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"MONDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 1927. # ##AMELTEÄTE PRICE: 13 FER MONTE

No. 21,618

线捌拾百陸仟豆萬弍第 日玖廿月玖年卯丁 HONG KONG,

Our London Letter.

STARVING BOY HERMIT.

POLICE AND PUBLIC. FOUND IN A KENTISH WOOD,

XX, P.M. E.M., P.M. | P.X. | P.M. (P.X.

P.M.P.X.

A DISQUIETING CASE.

920 10.07 12,07129)

4.42 5.407.28

2,93 10,19 | 12,19 | 1,84)

4.54 0.07:35

9.49 10.3212;32 | | 1.47||

·6,07 0,157.48

Talpo Market Dep. 7,

9.53 10.36 12,3× | -1,51||

541 619 7.52

Sheangshui".Dep. 7,38 Shumakun... Art, 7,41 |_8,48 Canton

11.50

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10,06 10:46 | 12,46|| 201|| 10.10 10.51 18,61 | 2,063,14 10,14] 10.57. 12.37 2.193.20 3:40

6.38

3.31 0.50 8.09 5.2.8.35 8.07 5,88 6,41 813

8.47

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Kawicon...Dep. 6.40 8.05 9,10 10,00 12.00 1.182.35 3.00 4,35 5.43 7.15

Yazmat.De 6.49 Bhatin.Dep. 7.01

Taipe ...Dep.7.15

Fanling Dap. 7.80

Caston

A.M.

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AL A.K.

8.03 ...Dap deamabun...Dep.7.18 8.05 10.34 11.09 Shenngahus..Dep. 7.45 8,12 10.41 Pauling...Dep. 1.80 8.16 10,48 Taipo Market Dep. 7,40 8.28 10.36 Taipo ...Dep. 7.44 8.31 11.00

Bhatin

Dep. 7.57 8.44 11,19" Yeumati...Dep. 1.11 9.88 11.es

Kawicon A, 8.17 8.0 11,31 11.49

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8.90

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1905 3.26 | 3.07 6.15

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5.56 7,52 6,07 8,03

9.59 10,86 12.28 3,00

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Taipo

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Taipo Market Dap. 8.98 10.66

8,45 11,18-

Yaumati...Dep. 8.07 11,25

8.47

P.X.

11.44

2.58 5.00 5.84 5.66 $.05 5.07 5.41 6,07

1.3. 3.20 6,24

11.40

8.10 5.11

8,07

12,00 821 6.21

8.37

12,03

2,28 4.25

621

12.19

8.39 5.38

12.31

..350 8,51

6.15

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PASSING OF TWO FAMOUS

ACTORS.

{rnou oce ows CORRESPONDENT. }

RUNAWAY PIG LEADS CHILD TO HIS SHELTER.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

Today.

Queen of Spain Bera, 1887. Frost's Descent (Shuang-Chiang). 2nd K.O.S.B. Regimental Sports, Sookumpoo, 3 pm.

Tea Dances: E.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.80 p.m.; King Ed- ward Hotel, 3 p.m., and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 p.m.

St Peter's-Young-Men's Club- lecture, 8.30 p.m.

H.K. Male Voice Choir Rehearaa),

St. John's Cathedral Hall, e p.m.

**September 20th. But for the waywardness of a sucking pig and the eagerness of a five-years-old boy to help to recap- ture it. 13-years-old Gerald Thomp Steel and Coulson's Billiard League: R.A. v. D.R.C.; K.O.S.B. LONDON, Sept. 24th.

