LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
More Questions By Mr. M. K. Lo
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UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
IN GOVERNMENT
At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council the Hon. Mr. Lo Man-kam, pursuant to notice, will ask the following ques-; tions:---
of
FRANK SPEAKING
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1936
AT GENEVA STIRRING SPEECH BY MR. ANTHONY EDEN GOVERNMENTS MUST OUTLINE THEIR FUTURE POLICY
(a) How many graduates
London. To-day. Hong Kong University are at pre- Great Britain's attitude towards the problems that confront sent employed in the Hong Kong the members of the League of Nations in view of the failure of Government, and what are their the efforts at conciliation in the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, was de salaries?
fined by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in a speech
(b) Have representations been yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the League Council to made to Government by the Uni-which the report of the Conciliation Committee was communi- versity authorities or other bodies cated
as to the salaries which graduates He said it was the manifest duty of the League members to of the University expect to re-maintain the existing sanctions, and the British Government was ceive from the Government of ready and willing to consider, together with fellow-members of Hong Kong,
the League, the imposition of any further sanctions which might
(e) What are the
facts and be considered necessary and effective for the fulfilment of the materials on which the statement obligations which all of them bore regarding the Abyssinian that "Üniversite-trained Chinese dispute. expect palaries equal to those If as the final outcome of this dispute the authority of the i drawn by Eampean Officers" ix League as the best instrument for the preservation of peace was based?
placed in doubt. then the nations must each of them consider i the policy which it would be their duty to pursue.
The
move
Motions
Colonial, Secretary will that the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 2), dated March 19. 1936, be adopted, ..
The Colonial Treasurer will
mote the Liquors. and Tobacer Duties résolutions.
Some By-law
The Attorney General
will
nove
1. That the By-law
3 of the Public
Health (Sanita-
Tary 18, 1936, be approved.
tion
not
Proceeding Mr. Eden said: "Not only these two belligerents "There is one other element of this but nearly all the nations of the tragic war which, as representing world are parties to the Gas Pro- His Majesty's Government in the tocol of 1925. Is there one nation
who are them-ion earth's surface which is United Kingdom. seives trustees for the well-being interested in its observance? This of races in many parts of the protocol concerns the inhabitants world, 1 cannot
pass over in of every great city in the world." silence the alleged use of poi-l Value Questioned son gas. It is not for me to
"It is for them to charter
reason
RI
Girls from all nations of Earepe competed in the interna- tional beauty contest held Cairo, Egypt, in which Charlotte Wassef, of Alexandria, Egypt, was named "Miss Universe."
LADY HOCKEY STAR LEAVING
To-day's Complete. Short Story
“HER NAME.
WAS MARY”
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By Colin Howard
ARMED CONSTABLE AMOK
Mr. Taylor's Prompt -Action
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very
VOUNG men in love, it has He then ripped the letter arose TWO SHOTS DISCHARGED
been observed, do strange several times, tossed the pieces things. And, what is even overboard for the gulls to make Mr. H. A. Taylor, Government more strange, the things they what they could of them. uttered Opium Monopolist, had s do seem perfectly natural to a short, barking hugh, and it startling experience last night them.
his pipe. The episode, it seemed, when he had to tackle s Chinese Jack hadn't long been at sea, was over.
constable, armed with a revolver, and he hadn't long been in love.
who had apparently had an epi- Therefore, when the steamer Thus Jack Spencer expunged leptic fit and behaved in a threa~ Sylvia Smith put in at Singapore, the name of Mary from his heart tening manner. it occurred to third officer Jack and from his mind. But he could The incident occurred shortly Spencer that to have the name of not expunge it from his chest... after 9.30 p.m. his lady-love, emblazoned upon his
at Middle Gap The name was still very much Road, Magazine Gap, when (chest would be a pleasant and ever-in evidence several years
Mr. later. Taylor, who was in his residence | present reminder of her.
