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ALHAMBRA

TO-MORROW

A Columbia Picture

HOWLOON DARYOTI

• LAST TIMES TO-DAY ONE

Twenty thousand hearts stand still, They're off!.. Damon Runyon's thrill drama of the turf.

RACING

LADY

ANN DVORAK SMITH BALLEW HARRY CAREY

IKO-RADIO PICTURE » Directed by Walloon Fox • Produced by William Sistrom;

"LADY FROM NOWHERE”

with Mary Astor

Charles

Quigley.

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1937

FATHER ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER

STORY OF DAUGHTER WHO CURSED AND WAS SLAPPED

а lane

"Don't lose your temper with your【Chinese constable lying in [children until you are near enough next to the house in which the girl

to punish them in the way nature and her parents stayed. intended them to be,” advised the Giving evidence this morning, a Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, Chinese woman, Li Yee, testified in discharging 34-year-old Chan that she saw accused slap his Chun, who was foung not guilty at daughter after she had cursed him. the Criminal Sessions, this morning The girl did not sway or stagger, when charged with the manslaughter but went about in the usual way. witness of his 15-year-old daughter, Chan Next morning at 5 a.m., Yu.

was awakened by accused who ask-

Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant ed her for one dollar to pay for a Attorney General, appeared for the ricksha in which he said, he was to Crown, while the jury comprised convey his daughter to hospital for Messrs. W. R. Wong (Foreman), treatment. Accused left the pre- Tang Pao-chun, W. H. Bourne, L. F. mises carrying his daughter on his later Xavier, H. A. Alves, Tse Kong-yiu back and returned an hour and Tsang Kam-chuen."

The Chief Justice (referring to the girl took part in a quarrel the curse): "Is it a very bad thing between accused and his concubine, to say?"

The facts outlined showed

that

alone.

for whom the girl stood up. She Witness: "Yes."

was

cursed her father, accused using a Dr. Begbie said that when he ex- phrase meaning “may destruction amined the body, he found blood in fall upon your family.” Accused the nostrils, but no external signs There was a clot of slapped her in the temple and back of violence. part of her head.

blood pressing on the outer mem-

There of the brain. The following morning, the girl's brane dead body was discovered by

bruise suggesting that the brain had been shaken as a result of a blow. Cracks on the skull could have been caused a month before and may not have had any connec tion with the blow the father gave his daughter.

FROM WEAKLINGS

TO ATHLETES

Men Transformed In

Three Months

a

Summing up, the Chief Justice Weaklings have been turned into father to chastise and correct his

remarked that the law allowed

athletes in three months by sys-

a

tematic training they have received children, but he was only to use in the Supplementary Reserve-In- fantry of the Line-states a War Office memorandum:

reasonable and moderate force. There was no evidence to show that accused used his fist to strike his The memorandum gives six typi-"dreadful thing." It had, however, daughter after she had said that cal examples, taken from the sup-

been testified that he slapped her plementary reservists at the depot in a way that she was not even seen of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, Reading, to show the physical im-

The main issue was, did they or provement made by a waiter, pain-did they not think it unreasonable ter, butcher's apprentice, farm la-for the child's father, after being bourer, moulder, and a boxer. cursed, to slap his offending

Small, weak and undeveloped, the waiter has in three months improv ed all round-notably in confidence

and agility. His weight has in creased by 10lb, his chest expansion by two inches, and his height by half an inch.

The painter was of very low physical standard on joining, and nervous. His three months' pro gress included 8lb increase in weight, two inches in chest and one inch in height. He added 3ft to his record in putting the shot.

"Boxer's “Finest Camp"

Of fair physique on joining, but undernourished, the butcher's ap-

to stagger.

was, then the verdict must be one daughter. If they agreed that it

of guilt, If, on the other hand they thought it was not, then they must return a verdict of not guilty. -

Without retiring the jury, ani- mously returned a verdict of not guilty.

OFFICIAL RAG AND

· BONE MAN New Institution For.

The Nazis

An “official” rag and bones man prentice is now. a good physical has made his appearance in Ger- specimen. His weight increased by many.

14lb. chest expansion by 11⁄2in, and Housekeepers are admonished to- height by one inch.

day that nothing must be thrown The farm labourer, of good phy-away. Rags, if disposed of in the. Bique,

but weak, increased his proper manner, will help to bring weight by 19lb, chest expansion in the foreign currency of which two inches, and height a quarter Germany is so short. -For this pur- of an inch.

pose the official "collectors of cast-

A very well-developed man, the off material” will call every month professional boxer has worked and and must be given rags, paper and trained hard, with noticeable re-scraps of old metal. Nothing is sults. He considers the Supple-paid for them.

mentary Reserve the finest train- Bones are collected, partly by ing camp he has been in,” and states another special official and partly by he has never felt so fit. He pro children. his claim by winning hard

The German Winter Relief Or- rounds hout before leaving the de- ganisation has now been given' pot.

in law pub

[legal" "const the signature of Dr.

* Pointing out that at the end of lished under six months recruits may, if they Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda. wish, reti to civil life the mem- For the time being contributions orandum adds: “They will return remain “nominally voluntary,” but home fitter men than they left the present law is probably the first eyen if they will not defend their step towards converting the present country they will be able to defend system of levies upon salaries and themselves."

wages into a regular tax.