1950-06-02 — Page 3

PRO's talk to Y's Men

Changes in China as seen through eyes of foreigner

plea for the preservation of all that is good in old Chinose customs, tradition and ways of life, was model by Mr. W. Gordon Harmon, the Hong Kong Government Public Relations Officer, in a talk at the Y's Mon's-wookly luncheon yesterday.

Mr. Gordon Hormon was speaking on changes in China during the past 30 years, seen through foreign eyes.

Deaths from tuberculosis

Boventy-six deaths tuberculosis in

from accond

week of last month brought the total deaths from the gie- CARD since the beginning of the year to May 20 10 1.168.

In the same week, 170 now chess of tuberculosis were co- glstered with the health authorities.

There were also two deaths from diphtheria, two from enteric rever,' and two from measles.

Total deaths from ali causta in the wook under review was 348 as against 797 births.

Committal proceedings at Kowloon

eBarged wit' armed rob- bery, possession of arms and after ammunition, accessory the fact and receiving stolen goods, six men and two women faced committal proceedings before Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Kowloon yesterday.

and

The censed were Lam Kou ng. Yu Chan-fal, llo Yau, Shek Lom Koch-wah, Wong-icung, Koon-fe (woman), Chau Ling

second accused), (wife of Chan Seung-ng-

The list five defendants were charged with robbing the occup. ants of 3 Tul Pel Tau Village. Un Long, of $500, 100 Chinese silver dollars, watches, gold rings and clothing on March 19.

with

were

He said changes in a coun- try are after more perceptible to a foreigner than to its own people."

Reminders

Organ

Today

John's

-Recital, St. Cathedral, 1.10 p.m. Wonton's flection, European YMCA, dressmanicing, 10 auth Nine Dragons Services Club,

* "lombola; `8*p.m; · · Ontori Jack Club, Dance, 8 pa

p.m. Cheero Servicb Club, amateur

night, 7.30 p.m., Musical Evening at English Methodist Church, Queen's Rond, East, 8 p.m. Talk on "True Origins of Jap

anese Monarchy by Prof. Tingseng Shen-fu Wel, at British Council Library, 5.30 p.m. Whist Drive, Kowloon Union

Church, B p.m."

Coming events

TOMORROW Cheere Services. Club, Tombola,

Club,

7.30 p.m.

Nine Dragons Services

tombola, 8 p.m. RAF Air Display, at Kal Tak

Many of these changes come over us without our being con scious of them, and it is only pan. when we look back over the years that we know how much the world has clianged, saldir. Gordon Harmen.

The speaker recalled that his father came out to China around 1880 ad ʼn missionary: In, thuse days all 'the menfolk had queues. and his father did not disdaini wearing a queue himself.

Thon in those days there word segregation jar mon and women, and even in a church congregation there was a cur tain dividing the menfolk from the womenfolk. His 'mo- thar was often, embarrassed as, being the afganlet, she had to be with the choir 'who were ali nien.

Mr. Gordon Harmon was born and bred in Chlup, and it was not until around 1910 that he for was sent home to England his education;

Men and women dancing to- unheard of in his gether was poyhood days, and he recalled nat when un elderly Chinese and his German wife danced together in Shanghal, in 1908, believed to be the first case of the kind China, Mr. Gordon Harmon rush ed back and told his mother what a naughty man the culprit

WAS.

The ultra-modern

י

SUNDAY

Toc H classical concert, 50,

Macdonnell Road, 8.30 p.m. Nine Dragons Services Club, film ****** show, 8 pm HK Art Club, sketching party to

Stanley, members to meet at Queen's Pler, 10.30 am.