Jack was still on the Sylvia Smith, at the time, heard a shot fired, So Jack discovered a tattooer although he now enjoyed the rank followed by the blowing of a po- -no very difficult task in Singa- of first mate, and his chest had lice whistle. pore and, despite a little em-expanded since it had suffered the Mr. Taylor went out, together embarrassment at disclosing his tattoper's needle in the cause of with his "boy," to investigate sentimental desire, succeeded in love. explaining his requirement.
Her name was Mary. And, when Jack left the tattooer, & little stiff and sore about the chest, that name was indelibly recorded in roman- tic adjacence to his heart.
the
It was not long, therefore. be fore a feeling of neglect made is
self felt.
re-
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's Story will be "Scarlet Beads." by Jona Chrystal
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Sylvia Smith was docked
what was amiss and they came upon a man lying on the ground. As soon as he saw Mr. Taylor and the "boy," the man got up quick- ly and stuck the revolver in the servant's back and then did the same thing to Mr. Taylor.
By this time Mr. Taylor had re- cognised the man as a Chinese
constable, and, acting quickly, he whipped round and disarmed him..
FIERY METEOR IN U.S.
In the meantime, the lady thus honoured was beginning to
dis- cern certain disadvantages in be ing engaged to a sailor. A girl likes to see
something of her
At first Jack had hated the An inspection of the revolver re- fiance, and her desire is not easy to indulge when
that that two shots had the
thought of a name that had gone vealed aforesaid spends most of his time on
out of his life lingering on his been discharged. chest. He had been very self- The constable seemed to be suf- high seas.
conscious of it, and had earnestly fering from some kind of fit and scraped his chest raw with pumice was obviously temporarily out of made by
stone in an effort to crase it. his mind. The police were com the Urban Council under section analyse what effect the use of gas against extermination. If a Con- may have had upon the military cention such as this can be torn
So that it was only natural that
But the beauty of the tattooed municated with and the constable tion) Ordinance, 1935, on Febru-position of the belligerents. It is up at will, our people who live in
the Government she should also realise that, even is more than skin-deep. The name was removed to however, in the judgment of His the great cities of Western Europe!
Aam-Civil Hospital, where he is now if Jack Spencer were absent, he of "Mar" remained in Majesty's Government, impossible or in less densely crowded areas
was not the only man in the world, borant, pristine letters of blue and under observation 2. That the amendment to the not to take account of the evidence elsewhere will ask with
In particular, there Cattle. Swine, etc., by-laws made which exists and which
And, before long, be Was Donald scarlet. by the Urban Council under secshow that
goes to what is the value of any interna
Symonds.
ceased to regard it any more than he would have heeded a mole. poison gas has beentional instrument to which their
Donald Symonds was her con- 4 of the Public Health used by the Italian armies in their representatives put their names. (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935. on campaign against the Abyssinians. How can they have confidence, in Miss Bryson To Have friend. Donald seemed perfectly in Badder mouth for refitting when
ception of the model of the March 17, 1936, be approved.
spectful, sympathetic, and platonic The themselves utterly unprovided with spite of that solemnly-signed pro- 3. That the amendment to the any means of defence against this tocol, that they will not hereafter Trip On "Queen Mary" content to take her out and lister Pamela Anderson entered his life. Market by-laws made by the method of warfare, which has been be torn to pieces, blinded and done Urban Council under section 5 of outlawed by the nations.
to her talking about Jack. Talk- Or, to be accurate, when he enter-! to death in agony?
Miss Marion Bryson, above, ing about Jack, of course, made ed Pamela Anderson's life. the Public Health (Food) Ordin-
"These are questions which the Colony lady interport hoc-it perfectly all right. ance, 1935, on March 31, 1936, be
Pamela, small, dark, and viva- every member of the Council pats key player, and probably the Mary much appreciated Doa-cious, approved.
was walking along the BRILLIANT FLASH FOLLOWED to himself to-day. As far as the most outstanding centre-half in ald's demeanour, and never even front at Baddermouth when Jack British Government is concerned. the history of ladies' hockey in noticed that, by degrees, the topic saw her. Jack was not an impres-
BY RUMBLINGS so deeply do we feel the danger Hong Kong, will be leaving the of Jack dropped out of the con-siocable man, but, immediately, he that I ask the Council at once Colony to-morrow for Europe versation.. Until, one day. Donald, saw nothing else not even formally to recall to every member via Japan and the United States still sympathetic and
respectful, kezb.
