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A hundred

years ago

Talos told in

“China-Mall”-files

The war panic, which HO ominously preceded the European revolutions, fins been falsified us, for as we are concerned, and every fresh escape we huve is

bailed an a proof that we are never to have a war. We have nevertheless had some very nar- | for exces, and no small part of danger has arisen 'from the very party which has booked us for a saving of £10,000,000 year. It dia all it could to involve us in a war with Noples,

which would have antalled #

art to with Russia;

this flaw doy think that n stain rests on our public faith because we backed out of that affair, It was more urgent on us to undertake the cause of Hungary

against

Austria, and therefore Also

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1880.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A, Ozorio after their wedding at Rosary Church yesterday afternoon. The bride was formerly Miss Lifan Patriola Thoresen.—("China Mall" Photo),

Wedding

Ozorio-Thoreson

against Russia. Again, nothing Miss Lilian Patricia Thore- was ever more popular in this

our armed demons- sen became the bride of country iban tration

behalf of tration on

Turkey Joseph Augustus Ozorio at

church Against Russia.

Rosary

yesterday

Lastly, if the Russian Gov-afternoon.

ernment were in the hands of

all

the

PERSONALITY PARADE Merchant Philanthropist

The man who has donated ning through the hills above. Ulis] Holiness the Pope. For this Mrs. Buttonjeo was draped in tracti more than $2,000,000 to brewery silo..

Mr. Ruttowice was not interned tonni black, various charities in Hong by the Japanese during the oc- They were struck by the deeply Kong is a modest and retiring cupation. but he was arrested spiritual atmosphere of the papal

and 1044. person who refuses to describe twice, in 1942

On residence, a palace in size and a both occasions he and his son, treasuro-hours of priceless paint- himself as a philanthropist. Me, Dhun Ruitonjec, were ac-ings and books, but still a model

He is Mr. J. H. Ruttonjce, cused of contributing and raising of refined simplicity. leader of the Indian' comniunlly funds for the internees at Stan- The Pope entered, the room clad: here, whoad name is now Identi fled with the Colony's Quitonico. and of being engaged untirely in white, a tall, frail

anti-Japanese setivities,

igure, with a saintly face of Sanatorium, established mostly When they were under surveil- alabaster and a charming umllt. on the strength of his personal luce In 1942, Japanese guards lie greeted the Ruttenices in turn, Renerosity,

were posted around their house and Inquired about conditions in Mr. Ruttonjeo hus long been for some weeks. The family was Hong Kong,

unable to get any food, and seunty When Mrs. Ituttonjve thankert

in Hong Kong. However,

through the bravery and loyally done them in granting thin pri- thorough is his dislike of publicity of their Chinese friends and ser- vate audience, he replied in ย

hut little about him is known vants.

tender, clear voice that he Sulside his immediate circle.

not at all puro the honour was He

belongs to

ngs to that small group;

his. He spoke in perfect Eng Ushi. of non-European British subjects who, having made their fortunes hore, remained to distribute a of their wealth' among In- part stitutions

like the anti-Tuber- culosis, association, various hoя- pitals, and schools.

ពិភ one of

acknowledited businesarion supplies were only made available) him for the great honour he had

most

U

Although he is not a native of tlong Kong. Mr. Ruttonjce is a ocal landmark today, Ifle name is familiar to hundreds of people

Correspondence who have, directly or indirelly,

The Editor takes no restionalbi itu for views expressed in letters by correspondents, and by me means

mecessarily agree wiķi them,

MAN'S PILGRIMAGE

eusands of pments,

the

vince

beneated during 30 years from his unciding dispensations to charity He was born 70 years ago in the little town of Bulsar, Pro- of Bombay, India, нія parcate, the late Homunico and Dino Buttonjee, were Parsees. Hormusje maintained a little business in wines, spirits and pains to initiate his son in the provisions, and went to much

trade.

An only child

In 1044, aller having been retained in prison on remand for nine months, and subjected to

A religious man

WAS

The Itoman interlude a signi❤ fleant to Mr. Ruttonjee because he ia a religious man. He regards religion as a concem of the sout, and is not prepared to condemn any variety of it, since in the main they all serve a purpose

All religions, he bolleves, arg working for rann's spiritual well- being in this very materiallstic oke. The awful fruits of prosE materialism, which have become more evident your by year since the end of the First World War, have awakened him to the need for a deeply spiritual foundation His political views are dictated by the calm of Hong Kong, where he has lived all his life in cir- cumstances of congeniality und wealth,

He supports the govern ment here with unstlated loyalty.

