poodles, sheep dogs and chowala girl, which he was looking after. self.

are among the breeds from which Lately he had been quarrelling Half an hour later he was walk-

we get the best, tweeds," a col with her saying that she was noting up the back road toward his old league of Miss Grayson told Reu paying him enough money.

farm. He had waited until he ter. "We only use.combings from

Last night the defendant took the knew Abe was asleep, and now he

Anxious For Coming Of live and healthy dogs, and it takes girl to the Wah Kee Noodle stall in was going to get into the house and

Successor

owners sometimes years to collect Ivy Street. They quarrelled there, up attic and bring out the sufficient.

and as they were leaving the defen- cerduroys. dant picked up a chopper and hid it

Bert felt in the dark for the Eighteen hundred lamas man from the combings taken from a small boy, Wong Cheuk-hung the covered it could be opened just as "We made a suit length for one under his sleeve. He was seen by loose window in the barn and dis- temples scattered over Sikang his three bob-tailed sheep dogs. son of the stall-keeper. and Tibet are conducting a series and in another case thres French of religious meetings to pray for

he had expected. He had had good poodles provided hair for a cost mediately reported the matter to the the past two or three years, and The son told his father, who im-intentions of nailing it down, for cessor of the Dalai Lama, accord- . Little ing to information received here leased with the coat made from in his trousers. At the time of hand the woodshed and into the police. Defendant was arrested in now he was glad he had left it as "One of our customers was 80 Reclamation Street with the chopper it was. He went through the barn It is stated that the lamas are the dog's hair that when she and arrest he was following the girl. quite anxious for the coming of

0.36 am. D. J. Gilmore, H. u. the 13th spiritual rules and sucand skirt for their mistress.

Ireland.*

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W. J. Jamieson, J.

9.48

G. W. Tolmie. T. Law.

0.62

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G. A. Leiper, L. R. Billing

10,00

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hurst,

her dog were invited to a party she

A. O. Bremner, J. B. Mog. the new successor as nearly one tied a little placard to the dog with

Donald.

year has elapsed since the 12th the inscription, 'my mistress and I 10.04 D. S. Edward, G. B. S. Dalai Lama died in Tibet.

are wearing the same coats"!

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Thomson.

J. P. and Mrs, Sherry

Lamas in the Yung Ho Kung in Smaller quantities of hair are used M. N. Cootes, J. G. Pilcher. Peiping are also conducting a Mrs. Thomson, Miss Curtin, similar prayer meeting.

for scarves and waistcoats for dog 10.28 D. K. Hislop. D. Ellist {

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Caddies from Superintendent,

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

One case of diphtheria and one

in the Colony during the 24 hours.

† Unsuccessful in ballot for Old ended December 12. Course.

SOFT DRINKS RULE IN CANTON Tea Shops Declining

owners.

JAPANESE GIRLS ARE TALLER NOW

.

DYNAMITE THEFT

Two Of Gang Of Four Gaoled

COMPENSATION ORDERED

house,

Abe had gone to bed about nine o'clock, and he was asleep and snoring when Bert listened at the door. Abe's wife had been stone- deaf for the past twenty years or more.

Bert found the corduroy pants, with no trouble at all. He struck only one match up attic, and the pants were hanging on the first nail he went to. He had taken off his shoes when he climbed through the A sequel to the raid and the steal-barn window and he knew his way ing of a case of dynamite on the through the house, with his eyes case of typhoid fever were reported Hygiene Bureau Survey the morning of December 3,

Dynamite Store No. 111 at Lan Nel out again was just as easy as he at shut. Getting into the house and Japanese girls average 20 centi-ing, when two Chinese were charged long as Abe anored, he was safe.

Wan, Stanley, was heard this morn had thought it would be. And as The Secratary of the Poppy Day they did 38 years ago, but their tral Magistracy, with breaking and the bara again, putting on

meters more in height now, than before Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen- Fund wishes to acknowledge chests still lack development, a entering, and stealing.

In another minute he was out in memory of C. N. S. W. (20th Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of 32-year-old stone driller, and Lam joke on Abe Mitchell, all right. cheque for £5 given to the undying survey by the Public Hygieno The defendants were Yu Kee, & his arm. He had put over a good his shoes and holding his pants under Hussars) and E. G. G. (18th Lob-the Interior has revealed. don Regiment).

Shing, an earth coolie. The dyna- went home and got into bed.. mite was the property of the Tal The next morning Abe Mitchell Yau Kee Contractors

Inspector Logan stated that & Bert's house and got out. Bert saw drove his car up to the front of band of four men, including the dehim from his window and went to Fendants, made a raid on the store meet Abe at the door. He was Charged with the theft of five and one of the men was alleged to wearing the other pair of corduroys, woollen singlets valued at $10 from have assaulted Tai Chun, the watch the pair Abe had said he was going

Three months' hard labour was imposed on Chu Yul Hung, unem Acording to one Cantonese ployed who was charged with loiter- journal, the popularity of modern ing at No. 81D, Wyndham Strect, soft drinks, like cocoa, coffee, or before Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones at the angeade and lemcade, has ousted Central Magistracy this morning. the fashion for decking tea to such

WOOLLEN SINGLETS STOLEN

a shop at No. 45, Queen's Road, man, who was later removed to hos- to keep for himself.

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an extent that there are now only For stealing a cotton jacket and Central, Wong Chung Wong, aged pital suffering from head injuries have you arrested for steal- about 80 shops in the Canton, Tes a pair of trousers from the pas 17, was sentenced to one month's Two men are still at large and the ing my pante, Abe announced as Guilą, g

sage way of No. 70 Parkes Street, hard labour by Mr. E.L Wynne Police believe that were the real soon as Bert opened the door. The total daily sales often is first floor, So Tuen, a 29-year-old Jones at the Central Magistracy assaliants of Tal Chun. estimated to average not more than unemployed was sentenced to this morning. Wong Cheuk Chuan, Six weeks' hard labour were im to me now I might consider calling $2,000 and the average daily export three weeks hard labour by Mr. who was charged with aiding and, posed on accused, in addition $15 off the charges. It's up

But if you want to give them back Agures is $4,000, which is a very E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon abotting, was discharged: owing to compensation to the complainant, In what you want to do about it" serious declins

default three week's Imprisonment (Continued on Page 11.)

Magistracy this morning,

lack of evidence.

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