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Departures from the Peninsula Hotel on Wednesday included Mr. and Mrs. J. Copeller, Mis D. Terriberry, Miss A. J; Smith, Mézera. W. H. Cummings, V. E. De Rosario, R. 3, Sheels, 5, Bennett and J. Brown.

Among the new arrivals at the Peninsula. Hotel on Wednesday. were Mr. and Mrs. L. D. M. Beattie, Mrs. E. D. Nash Mrs. J. N, Butes, Mrs. L. Eldridge, Miss D. Willis, Miss D. H. Taylor, Messrs. J. Harrdrstrom, D. H, Le Velle, H. Gourdin, K. Ferguson W Milne, C. L. M. Cowley, S. P. Davies and A. Doddoli,,

Mess. C. M. McEwan, P. R Monotok, F. W. Kendall and Lea Chung-nim arrived in Hong Kong from Manila' on Wednesday by CPA,

Miss E, Anderson, Mian G. West, Miss S. J. Chapman, Messrs. C. Ward and Yu Kim left the Colony for Manila by CPA' on Wellnes- day.

Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Bell and M.

R. H. Martyn were among the ur

THE CHINA MAID, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1850

The

Mr. and Mr George Geoll Yow, who were married at the Supreme Court, Marriage Registrar's Office yesterday.

bride la the former Miss Lily’Laung.

Seamen ashore look

for the "Flying Angel'

rivals here yesterday by the my If a seaman" happens to ask "Where can I find:

Changsha from Kabe

He drank the whisky himself

of

the Flying Angel?" do not doubt his sanity, He is only looking for the Sailor Home and Missions to Snomien.

For, according to the Reverend W. J. Haig-Brown, chaplain of the Hong Kong Mission, seafar- ers generally refer to the Mission by that

name.

Mission's work

The Reverend Halg-Brown the economic life and death of the was speaking to membora of people of the world, he said, the Y's Men's Club" at their weekly luncheon at the Hong Kong Hotel on "The World- wide work of the Missions to Seamen," yesterday,

Pleading guilty to a charge of public mischief by giving the police false information that he had been robbed two bottles of whisky and $40 by four armed men, Walter Harrison, aged 50, chief stc ward of the mv. Agamemnon, was fined $50 by Mr. F. X d'Almada at Kowloon yester-

The "Flying Angel"-so-called [day,

Detective Sub-Inspector W. because of the emblein of an an-

gel in Mght carrying, B. Summers prosecuting said that of which is the dag of the Mission March 31 the poilce received a

world-wide telephone. cult from defendant at is a Holl's Wharf, where his skip operating in more than 100 ports was moored, reporting the rob- in the world. It is a decentralised society and is financed by the Church of England, the churches in the United Kingdom and local shipping Arms.

Pi

Officers of Junior Chamber

of Commerce elected

Mr. Edward Tam was olącted President of the Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of sponsor members at the Jacobaan Room yesterday.

The following have been elected to the Board of Directors: Mr. Arnold Hall, Mr. Paul Lim, Mr. Alexander Ng, Mr. J. S. Lee, Mr: Bernard Croft, Mr. M. J. Oremus, Mr. Melville Stewart and Mr. Henry Howell.

In addition to his presl dential duties, Mr. Tam) also serves on the Board of Direc- tors,

Mr. Austin Coates, Assistant Colonial Secretary, was appointed honorary. adviser to the Board of Directors on a motion put forward by Mr. Arnold Hall. The motion was carried unanimously.

Mr. Coates, said Mr. Hall, has been connected, with the Cham bérelhos Its inception, and has contributed largely its muc. onccful materialization,

proceeded in an orderly fashion on the principle of secret; balloting.

The Board of Directors wn: elected nearly five months afte the arrival in Hong Kong of Mr Filipino Jaycee John D.K. NË, who was sent to the Colony 1: interest young men hare to os

a Junior Chamber 0! tablish Commerce of their own.

The Hong Kong Chamber will be formally inaugurated later this month.

Mr. Coates himself was not pre ARMED ROBBERY sent at yesterday's meeting, being nway in: Macão on vachiión.

Emorgonco proclaimed The meeting gave the Hong Kong Chamber its first opportuni- ty to proclaim its emergencétis an association.