Like all Indians,

ho relishes probing into the depths of human

should

DOŁ

The bridegroom is the son of Paul, it would certainly have the late Mr. J.G. Ozorio, and Mrs. demanded satisfaction for Mr. Ozorio. The bride is the daughter

of Sir,-As the shores Cobden's offensive and menacing of Mrs. Lilian Mary Thoresen Pacifle boomed to the sounds of expressions towards li, especially and late Mr. Thorbjorn guns. on the occasion of the loan, and Thoresen, formerly of the Treasury Ballinna set World tension to an troop movements in the de Department. not receiving it would have de-

even higher altitude, threatening clare war. Besides these In- The bride is a keen participant to quite another World conflet stances, in which our selt-called in Girl Guide activities

He was able to devote much nt»

thought for a philosophy of life. economists were themselves the Colony, and is captain of the 2ndollars into

in the Nations are pouring millions of

of reflection, he while

After decades tention to the boy becausa J. H. Instigators of war, there have Kowloon Troop of Girl Guides.

was the only child. Mr. J. H. Ruttonjee, C.D.E.

has come to believe that while are on the Rutlonjee Will

faith, hope and charity" are been-nay there are still, and

The bridegroom in scoutmaster verge of starvation. Whenever we His mother was inclined to spoll

usual Japanese continue to be causes and proof the 18th Kowloon Scout Troop nce at the hendilines of news him, after the fashion of Parace the

tortures, fath glance Vocation of war, for which their and District Scoutmaster (Seniors) articles in magazines or liet

who are betweer

parents

completely father and son were sentenced, ecessary for, humanity's spiritual

development, philosophy discovers no rancoy Kowloon.

he

#book, we read of carried away by the appearance to five years' imprisonment each forget that the greatest of these pages of Dy prevention. The abominable.

Reverend Father H. de Angelis a world in a state of chaos, of

of of a 2 son and heir.

Liberation, In 1945, was absolute la charity. But really the most common of officiated.

new and more terrible weapons of

His father, Ilormusice Rutton- for the Ruttonfees in every sense

He says:

7s: "Our first duty is to ali wars, are those which

you are

The bride, who was given away war

and being invented,

our less fortunata fellow-men. I jec, came to Hong Kong In 1889, of the word. of Involved in you cannot say how by her grandfather, Mr. HS diplomats confused by the person and his wife. His selection business

for he After the war, the Ruttonjec always bear in mind what the He subsequently sent

was Iri, a shambles. or why. A stupid little quarrel is Markham, looked radiant hatched by some busybodies gown of white nylon marquiselte Such is the situation today. about some person, or thing, or Her tulle veil was attached to r

But looking back: over

the was fortunate, because the Colony on him during his long impri "Happiness comes to transaction, which the nation has coronet

need

Undeveloped sonument, the elder Mr. Ruttonjos brings happiness to others." pearls. She stairways of history, more of

then largely

Although is a busy public

he never heard of, till it is

of the fold carried a

a bouquet of tuber roses. four years ago on that memorable and anybody with a new iden worked untiringly to restore order

He reorganised his Agure he is President some Ane morning that its honour The bride's sister, Mrs. Kristine night of August 14, 1946, is a and sufficient energy could settle to things. solu stoff, was matron of is engaged and It must go to war.]

the Hong Kong Brew-ong Kong Society for the Pro- reap a fortune. honour, night many of us will remember Who in this country knows or She wore a illae Chinese silk gown with

amazing clarity.

The elder Ruttonjees with cry, refurnished his hours, his teetion of Children: Chairman of Every limited cares one straw about the Kingi Dr. H. L. Ozorio, the bride newspaper in the world had these

a committee member Society, & com Hosip

contacta. In a few monilia the

tho Hong Kong Wa was fictionlng pro-) Kong quite different from what old firm

Funds onts Ends." It was then that we began

member of the Public It is now, The City of Victoria perly again, and he decided to

Committee

attd fo dream of a world in which the battleships would- rust in the har- was smaller. In those days, but go on a world tour,

With his wife and his grand-member of the Court of the Uni- look at the wide harbour. bour, and the bomber and fighter one planes rot on the field.

the traffic, and the market wall daughter, Miss Vera Desni, heverelty of Hong Kong-he finds and the United time to motor down to Sinnley ing to be tapped, convinced visited Europe

where he has a country house Hormusjec

Rutionjee that he states.-

right thing. He at ODCE

Silva,

in alexity of international problems of Hong Kong as a new home Despite the liners which grow/2droastrian scripture tells us:

than

was

down to

and

who

of Mosquity, or the Isle of Tigre, groom's brother, performed the two words on its headline, w talluggamited capl-properties, and re-established his the Hong Kong Model Housing

