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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BRANDIES.

OUR LONDON LETTER

STRUGGLE OF PROFESSIONAL WORKERS, TO MAKE A LIVING.

SATURDAY GOTOBER 20TH, 1935.

Another feature connected with this extraordinary trial was the wild applaum which greeted the verdica Not Güilty”: The crowd In Court clapped thier hande and shouted à mivel to the

BOTTLED IN COGNAC EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF WEALTH Buoyance of Mr. Justice Swift who

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{FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT JE

LONDON, September 20th WOMEN AND MEDICINE

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ordered everyone entside on the instant- In the stroot there were thousands waiting for the result, and they also roared their approval Needless to say, during the hearing there were the inevitable refer tences, to East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet bappily in matrimony; and it must be admitted that if the experienes of Mme Fahmy teaches any lesson it is a solem warning against the marriage of a Western woman with an Oriental,

AUTUMN SEASON

- 1 learn that there in a steady decrease Lin the number of women who are taking up medicine de a profession. A sure con- firmation of this statement is the falling MARTELL & CO. off in the students entering the London School of Medicine for Women, which offers special facilities to the sex and

When the Autumn Season opens next attracts students from all parts of this month in London it is expected that the country and the Empire The Winter

round of gaieties will be more notable and Sesion opens on October 1st. varied than any that have taken plac

Three main reasons are held account since the war ended. The visit of the able for the dwindling number of stud-Dominion Premiers and their wives, will Nots,

One is the general set-back to give a special note to the entertainmenta women in all the professions since the at most of the great houses There ar close of the war., Woman, however well also several interesting weddings, includ equipped they may be, and it increasingly ing that of Princess Maud with Lord hard to obtain positions. Another reason Carnegie on November 12th and Lady is a financial one, there are not so many Louis Mountbatten's wedding, with the middle-class people who can now afford Crown Prince of Sweden. The King

And the cost of a six-yents' course necessary Queen will spend some time: in London connection with the visit the for the daughter of the house to qualify. Again, public bodies like County ConnctaDominion Premiers, who will partake of with public health departments and child the Royal hospitality at Buckingham welfare contres, etc, are reluctant to

the shape of a State banquet.. Place

The Duchess of York, who is a very engage women doctors while so many ex

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resalt of whooping cough, and women doctors are going abroad except she has still to make her debut as 1. hose, for general practice. They are not join tess at the White Lodge, Richmond. A ing medical mistious in India, for in at present arranged, Princess Mary and stance, because only a bare livelihood is her husband will spend the Winter In offered as a reward for Mrvice. The Yorkshire at Lord Lascelles' sent and will woman doctor who enters the mission do a good deal of hunting, I learn that field must be impelled by motives other a feature of the Season will be the un than material ones.

usually large number of dances and smalk parties. The dancing vogue, which has HARD TIMES AT THE

been often commented on in recent years, seems as popular as ever, mode MIssIONARY BOCIETIES IN JAPAN

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In response to representations received by cable from their agents in Japan, the missionary societies here have issued an appeal jointly to the public to make good the kisses Bustained owing to the earth- quake. The British and Foreign Bibla Society, the Society for the Propagation of t Gospel in Foreign Parts, and the Church Missionary

Society severally give

The struggle of professional workera to make a living in these days is not. however, confined to women. Barristers are having an exceedingly lead time. In saying this I am not referring to the men who have eaten their dinners and passed their examinations and who never) intended to take the work of the Courts seriously. The barristers in question are the men who have qualified and been called to the Bar with the role intention of practising as a means of livelihood.

Last year is described in legal circles as the worst on record. For one thing, there has been a remarkable falling off in the number of commercial cases, as natural consequence of the alump in trade. Local authorities have not been promoting Bills in Parliament to any extent since the war, and for a year or two there has been nothing doing at Westminster in this way. The author iting cannot get the money to push on with schemee dear to the municipal heart of Civil Fathers, owing to financial stringency in the country Another thing is that, since the Assign have been em-fact that will tell in favour of the powered to hear, divorce petitions, most

as indication of the seriousneg of the position. The first named, whose work is in the southern half of Japan, report that to mention one item, the value of the Korean version of the Scriptures des S.P.G. ask for £10,000 as a first instal- troyed at the printers", is £4,500. The ment; and the U.M.S. puts down the m mediate need of restorations at £12.200.

It is not a good time to nok For money for foreign missions, but I have no doubt that there will be a liberal response to the joint appeal. In this country it wonderful how strongly felt is the call of the mission authorities. The disaster in Japan, from its very nature, is also

of this work has disappeared from the Generiuly apeaking, nothing could he High Court, and London barristers who shown in every quarter here for the ape the great sympathy Į More remarkable t specialised in matrimoni precarious Japanese Ft his profoundly impressed

occupation somewhat

indeed, all who come from the Island members of the Japan Society, and. Kingdom. The Japanese Ambassador has express his warm thanks more than once written to the Press tä

Where

In the circumstances, many barristers are turning their attention to commercial pursuits, and a still larger number' are trying to get a footing in journalism,

to meet Street is concerned, their warmth deplore in the disas appearance in newspaper offices does not fer, it is some small consolation to dis tend to lighten the lot of the professional cover that international rivalries, about journalist. It means that he has to keep which we hear to much in the ordinary his nose closer to the grindstone to make way, have not extinguished the capacity a living. One wonders what the lawyers for genuine human sympathy with the would say if there was similar "dilation" woon of others.-H.B. in their own closely guarded profession. OLD BAILEY "DRAMA.

In the Fahmy murder trial, which con cluded at the Old Bailey after lasting six days, there has been enough melo drámapato, satisfy the most.. PEVERGUS appetite for that kind of thing. It ended

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in the acquittal of me. Fahmy, the HONGKONG CICAR STORE, LTD. Frenchwoman who was indicted for the murder of her husband, "Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey- ccmmonly known as "Prince" Fahmy on account of his immense wealth at the Savoy Hotel. All the materials for melodrama were present and, indeed, it some of the things told in Court about the lives of the couple appeared in a Shilling Shocker it would be said that the novelist had drawn too freely on his 'imagination.

There was the Oricutal "Prince" and the white woman who married him be cause she was fascinated by his magni- ficenco and position, and also because she believed his promises about the wonderful life the would have as his wife. But after the wedding she discovered that she was only his chattel. Under the glitter and the show of luxury that the world' saw

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The alleged murder, took place during the night of July 10th whom thunder- storm was raging the worst of the kind sexperienced in London" within living memory. It seemed a fitting accompani ment to the drama at the Savoy Hotel, The public who like to be thrilled by an exciting murder story found it in the report of the trial and the clever News Editors of Fleet Street-saw to it, that they got what they wanted. The Old Bailey was treseiged by people who desired to hear the case and it was remarkable to note the large number of well-dressed Women who occupied the public seats. This in

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