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Retired Scot wants
to settle in HK
A Scottish oil explorer who has spent over a quarter of a century in India and Pakistan, said this morning ho would like to settle down and retire in Hongkong. "The scenery of tds Colony
i wonderful," he said, "and the
el
peuple are all friendly BID TO STEAL
cheerful. And of eourse, the place her nice and clean."
Their were the comments of FROM DRUNK
Mr G. B. Westwood, oil ex- plorer in eharge of drilling operations for
Pakistan
Petroleum Company of Karachi after he and his wife had spent Nix day vacation here. They returned this morning to Kara- chi by Swisspir.
Mr Westwood said, "I re- Bread from ny job six years age and returned to Scotland: Bul
! Just router not settle year Inter 1 down. A back in Pakistan,"
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"Now 1 think I have and the plave I would really like to re- the to--Hongkong."
Commenting ta hotel service In the Colony, Mir Westwood zid, "Some of the UK hotel managers should come to Hong- Long and got an eyeful of how roine of the hotels are run here. The service, I found, was mar- vellous, and far better then cli of the hotels I have stayed Britain,"
18 months jail for pickpocket
A 47-year-old driver, Ng'
Chiyuen, who stole О
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ENDS IN JAIL
LI Cheong, 54, a rickshaw puller of 6 Johnston-road first floor, was jalled for 12 months by Mr. T. Morris at Causeway Bay Court this morning for
larceny from attempted unknown person.
Li pleaded not guilty."
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Inspector R. A. Davia said he was walking along Lockhart- rond et 10 am this morning with Inspector J. C. Melenite,
When they were outside house No. 58, he saw accused approach
on American sullor and feel his
fresser pockets,
The railor appeared drunk, the inspector testified.
CHINA MAIL
Caught with skeleton keys
nine days
after release
Nine days after he was ro- leased from prison, a 30- your-old man was found in the streets at night with seven keys intended for! housebreaking.
Before Judge W. F. Pickering In the Victoria District Court
this morning, the man, Chí A pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of housebreaking Instruments and was sentenced to three years.
Chi had 13 previous convie- tions, nine of which were for theft, burglary, housebreaking and receiving stolen property.
Chlet Inspector W. Apps sold that two police constables were on patrol early on the morning un January 29 in Tai Hang- street.
The accused, who was walk- ing from the opposite direction dashed nerves the street when he saw the polleomen. He was stopped and was found to have seven keys.
Two of the keys were of a skeleton type, which could opti a wide range of Iteks,
Cautioned by the polleemen, the accused odmitted the offence and said that he had no
He said they went up to accused and arrested him, but Job, Inspector Apps said.
by Then the cailor had dis- appeared.
Insp! Metcalfe curraborated the evidence.
lep A. G. Wilson prosecuted.
Red packets
purse containing $1.15) Poor familles attending the from a passenger aboard a tram, was jailed for 18 months by Mr Derek Cons ot Central Court this morning.
Ng. living at 633 Chai Wan resettlement arta. s.xin 11 pleaded guilty. He had nine pre- vious convictions.
Inspector Vis Tai-yau
the court
told
North Point Kaifong Welfare Advancement Association at 501, King's-road today received 700 ved pockets of lucky money each containing $5. This was distri- buted from the Fat Choy benefit drive for Chinese New Year.
The Kaifong workers gave put 2,400 bags of rice vach containing 25 s and 4,000 bags of 10 lbs of rice. Neudles manufactured
Na emitted the from welfare foeds sent from the
theft bond the third-class United States and made at the comporiment of a west-bound Kaitong premises were also dis- treo about 3 pm yesterday.
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Chi told Judge Pickering that
he had been released from jail en January 20, after saving a term there.
Possible new
bill on Sunday laws
London, Feb. 13, Mr R. A. Butler the Home Secretary currently is studying the question of Bri- whothor to reform tain's controversial Sun-
day Observance Laws.
Some politicians belleve he may propose new legislation in the Parliamentury ression begin- ning in late Autumn.
A number of the existing laws are more than three centuries
old and they nee complicated by onomolles and by varying loent regulations In diferent parts of the country.
These variations apply to the Sunday opening
shops theatres and cinemas.
There are also regulations governing Sunday sports meet- ings including football, cricket and wrestling matches,
Any change in the law would provoke large scale Parliament- ary controversy and be strictly resisted by the many champions of strict Sunday observance... China Mait Special,
£20,000 award
to crippled 10 year-old
Chester, Feb. 13.
ons
A court today awarded £20,-. 000 to a 10-year-old girl scho has fought back from paralysis to become a promising painter.
"Such courage makes humble," saki the Judge, who gave the award to Pamela Mary Jane Vernon, who wat com- pletely paralysed in a car ac- eldent 18 monitis ago,
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Pamein's lawyer. Patrick O'Connor, called the girl "Intelligent, bright child. She ean move her right hand now and has learned to feed herself write, paint said do other activi- tlas. Sho has been playing bridge and has made a grand slam."---UPI.
District court to hear case
The case egoinst three Chinese police Inspectors, a driving a woman for
instructor and
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RIGHT: Interested students examine one of the displays in the School Science Exhibition, spon- sored by the Department of Education, University held of Hongkong, ond of the University's main building last wook.
BELOW: Mr and Mrs John Patrick Crosfield Lloyd after their wedding ot St John's Cathedral last Friday. The bride is the former Miss Elizabeth Ann Morrison,
dear
The squeaky
piano
C.A. Lejeune
retires Lejeune retires
C. A. Lejeune has finally step- ped down from her chair as Alm critic of Britain's leading highbrow Sunday newspaper. The Observer.
Perhaps the supreme compil-
PRINCE ILL
Peterborough, Feb. 13.