Peking wants seat at ICAO

conference

***Montreal, June '1.

CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1950

Kowloon Police get medals

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SKYROOM

PRESENTS:

A number of Police officers attached to Maintand stations were presented with medals yesterday ke the parade ground of the Polloo Training Bengol, The Commissioner of Police, MY DIW.Madintosh, diefelbuted the awards." (Mayfair (Studio) // get drogoman an

Father Ryan addresses Kowloon Rotary Club Father Thomas F. Ryan, SJ, was the guest speaker

Gunmen

get stiff sentences

of the weekly luncheon of the Kowloon Kotary

Twelve years hard labour at the Peninsula Hotel yesterday. Mr. Club

and 16 strokes of the case was Elmer J. S. Tsu prasideda Macaya me

the penalty meted out to three Speaking on the subject of "Italy for the Tourists"

men at the Criminal Sessions Father Ryan, who recently paid a visit to Italy yesterday in connection with a shooting trachs in Hollywood A few minutes after the

on his way to and back from London, said

Road on March 28 in which second meeting of the Inter-

that of all the European countries he had

one of the defendants, a police- national Civil Aviation Or-

known, Italy is the most fascinating.

man and two passers-by Were ganisation assembly adjourned

all injured by another defen here last night, a message

"These glimpses of a land During April this year andant.... from the Chinese Communist that I once knew

average, of 139 patients were 85me women very well

relatives of the Government arrived, demand- brought back to me memories sreated, "dally and during May prisoners sobbed bitterly after the

224 were treated daily." ir ing that its own delegates

verdicts of guilty on unanimous In answer to questions put to all counts had been returned by should replace the Chinese of visits to Italy which touch- ed almost every part of it Nationalists.

himh by Rotarian L. Starbuck; Dr. the jury of "four-man" and three the from the 'Alps.

to Syracuse," "Hua of the clinic, said that wan who.

women

deliberated: all The message, passed by

there are more trachoma edies in through in lime-one and a United Nations Secretary-General; said Father Ryan

"In the years before I came to Kowloon than those who are be-hair hours in all Mr. Trgyve Lie, said the Nation-

ing treated and that the disease-Sin allts Kong Tao, war alisis no longer represented China Hong Kong I happened to visit

Hua-sold and

increase. Dr "must be driven out" of the many countries on the Europeans on the organisation

Dough never 'just 'as

that most

the

wounding: Having previously guilty to 波 robbery and of all

fall persons who night and was expected to acquainted with France, Belgium,

Holland, Spain,

Switzerland and a stated that of

given 12 years" and 16 and and had the disease, 50 per cent came Nationalist China has been an Italy and parts of my ples from the lower income bracket, strokes by Mr Justice Gould, ICAO member since the ground-Austrin, but of all the countries five to 10 per cent from the Senior Puigne Judge. work of the organisation was laid that I came to knew I returned middle and two per cent from the

to italy five years ago, and its delegates with the greatest dolight

income bracket... red it more than und though 'entertid

The Kowloon Hotary Club ex- are fully accredited.

adoben umes I felt anew the pects that when its clinic for the thrill of its fascination avery free treatment of trachoma Is time I crossed tis' frontier. "

built in the near future, it will be; do not think that that was able to take care of twice as many No Chinese delegate attended

altogether a personal thing, for if patients as it is at the present yesterday:

Chief country 'which is not one's own fitne Sir George Cribbett,

a particular attraction British delegate, fold the mast-exercises

for

It is because it has anyone Ing that Britain still believed in

'plan for joint ownership and many special qualities, and some at least will attract operation of major international of the de

others as well. air.routes.

le, the

All those qld prejudices had reply today. gone, and in their place there seems to be a rush for the ultra modern that the people ure learn ing from the West, a tendency which Mr. Gordon Harmon der plored.

Also gena werd the samall bound fact of the Chinese womenfolk, but the speaker had no tears to shed over the pass: ing of that custom.

In those good old days, motor ears were unheard of, and travel war by horse cart at three miles an hour, and Mr. Gordon Harmon

recalled travelling thousands of

#

continent

patients treated By angled of 'shooting with intent

Dr.

studied "the message/tourist, and I got very wellinie came from Kowloon.