A flaming meteor so near the of the League and every signatory by the m.v. Tatsuta Maru. but startlingly far from being
The outcome of not seeing the awoke many persons, shot across earth that it rattled windows and Leung Kam Shui, aged 23. of the Protocol of 1925 the obliga- Miss Bryson will cross the platonic, pointed this out to her. junemployed of No. 359 Shang-tions undertaken by that protocol." Atlantic aboard
kerb was that he was precipitated the sky over central New Jersey the "Queen The result of this was a slight-into the arms of Pamela. hai Street, was this morning
Mary," Britain's greatest con-ly incoherent letter awaiting Jack)
early one day last month and then charged before Mr. S. F. Bal-
tribution to the Atlantic pas-at Madeira. He opened the letter Passing on
vanished apparently into the At- Lantic Ocean.. four at the Central Magistracy
to consider the senger service and the finest with eagerness, and read it through with the theft of four ladies' future of the League in relationship afloat.
three times. ear-rings. two pieces of jade to the outcome of the action in the diamond ring setting, present dispute. Mr. Eden said pair of ear-rings, one there was no nation represented;
with two pass there that might not at some time
4. That the amendment to the Conservancy by-laws made by the Urban Council under section 4 (xvi) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance 1935, or March 31, 1936, be approved.
Bill Readings The Attorney General will move the First reading of
"A Bill to amend the Buildings Ordinance, 1935."
an International
Coz-one
"A Bill to enable effect to be given to vention for the Suppression of one Counterfeiting Currency. signed
others."
C.D.I. ROBBED
Former House-Boy Sent To Gaol
brief-case
Outlook For Future
the
rank
Blotted Ont Light Of Moon
Newark, N. J.
"Ooh!" gaped Pamela "Gosh!" gasped Jack. "I say 11 am most frightfully sorry!"
Which was, if course, a
The speeding object lighted up falsehood.
the countryside for many miles When the girl had acknowledged and was visible as far as Washing- his apology. that should have ton, D.C., approximately 225 miles But it wasn't.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES beer an end of the whole affair.
Professor
at
The
as a
Committee
at 10
Chess Club
will
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the ray.
a
Mrs. S. F. Garner and Master. John L. Garner were arrivals in the Colony this morning from Europe by the mv. Potsdam. Mr. Garner, who is at present residing, in the Colony, was formerly with
am to-morrow Canton Ltd.
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Jack suggested
"DRY LINE" IN A RESTAURANT
An Anomaly
sway.
Air tremors from the fiery body
Policemen on their rounds told of seeing a vivid blue-and-white fash in the sky, followed minutes later by deeg rumbling.
Pilot's Report
some
J. Templeton, a United Airlines' pilot, fying a plane to Newark airport from Cleveland, said that soon after 2.30 a.m. he saw a bril-
liant light overhead that blotted out the light of the moon. It quickly disappeared in an easter- Ocean. ly direction, over the Atlantic
on behalf of His late Majesty at
ports and papers and one need the protection of the gold and jade pendant from No.Covenant. How much, he asked, Geneva on the 20th day of April. 34 Caine Road, the residence of might the efficacy of that protec 1929, to apply to foreign .coin cer-Chief
W. L. Gerrard will Among the passengers who ar-that she must be awfully shaken tain enactments relating to Eri-Murphy, on April 19.