ABOVE: Mrs P. A. Wing
with prosenting a child the gift of a toy during a Chinese Now Your party for children of the Hong- kong Other Ranks serving with 252 Signal Squadron. The party was held at Murray Barracks.
LEFT: Snapped at the prosentation of prizes to winners of
the Anti- Narcotica Essay contest, held at the Secretariat for Chinese Affair, wero (lr) Mr Lam Chun, Mr Lam Keung (1st prize!, Mr Y. C. Tac, Mr J. C, McDouall, Mr T. B. Wong, Mr D. T. Ng and Mr T. C. Chong.
Latest U.S. nuclear submarine
Maro Island, Calif., Feb. 13.
ment paid her upon retire-Prince William of Gloucester, The latest United States
ment was a luncheon given those her, organised by just groups whose flims she hit hardest and praized most, the cinema Eroups and distri butora of Continental Alms. At the luncheon, they presented Caroline with a gold fountain
19-year-old elder son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and cousin of the Outch is suffering from glan- dular fever, it was learned
today. your critic, D.
Concerning the adverse remarks
made by Gray, about my piano, used lu Sunday evening's recital, I should like to state, in fair- nesa to the impresario, that Maleuzynski.played on it the evening before, and said that le was very happy about it, and did not wish to try any other plano.
Malcuzynski practised on 11, at the hall, for the most part of Sunday, and during that mo be said there was no sign of a squeak, it was most un-
that ht had
to
fortunate develop during the recita), but when the legs and pedals have to be laken off in order to get the piano moved, and when it is assembled in a different atmosphere, any- thing is able to happen. That is why the plane-iuner was naked throughout the recital.
BETTY DROWN.
It is understood that the pen which is also a pass for attack is a mild one and is life to certain West End taking its normal course. cinemas and others specialis-
The Prince, who is in his
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25
years AGO
February 1936
ARS J Noah II Sice, better 08 Margaret Sanger, one of America's lead- ing birth control authorities, is due to arrive in Hongkong on February 20 by the P and O liner Corfu. She is visiting Hongkong in the course of a world tour. Twenty-six promi- nent residents interested the movement, held a meeting at the Chinese Merchants Club lost evening for the purpose of making arrangements for the entertainment of Mre Sanger.
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Professor W.C.W. Nixon, wan in the chair and those present included Professor W. I. Gerrard, Dr Arthur Woo, Dr G. H. Thoman, Dr F. I. Tseung, Dr (Miss) Rut- toonjes, Mr Alfred Horria, Mr E. M. Raymond, E. W. Kirk,. My W. A. Zimmern and Mrs Langley.
MEMBERS of the St John Ambulance Association and Brigade foregathered in large numbers at a tea party held at the Gloucester Hotel yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to Dr W. B. A. Moore, District Surgeon and Mrs Moore who are going to England on retirement. Op- portunity was also taken to
say
nu revoir to Mr J. Ralston, District Super- Intendent, and Mrs Ralston, Dr J. E. Dovey, Divisional Surgeon and Mrs (Dr) A. L. J. Dovey, Corps Sur- geon, who are shortly going Home on leave.
The strained relations be teven Japan and Russia have taken a turn for the 100rse with reports of further fight- ing between Manchukuo - Japanese and pro-Soviet Mon- nola on the Manchukuo~ Mongolian border.
In one case seven Japaneso including a lieutenant and eight Mongola were killed and number of others wounded on both sides,
in
another clash near ter-
nuclear-powerad Polaris missile submarine, tho Olohotka in Manchukuo Theodore Roosevelt, was ritory, three Manchuko offi- commissioned hero today. cers Commander William
and five soldiers toere Sims, killed.
her new captain, took over the vessel from etvillan engineers who have been training her ministers describes the
crew in the handling of Polaris
One
of the Manchukuo
in.
missiles during sea trials. Comecident as "tantamount to a ing in the presentaton of Con-cocond term as an engineering to the Charleston, South Caro-claration of war".
mander Sims will sail the vessel act of war, without formal de- Una, naval base to take on mis-
tincatal films.
Among those present were the student at Magdalene College,
respresentatives of the Curzon Cambridge, is at his parents' allos before proceeding on a live Tallsikar has been warned to
Cinema London, and the country home, Barnwell Manor, Cosmo Theatre, Glasgow, rad near here.--Chins Mall Special the special guests were John Trevelyan, secretary
to the British Board of Film Cen- sors, and Father Burke of the Cathelle Times.
No
deliveries of food tomorrow
stand-by Food delivery servicos in the Colony will be suspended tomorrow, Chinese New Your Day, when delivery men will go on holiday, This applies to both bread and
Chartered Bank director due
milk and other provisions.
Delivery of bread will be suspended for two consecutive doys-Wednesday and Thurs-
will make
day.
The milkmen
will
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Sir Arthur Bruce, a director double delivery today to cater alleged conspiracy in connection of the Chartered Bank and of tomorrow. Normal service with the written driving test Walinco Bros & Co (Holdings) resume on Thursday according was transferred to the Victoria Ltd, London, and Me A. F. District Court by Mr Derek Cons Wallace, niso a director of Wal- to a spokemus for Diary Form, at Central Court this morning, Printed and published by Terence Gondon NEWLANDS PLANCH
Pleas of the defendants will accompanied by Mrs Wallace, Peak Store from 8 am to 10 am.
lace Broz & Co (Holdings) Ltd, Tee and Cold Storage Ltd.
ion will be available of the
1311 for and on behalf of Bouth China Morning Post Limited at 1-81 be taken on February 23 at 10 will arrive Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony, of Hongkong. Cam.
Thursday for a three-day stay.
In Hongkong on
tomorrow.
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