War

The smoke of war cleared, re-

or Mr. Finlay, or Don Pacific, or duties of best man. the islands of Cervi and Sapienza? The reception was held after If the three gentlemen here the ceremony at the Rosary mentioned had been bung this day Church Parochial Hall. inst your, and the three islands had The newly-wed couple will disappeared in the sea, it would spend their honeymoon in the

Territories. The not have excited the smallest pon- New sible uneasiness to a soul in this going way dress was a sult of seciting their homes. In Europe country,

of Blue shorleskin with white acces- as well as in Asia, hungry people and in the press other matters might, easily have sories.

roamed here and there in search escaped notice in the public journals.

o

t

મ

bride's eating a plülul sight of refugees had done the minded the firm presented to the King, the Queen

But it we may find CAFE EMPLOYEES' ourselves nesumns at war before we have so

as heard of

FREE-FOR-ALL Wic enuses, how in the world, are we

H. Ruttonjee and Son,

tindic

Memorial

In London the Rultonjees werden and lien to do some

Limited, I end

except his He has no interesin exce Queen Mary at a Royal establish Garden Party at Buckingham business-over which, at 70, h7 without any of fonti. Violence swept the land and worked hard to

Palace. They also met the Prime still presides,

of retirement-and the on which Jesus had once rodden contacts and promote sales. preaching on earth peace to men was sent to school.

In the meantime, young J. H. Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee.

His father Mr. Ruttonjec, was impressed by different public institutions with of rond will," and in Chinu, be-

the selected

Victoria English the Prime Minister's pertinent which he is identilled.

Tall and thin, with bald deino A free-for-all among employees fore the people could enjoy the

post-war Hong

behind lo prevent it? Here we are block of the Cafe de Chine occurred in fruits of victory, the bills cehol nool, whose headmaster at that Inquiries about

and eyes which glitter the late Mr. W. D. Kong. ading the Placus with an im front of the Chine Building shortly to the shots of rifles telling of a was

Braidwood

The highlight of their stay in heavy. spectacles, once seen he is mense fleet, costing thousands a after 11 am. yesterday and a largo new war.

After school he entered his Europe was an audience with His unforgettable. day.

with all sorts of casualties detachment of pollee, including Amidst these miserles, ther in prospect amongst them three

of members the Flying Squad United Nations was born. This father's firm, beginning at the bottom and working gradually separate quarrels with

France,

and Emergency Unit, were sent world organisation, crammed with Russia, and Austria, all of them, to the scene.

delegates from every where, is upward according to an old In- 'dlan tradition. Hormusjec Rut- for one reason or another, warm Two waiters and two cooks re-making an earnest attempt to tonjec knew his son would one friends

of Greece. Have Cobden ceived slight injuries and were and his friends been able to avertį sent to Queen Mary Hotpal...... the actual renndal and the pros-

pective dangers of this intensely nected with the wants of Cail stupid affair? Neither have we formla emigration, has

solve the its for mankind. But day 11 his shoes, and reflected!

sincerely" Whrls" ̈prace, lurks” a

Indeed; but then we don's pre-an impulse, and given vigour to not want peace that they..ercal the whole aspect of the wines!

tend to cut down the national ship expenditure by £10,000,000,

year. The Times.

Gold Rush

[#nogather unprecedented in that drug they have resorted to that when he conte

Counterfeiting

A large counterfeit ring' is reported to have been broken Jast by the Macro Police Friday, according to a verna..

from cular report

Madio yesterday,

Four headquarters of the counterfeiters' in' various paría

alas, among its members who that a Cambridge or Oxford de-ring-broken- polcongus influence the

the U.S.S.R. Sree was not as important as u IL becoming unmistakably thorough grounding in the buck- feroived clear that the Soviet Union doesThe young man respected the

haveler steamboat building conquered

and parental decision. and

the

ctudied the resi of particularly in the United States world. For years they have been

the world with pre- and spirits trade so thoroughly "Pre-fabs."

to assume From all over the world we

charge of the enterprise he de heard that houses,

unlawful means of overthrowing in perfecs

thro order to be set up in a short time.

lawful government, and they veloped its prosperity beyond his

father's dreams. On May 24, 1850, the Governor have kept a huge army fur be- ure being constructed for Caif-

Naval Com-vund the demands of defect in May, 1902, and eventually a He married Miss Banco Master of Singapore, the fornia. They range from the mander-in-Chier, several of the Such an army can only mean one ringle roo:11.

tenement of a foreign Consuls and a number of thing-aggression. This, coupled on and three daughters immense ron residents, together with the mem-with recent events, have indicat-born to them. Mrs. Ruttonjee has and framed buildings of three bers of Zelland, Lodge in the ed strongly that another world stood by her husband all there! stories, and of almost every pos- Enst No. 746, proceeded to Feare conflict is inevitable.

country-From "The Folynesian, March, 1850. Lighthouse as a memorial.