Detective-Inspector Jtion depend on the final outcome of deliver a lecture in the School rived in the Colony this morning wouldn't it be wise to sit down were reported to have been felt tish coin, to assimilate the penal-further charged with illegally
He was the present crisis?
of Surgery, Hong Kong Univer- by
Potsdam was Mr. and rest for a little? That cafe many miles north and south of "The League is to-day in difsity, at 6 p.m. to-day. ties for importing and exporting pawning one gold and jade culties, and it is in a time
George Bodiker, the well-known over there, now-had she had her Newark,
tea? No? counterfeit
Then perhaps she coin and
Canton lawn tennis player and In- to amend brooch and with illegally pawn-difficulty that we most need our
would allow... certain enactments relating to ing one gold and jade pendant. friends. If the
terporter, who returned from ideals on which Andrew's Club will meet at 9 pm of the St. forgery, coinage and extradition."!
business trip to Manila.
(Continued on Page 11) Defendant was sentenced to the Covenant is based have not to day. "A Bill to amend the Midwives six months hard labour on the yet established themselves Ordinance, 1910.”
first charge and to three funiversally observed rule of inter- "A Bill to consolidate and months each on the other national conduct, it is my profound! The Kowloon amend the law relating to the charges, the sentences to run conviction that they cannot be meet to-day at 5.30 establishment of asylums for the consecutively.
killed. They may not as yet at all the Central British School detention custody and care of The total value of the jewel- times direct the actions of Govern- persona of unsound mind, and jlery stolen was $1,710.50, of meats, but they undoubtedly live
which $1,670.50 had been re-in the hearts of men. Let me.meet
The Ladies' Sewing Bee will the Union Insurance Society of City Of London Ends The Attorney General will move covered.
therefore, state without equivoca- at the Matshed Church, Sham- the Second reading of-
Defendant was formerly one tion that the British Government shuipo. "A Bill to amend the Midwives of Mr. Murphy's house-boys maintain their confidence in the
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Tang and..SCENE: A London restaurant. Offences Ordinance, 1932."
and had obtained a key of the League as the best instrument at "A Bill to amend the Stonecut-back door of a vacant house present available for the
A rehearsal of the Hong Kong Pearce and Mr. G. W. Shannon ders the next course, adding saw," he said.
Master E. Tang, Mrs. Muriel Customer, finishing his soup, or "It was the whitest light I ever ters Island Ordinance, 1889.” next door which fitted the door tenance and preservation of inter- to-day
main Singers is called for 5.30 p.m. also arrived in the Colony this "And a whiskey and soda." "A Bill to amend further the of Mr. Murphy's house.
national peace. It is this convic- Kennedy Road,
Church,
morning by the m.v.. Potsdam.
Don Johnston, Eastern Airlines” tion, and this conviction alone,
WAITRESS: Sorry, sir, you can-pilot, reported by wireless to the which has been and remains the
not have that here.
airport that he saw a great ball There will be a whist drive at
Among the passengers who ar- motive for all their actions in the the Cheero Club to-day begin-rived in the Colony this morning tables have beer, wine and spirits; flying over Virginia.
CUSTOMER: People at other of light at 2.53 a.m. as he was ning at 8.30 p.m.
from Singapore by the m.v. Potawhy am I barred? dam were Mr. and Mrs. C. Pater-
"It seemed like burning rock," Policies To Be Considered
The Soldiers'
WAITRESS: You are "They are prepared to
Airmen's son and Master E. and Miss B. City, sir, and you cannot have any blue flame."
in the he said, "with a red core and a and Christian Association will meet at Paterson. accordance with that policy now the Union Church Hall, Kennedy Franks were also passengers by
Mr. and Mrs. A thing intoxicating.
He thought it struck and in the future, as long as the Road, at 7.30 to-day.
the ground somewhere near Law- CUSTOMER: Then why the same vessel from the Straits.
are renceville, Va Patrons are reminded that they other nations and no longer — to
others having drinks?.
Vanished At Sea should book their tables for St. the extent that the other nations
The "Incognitos" Concert Party Kwong Yee Man, a passenger in
WAITRESS: They are not in the State police at solidate the law relating to tele Hotel on Friday next. There will sequence of the final outcome of in the St. John Ambulance Head-Kowloon Hospital when the car hit/You want a drink you must move miles apart, told of seeing the Hammonton John's Ball at the Hong Kong do and no further. If, as a con will give a farewell performance, car No, 19, was admitted to the City, air they are in Holborn It and Scotch Plains, more than 50
arters
Companies Ordinance, 1932."