. It was attended by over '30

An armed robbery, occurred' at 0.26 last night in the staircase of 1131 Canton Road, Kowloon, when four men held un Yung $7,000 in cash. Pui; merenant, and robbed hin of

home

Yung WAR returning when he was shadowed by the

Vocal recital by Chinese Tenor

Prof. JAN: HUM

Professor Jan Hu-(tenor)- will give a vocal recital ut The Gripps, Hong Kong Hotel, at 8.30 p.m, on Sunday: An or- cital.

sponsor members, and clectlar men; one of them armed with chestra will accompany the re- a revolver. He was going up the stairs to his fat in the second floor of the building: when the robbery, occurred,

Weddings

Yow-Loung,

The robbery was reported to the Mongkok Police: Station and} a police detall was despatched to the "scene.

SCOUTS: CAMP There will be a Hong Kong District Combined Camp, at St.

College Stephen's

Ground, Stafley: from; today, to Sunday,

The recital will be repeated at the Peninsula Hotel on April 16

the same time.

Prof. Jan Hu was formerly:pro- fessor of musle in the National Central University, National Con- servatory of Musle, China, and head of the. Hunon Music Insti- tute.

riving helped Har- rison aboard his ship when he patronage and works for the wel- of as a pori, the stranger ar- ployed at the Tenancy Tribuna), the! Scouts, A display will fol-1 conducted. ·

The organisation is under Royal

fare of seafarers of all nation- alities.

FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS

Hong Kong, Reverend Haip-} Brown. said, is one of the finest porta. But generally, most dick.] Miss Lily Leung, daughter of lands are grim, miserable and Mr. Leung Yip-tin und the late situated in a slum area,

Mrs. Leung, became the bride of It is in such places that the sea- George Cecil Yow, son of Mr.

He was first educated at the Ceell

at Yow,

the

Shanghal Conservatory of Music? Bible men will find great hardships in and Mrs.

along socially. That is Supreme Court Marriage Regis

later under the personal instruc organisation, where the Mission comes to be of trar's Office yesterday.

tion of the Russian: Basso, Prot! Importance.

Fourteen Troops of about 200 Shuain. Mr. W. H. Latinier, Tenancy

During his stay in' In

and Miss couls will take part. every port, the Church of Tribunal President,

Shanghai, he was considered, as England, is represented by the Yeung Bingeshan were witnesses,

The Deputy Colony Commis- one of "Flying Angelproof that the The bridegroom, + popular Bloner, Mr. C. C. Quah, will for- of China's hest Tenora by quesied to sing, at the Shanghai! em- p.m. after which he will Inspect Municipal orchestra in which Pacl scamen overseas are not neglected. member of a well known Ausmally open the Camp af 3.30 Maestro Paci, and had been re-

Ay an' illustration of the dim- tralian Chinese family; is culties confronting a

His father is a low

During the war, Prof. flu went speaker told Supreme Court.

wireless inspector at the Gov of

to the interior of China, and was experiences young aperament Radio Office.

engaged in the promotion of music The bride's, father is д · mer- prentice scamen of 10 or 17.

education, and the cultivation of Fresh from some sheltered home

chant from Canton, and arrived environs, new to his strange

The forthcoming weddings have young students of music.

well. Today, his students are. The reception was held last been announced of Frederick Al known apleista both in China and the apprentice, with cash. in here for the occasion,

would either Pockets

spend. It

night at the Kwong Chip Res-bert Siva, stockbroker, of 18 here. Since his arrival in Hong foolishly or mope around feeling lautant, West Point, which Was Chathani Road, and Miss Kristine Kong, he has been requested, to considerably depressed without attended by a large number. of Ingrid Thoresen, of 37 Austin sing on the air at Radio, fons

to enjoy

himself.

Road; and Fung Ho-hon, mechanic, Kong and Rediffusion on a num being able

With

of 7 Tak Shing Street, second ber of times. guidance and information relatives and fellow-employees.

floor, and Miss Arie Winfred Lauman---Doris provided by the Mission, the

Bowen, of 82 Morrison Hill Road. young apprentice could have i comfortable time ashore...

Seamen are looked after in the

alckness event of accident,

and even crime. Visits are made re- Fularly to hospitals

nitals and

prisons. Reverend Haig-Brown said that the seafarers who land themselves in gaol, through, having had one co many drinks, actually do not mean any harm at all.

very

The poller started an investi- gation und finally located the four men British soldiers the RAMC, and who turned cut te be the men who had was found drunk ashore by the soldiers. Inspector Summers said that defendent might have lost his money ashore and that he had drank the whisky himself.

In Imposing the fine the Magis- trate said that look into con- sideration that defendant at the time was under the influence of liquor and that defendant's ship The seamen have bridged the was leaving 'today.

gap over the oceans; that means

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The arteries of the world have been linked up chiefly by the work of the seamen who braved the elements, the speaker said, and if it were not for the service rendered by these seafarers, star- vation would spread.