A few years ago many of us thought we were fighting the las war, or rather we were fighting a war to end wars. However, the emergence of Russia as a world

were

of the city wore ralded and al suspects takon into cus- tody,

A large quantity of bank- notas acized were those, of. the Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank, the Mercantile Bank of India, Portuguese matce and Jan. Min. Plod currency. The forged Hong Kong notes were in. 50, $50 and $100 denomin. ations.

Macao police are continu- ing their investigations.

ANTLU.S. WEEK IN CANTON

years, encouraging him always form of construction, Del-B Branco for the

to acts of charity—insisting, in- purpose of laying gium, France, England. the Bri- the foundation stone of the Ligh:

variably, that he should make tish Colonies, the South Amer-House, about

to be erected on

is cheques larger than he had ican States and China, are all that rock as a testimonial to the

originally htended them to ba sending their quato..

Inte Captain Horeburgh.

The Ruttonjees enlarged the From New York

and its. Imme:

The proposal to erect a Light power has completely altered the circle of their friends, and Mrs. vicinity alone: 5,000 houses House on

always wears Pedra Branca as a picture. Stalin has supplanted Buttonje--who have

been shipped for El Dorado. memorial originated with

Indian the Hitler; and we row taed the dan-the

EXT-continually Boston, and contiguous places in British and other foreign mergers

Kong's Inter- were confronting just charmed Hong Massachusetts and Maine, have chants in Canton. In the latter before the

outbreak of World national society by the gracious- probably exceeded New York

mess of ber mööner.." vicinity: so that an immense city art of 1830, immediately on the War 11. will have been shipped to intelligence of his death reaching Stalin listens to no. Language Under 15 Governors

Canton Communists “ato' hold- that place, and a subscription was, but that of force. The froo world the entered into

They made Hong Kong their ing an "Anti-American. Aggres which was most must therefore impress upon him earth. The cltica and towns the liberally contributed to by theen the fact that should Russia attack quiet, orderly life, Mr. J. IL Movement" Wock; according to home and settled down to a sion Against Talwan and Korba are thern springTEC, mater

up will be gentlemen. The sum thus raised Democratic power, the Western composed of moro".

Was deposited with Jarding. world, especially the USA, will Buttonlee has Uyed in Hong Kong a despatel to the local varnacu- ala than any others ever bullt Matheson & Co., who, on tingity metallate with such a force. that under 10 Governor Altogether California will prove handing it over to the East-Indie Mosect could be flat within a few an anomaly in architecture, as it Company, with a rare munificence hours after the outbreak of from the hands of Bir Willam

Robinsod, who was is in every other respect. The allowed compound interest for hostilities. shios required for the transporta- the period during which the

In a war waged with Atomic between 1891 and 1898...

country, from all parts of

lar,

As a boy, He received a Frize Now" grind

Work on Canton airfield

ac-

Communist Increased lvitics to improve the Milky Way military airfield in the Eastern suburb of Canton were reported by the pro-National- Fist "Kung Shoung Evening

News" yesterday.

According to the vernacular report, a group' of Burstan tech- niclans and advisers has arrived in the provincial capital to ald' the Chinese Communists in re- bullding the aerodrome and to Install new mililiary installatioris. Thoso

Installations include a

mountain large tunnel in the

will near the airfield which: used as a store. for petroleum, aeroplane parts and, ammunition, suid the report.

The report added that on, July

18, nine Russian Yaks were seen

taking

Airfield. This was followed by the to have landed at the Milky Way

uf about 20 old Sheding Evening Japanese-type planos which flow

nbove the elty for half an hour. As a starter of the movement; Tho

The report contingled that the Governor the Communists held a torch Yaks took off the next day for

About 10,000 people added that the Japanese, plants tinction: Man will always exist. from 1910 to 1925-took a real last night.

Communist came from Monchuria” for. tapalr and

representing the Cur fear should lle in a 'return to personal Interest in Party, political

military and training purposes, ind, Make the dark ages. We have invented greatest undertaking, the estab workers, idɔurers,mteréhante, the Atomic: Bomb, and we will lahment of the Hong Hong Inters and students, partici wall; with it forover hanging over Brewery at Bham Tems which

tion of houses, alone, would form money had, remalied in their weapons we need not fear ex- Sir Reginald Stubbs-in office purado through the city streets an undisclosed destination.

jost

a large fleet, and commerce, con-i hands..

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