Dr-arms; he was alto-

International routes

He said Britain regarded this

Armed robbery He kysy and Wong Wal leung were additionally charged commifting an Armed robbery at 26 Kam Tin Maln Road

оп February 25 and Wai-kum of robbed one Warg $1.100 and a gold ring. Sixth and eighth defendants charged with possession of arma and &mmunition and being accessories bitter the fact of arm ed robbery, while the seventh de-

Italy fins a host of attractions, fendant, Chau Ling, was charged

historical, literary and artistic, with receiving sloten property. miles by this mode of conveyance as the ultimate solution of des

such as no other country Young Kam-chuen. of Tal Pel

For offelaldom and the well-veloping International air

show, and it has Tou Village, giving evidence,

·Europe can and economic

them all in gettings or

natural anid that at 9 p.m. on March 19. to-do the more dignified mode of vices on an efficient and

beauty that few countries can while her

Minister, and his foki were listen- cot. Jeyance was the sedan chair

history to alle ja the radio in the sitting and was no raro sight to see The Australian

Thomas..White, earlier. rooni, urmed men, including the chair bearing an important octal nounced the proposal for a world

your eyes.

· the History of"

of 20 centuries first and third' accused, entered being borne on the shoulders of

company. Ho sald. Australie, whose and after tying up everyone in some 10 bearers.

former Labour Government had the house ransacked the premises

The Chiness of old were re-supported the idea, how stood for and escaped with the property mentioned:

nowned for their politeness and tree enterprise in air transport- After evidence WAS given by charm of manners, and in the Reuter

never several witnesses hearing was good old days, one would adjourned to June 3. Inspector think of sitting down to dianer James Hidden prosecuted, "ajan

ing

Gold chain,

cross stolen

.:

Jer

high

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Taichung evacuation plan

To minimise-casualties and

MKE VON MANAG

Bin Hol, who was found guilty of wounding with intent wa given a similar pontanée, si Well'as Ting Tung-hot-who had pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation,

Sin Nam, a fourth man, was given two years for possession of arms and dimutillion after the jury found With 'gally with a re- commendation for leniency. The reason given for the recommenda tion was that the prisoner seemed been hitherto an honest

that he might

have been

men

to have whendubels into

threatened by crime.

The man himself was also sob

WAS defended

bing in the dock He was dcted by Tren des rival--it-bringaou can see damage to property in the A. el· Arculif

without going through all the Correspondents

etiquettes of the table

Yuan

Shih-kai

before.

The prosecution was conducted

ite buildings and in its landa event of Communist air raids. capes, and you can trace the the municipal authorities by Mr. A. Lonsdale, Crown Coun course of every grakt indvement Taichung, Talwar, have for set, assisted by Petective (Sub- In architecture and soulpture mulated an evacuation plan, Inspector A. Cochrane:

printing without ver according to the independent having to The speaker want on

and

́of«r mükorher = ploturb gallery | Vernacular Wah Klu. Yat Fo":|

to

recalí

festerday,

The report said that the scheme.

kwa kwelike some of the random Impressions includes: the evacuation of non- outnumber

that different places of Italy had residents, the aged and crippled, lett on m. from the Lake Dis- the unemployed, those who have subscribers

triat in North Italy, which he no permanent employment and

as the place described

for honey those whe

Junk owner, sons sentenced

tyre, in rentrant durin

so mooners, down to Palermo," the the he have Houses for and arms, tuanze

Mr. Gordon Harmon recalled

Red China's newspapers Thow his father used to receive

quests according to full Chinese have, become fewer and ceremonie ts, and

among have their readers, but they callers was none other than the are, hitting few high in the

Yuan Shih-ka who, when

number of so-called corres Greet tot a young child's China became a Republic was

pondents.

from child

19-year-old girl, Wan Yuk with being just a

satisfied

*

The official government News

de-evacuated from Taichung elty.

Sicilian Spring Naples, he de- scribed as a place where time

and stands sill.