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HK handicapped Seamed, he asserted, are not bartlened alchoholics. Generally + seafarer will have no alcohol for days when at sea. A touch at i once ashore will affect him and may land him in gol

But the number of such cas represents a very small minerity "It is because the majority" behav themselves genuinely and wel that we seldom hear about them, Reverend Halg-Brown said. In the Colony today, the

speaker disclosed, the social ca

entertain-

mthis have not been many be- cause of lack of "dance hostess."

Lieutenant. Henry Wheeler second floor Laurinn; of the United States

The forthcoming marriage Army, realding at the Hong Konst Hotel, and Miss Winifred Eileen Miss Tseng Chiu-kwan, daughter Doria, DAC, U.S._ Army, were of Mr. and Mrs. Treng Kwang married at the Supreme Court chih, and Mr. Lee Ming, thr Marriage Registrar's Office: yer-second son of Mr. and Mrs. Ler terday in the presence of Miss Iu-chbung, has been announced | Janice Sara Mees and Herman and will take place at St. John'

Cathedral on Tuesday. Baker.

Soldier to stand

trial in rape case

Craftsman, Leslie James Burch, REME, was cam- mitted to stand trial at the next Criminal Sex- sions at the Supreme Court by Mr. James Wicks at Kowloon yesterday...

The thousands of troups now in Burch, faced; three charges of rape, robbery with

Hong Kong have evidently mus tered the available ladies, he

However, a dance is arranged

violence and rendering a person, insensible. with intent to commit an indictable offence.

His recitals will be accompani ed by a chorus and orchestra, in which Prof. Lin Sheng-shih, formerly Chief Conductor of the China's Symphony Orchestra will take the stand

The programmer will include pieces from Schubert, Schumann, Bizet: Brahms, and arias from Puccini's-opera.

Prot, Hu will also, introduce a number of Chinose folk songs and lyrics among them will be the Dragon Boat Song, accompanied by a chorus and a combination of Chinese and European instru-

menis,

Rediffusion's

Easter programmes

Rediffusion has prepared: 14 special programmes of music for the Easter season the highlight of which will be a two-hour broadcast of Sir Edward, Elgar's "Oratorio, The Dream of Geron- dus" on Good Friday, afternoon at 2 o'clock. This beautiful works* Is recorded by the Huddersfield

now and then with a number of At yesterday's preliminary' She said that when she got off Choral Society, the Liverpool volunteer dance hostesses. He hearing complainant, Mrs. at her, bus clop at Prince Edward Philharmonic orchestra, directed veread Hilg-Brown has hitherto Hygina Rozario Mallg of Road defendant followed her. In by Sir Malcolm Sergeant with managed to gather some 15 Ladies Housing Estate, Ma Tau front of an entrance in Argyle || Oladyn

to help entertain the seafarers a Chung, Argyle Street, stated:"Streat' she alleged that defendah | Nashepley, Contralto, Heddle

the Mission sociala.

Dennis Nobic, Barl-

Another factor which has cur that shortly after midnight on muted her and that she strug tone, and Normah, Walker, Bass,

gledi talled social activities of the localFebruary 16 she parted with mission is funds,” he said.

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her friend at the Star. Ferry Become unconscious wharf and took a bus home.. Défendant ent' beside her and s- Sho said that defendant choker made advances toward her her and she became unconscious but his advances were rebuffed. When the ramd to temporarily, she

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This work la considered, the most dhting for the Easter season.

At 8.15 am. on Good Friday Rediffusion will broadcast, tho Easter music from Handel's "The Messiah." Other special pro

of Easter, musle will be at

Rw her pocket boole in deten heard at Dam, at 10 am dant's inside; facket pocket. - 10.30 and 11:30a.m. A special Hoving that the man was after Jen programme of classical selections money she voluntarily took of by: Fritz Kreisler, Violinist and hữ ring and handed it overbrandcoast at p.m. followed at Benjamino Gigli; Terior." will be

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.}} 6,30 · by'a progránime" of Negro Defendant sald, that she again Spirituals recorded by Marian stelapsed into unconsciounese and Anderson, Contralto, and the when she next woke up she found Goldin Gate Quartet. herself on the hillside.

Special music on Easter Bud- * day will include a programino Mis Ti-Cathrinn, Autistant called "Easter Day at 8.15 p.m. Director of Criminal Intelligence featuring John 15eugle. At 8 km. Easter Kawloon, gave evidence of taking another programm defendant) "from, his barracks to musile wie Zoature

musie from: Waghre à es obeta the Kowloon Police: City: Statler uppistal and the Furter Carol }:for: questioning..

Detective Sub-Inspector Lowe presented the prosecution's

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