"A Bill to regulate the Deporta- tion of Undesirable British sub-; jects."
"A Bill to make provision for a levy on the salaries of public officers in the Hong Kong Govern- ment Service."
The Attorney General will move
the Third reading of...
.
"A Bill to amend and
-KOJ
communication."
ACCIDENT OR MISTAKE?
Yard Inspector's Home
Burgled
ST. JOHN'S BALL
Attractive Cabaret
Show Arranged
NEXT FRIDAY'S FUNCTION
present dispute.
act in
that its
be an excellent Cabaret Show. In this dispute, the authority of the addition to an excellent contribu-League were tion from Miss
80 shaken
A zenior Scotland Yard in-pm. precisely. The inclusive cost This is not a prophecy but an 8.30 pm
at the Union
(Tai
ing
Ten bus conductors
for
Feak Road
were firedi
out of the City into Holborn. bluish white flash, followed seven
Boundary Line ·
for eight minutes later by a terri- fying rumble. This situation was revealed by Asbury Park police reported
Hang Road) a tree on the Castle to-morrow, Azalea Reynolds, future utility as the best instru-
beginning at 8.20 yesterday. Miss Soo Chow Lal and Mr. Hment for the preservation of in-for admission, as the concert is There will! be no charge Talbot, the committee have man-ternational peace were placed in for the benefit of Service men and $7 each by Mr. W. Schofield at Mr. G. D. Muggeridge, solicitor, at they noted the passage of some aged to secure Mr. Laszlo Schwartz, doubt, then we should each of 5 Brigade members. the eminent Hungarian violinist have to consider the policy which
the Central Magistracy this morn- the City of London Licensing See-bright light from the sudden light- in that situation it would be our {and humorist.
overcrowding their sions at Guildhall last month. He ing up of the police headquarters, A Dinner Dance will be held at vehicles on different dates. Dinner will be served at 8.30 duty to pursue.
[explained that the City and Metro- but before they could get a good Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow'at
politan boundary ran across the glimpse of the meteor, it had Bpector is the latest victim of of the dinner and dance ticket is anxiety. Its weight, which lies
The members of the Wing On restaurant at Gamage's, and the vanished over the sea. London burglars.
$5.00. After 11 pm there will be upon each one of us, is to ensure
Orchestra are giving à concert at Holborn Licensing Bench hadĮ In Hackensack, the phenomenon After forcing the door, kurglars an
Mr. S. S. Mamak returned to the St Stephen's Girls College next granted a licence for the area in was described as similar to an ex- admission charge of $2.00 that we contribute, to the utmost Colony by the Conte Verde after Saturday evening, commencing at their division- last month entered the house in The committee hope that such a limits prescribed by the Covenant, spending a holiday in India, and 8 p.m.
plosion far to the east or south- Friston-street, Falham, of Detec-well-deserviry charity will receive to the collective support of the has again taken over charge of
Customers who went to tables east. Buildings shook at Pater- tive-inspector Thompson. They the usual support from old patrons authority of the League. Only Messrs. Mamak and Company.
on the Holborn side of the line son, Newark. Perth Amboy and ransacked the lower rooms and and heartily welcome any
Mrs. J. W. Riddock was admit-could have drinks, but not those new thus can we hope ultimately to escaped with a quantity of jewel-patrons. Contributed.
ited to the Kowloon Hospital on on the unlicensed City side. He Jery.
establish in the world a rule of Students of Quarry Bay School Sunday safering from a fracture applied or a licence for that part order in which aggression does not are holding their annual spring to her left an, caused by a fall of the restaurant in the City area. festival on Friday, May 1, at 11 from her pony while riding at The beach granted the applica (Continued "On Page 10)
Shatin Valley.
tion.
Inspector Thompson' served at fore joining the confidence trick pay." Walton-street and Vine-street be-laquad at Scotland Yard last year.
A dinner dance will be held at Repulse Bay Hotel, to-morrow, at 8.30 p.m.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.