Be

Evacuation of property includes The maximum sentence of the dispersal of the machinery of

Of Florence, Father Ryan old heavy

that it there is only one six trattong giactories three years', hard' labour was

to

dafly necessites to meted out to arjunk owner outside the city, and his two sons by Mr. James Will to vida at KouIpoh yesterday required to bġild their own gir

gold chain and cross led tora President Administrálien" claims that visit in Italy, Florence is the city certain cons and CR for the possess gasent

king. appearing before Mr. J. tried to

Reynolds at Central yesterday charged with larceny.

ANG

Wan plunded not guilty to the got citnrge but ufter the complaluant

to crown

got outed

Paper

A voto.of.thanks to the speaker

SELECT correspondents and the Bopyle

to

Yuan Shih-kal sectoed

with Gordonquite well

Harmon's father and another Independent witness actually offered his daughter

Gordon had Identified her as the person marriage. colicate

مان

Mr

Hopel Daily News has 10,000 was proposed by Rotarian W. 5. Daily News over 1000.

rachoma clinic .' Mel :0. Ciemo, Secretary, announced that, between March 3,1840, and: April 30 this year, 33,280 trachom patients had been treated by the Club's free rachoma clinio in Kowipeni

But a Yangtse Valley observer. in-a-lotter which brrived her 18- day reported that Cano's deve papers are getting Tess neway despite having to many con- 110 explained the so-called

from the child on Wednesday those days when turning down. antributors: afternoto she was found Guilty offer, from his official of the

+

and was sentenced to four weeks Empire was fraught with di correspondente are not paid wri-

le prosecution said that the

consequences. However, the old ters but memberi Zoe varloud red somehow to wriggle othclap Armychool and festiny 1 ther excusa a units, deklinated to contribut

ho the SHile-long

coffmanent, Man Fong, add out? 36. a. Walking along cut Street 4.30 D Wine mon helloved the

Wednenday. She was carrying was only years old: chd there wall chlid, an her back. The war flenty of time ahead f autandorti small baby walked past her, and

bumped into the

oltrying

gay arough all the years.charigen

upon us, and it is only

to omeletpapers,

Latest omòlèr 1-figures sald Chihow. 268 periodion Including 176/d livlpapers, campared with about 3,pod drv. adepth, Nation viist in regirdo..

with under: 2.600,000 compared around 50,000,000 bato

bumepibipant thought we looks back that we know Their combine

different emailibhs are to

of the malted until asanld the speaker int

ing o

He believes that there are so

membered that her baby.

Nationalist stragglers expelled

cald ahelters and put up and bar tols aboard their Junk in barricades for the protection of Chald Peak Bay on May 12). their property. In the event of a The defendants were Chai emergency, they will be evacuated Yiu, aged 42, owner of Junk No. and his-two sons, Chaut compulsorily said the repart 14"

121ean, who is såged 18, while

the other is aged 210, who la NZ DOCKERS

terms in the Juvenile ARE!

PESGARRURES, DURA BAGted that on the morning “on Sub-Inspector KC. Cheng

Decke Zealand

thế

“aringi

Mr. Harold Presidents

of Field Ma

the gener

Two Nationalist Army of the Their content the Yangle coolles, Tsang Ban and Wong Burma

landed on gald chain' and cross round her many thinks Chinese, that are so observer wroldy are a dreary Kul-tho, who neck and on, checking the fourd beautiful and charming that we monotony of meetings of govern Cheung Chau Island on Mon- 1 mono Antepert was made to should not discard them in avour ment vers the Police.

Later in the evening, the de- of what we learn from the West of school children cle. The out day morning from a junk after come of such meetings, if any, is the fighting in Lap Sap Mel, casily prodleted without te help were ordered to be expelled

fendant was arrested by a Poller Constable, she was,

When

Thờ. Pain and

and that she had

come

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The men were charged with

to the New May 12, the police during the Wit-course of inquiry in connection cargo of with another case boarded de ound for Malaya, tendantsjunkoff Castle Peak and founda Mauser and a Re- Executive #gton revolves on board: 19 the Union yili

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