sun, who disappeared from his. R.E. and R. Sigs.; St. Patrick's Public opinion is disturbed over bungalow home at Rackinge six Club Warders. the result of two appeals against days ago, might not have been found Police Court convictions in Lon until too late. don, In one case Major Graham During that time Gerald lived in Bell Murray, aged 44, formerly of a wigwam composed of tree brusi- He is now in a very weak the Indian Army, with a distinches. guished record of service, was con-gondition from lack of food and ex- visted by Mr. Mead, the Magis-posure to heavy rain. trate at Marlboroogh Street, for When I saw Gerard, to-day, writes Leing drunk and disorderly in Pica Press correspondent, he was in endily. On appeal to the London hed. He smiled wanly." Sessions the sentence was quashed, and the Court in discharging Major Murray stated that he was eutirely vindicated." In the other, case Mr. Fraucis Champain, aged 35, a double Oxford "Blue"

mother and uncle so much trouble," "I am very sorry for giving my he said. I meant to help them

like the life they live down here, and I am not so very keen in school, but I realise now that it is heat for myself to go to school, and

I will 'return."

and now a master at Bromsgrove

A Letter Left Behind. public school, was convicted by Sir Charles Biron at Bow Street as a From Gerald's uncle, Mr. Collins rogue and vagabond, and for in-disabled ex-Army man, living in portuning in the Strand neighbour a woodea but at Ruckings, and hood. Here again the sentence was trying to maintain himself, his wife quashed on appeal with the com- and five children, and his sister and ment of the Bench that Mr. Cham- her two boys, "on his disability pen- pain was absolutely vindicated" sion, was obtained the story of

Gerald's disappearance,

Uncorroborated Evidence.

The important point to note in each case is that the convictions were obtained on police evidence without any other witnesses being called. It was the word of one policeman,

preferred who

the charge, and on the other side the word of the accused who denied the allegations. But the word of the constable" was accepted in both in- stances, The feeling here among the public is that there is obviously something wrong with the judicial procedure which permits this sort of thing to exist, and an alteration in the administration of the Courts Burgently required.

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"Gerald, whose mother is a widow, attends a school in Hertford. shire," he said.

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"I think he has observed that we have a hard struggle down” here, and he feels that it is up to him to work to help his mother.

"About ten giznica before he was. due to leave for school, last Friday, he disappeaed. We found a letter in which he said he was going to Bearsted to look for work. He was wearing his, Eton school clothes.

Since then we and crowds of

helpers have searched the district. The boy-and-his-mother-have-been in Australia, and she "coo-ed" him, but he did not respond.

Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, K.C., who defended Mr. Champain, de-

"Yesterday I brought a litter of clared in Court, "There would ap- pear to be nothing more dangerous sucking pigs to the bungalow and than for n ynsuspecting person to

ane ran into a dense wood. My go for a walk by himself in Lon- five-years-old boy went off in search Jon,"

There is a good deal at of it. truth in that statement, because asi people with a knowledge of Lon- don are well aware, a walk in the street that is, in certain streets Tt West End-at certain hours may involve one's moral character.

Feed Of An Inquiry. The London newspapers are very htly giving a large amount of pabf city to these cases, and an in- quiry by the Home Office is called for. No charge is made against the police as a body; it is admitted ly the finest force in the world; but the fact remains that at times Forstables are called upon to make decisions which may ruin a man for life.

Frince George.

A little later he returned and said, I can't and the pig, daddy, but I have seen Gerald, and he hasn't seen it either.' I went into the wood but could not find Gerald, but still thinking my son might be right I shouted out that if Gerald would come in before night

would forgive, hira. "About 6 o'clock in the evening

Gerald came in, weak and hungry and very dirty.

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Queen's Theatre; Peter Pan." World Theatre: Kiss Me Again," Also Chinese Picture" Man Lee Chun" (Part II.). Star Theatre: King"

"The Prairie

Theatre Royal: No, No, Nanette! Principal Mail:-Ioward: U.S.A, etc. (President McKinley); U.S.A., etc and Europe ria Siberia (Pre- Canada, America, etc., Europe sia lent Fan Buren). · Outward :

San Francisco and via Siberia (President Taft), 5p.m.

Tuesday. Settlement Day, Hong Kong Stock Exchange. "Entries close for 7th Extra Race Meeting,oon,

Tea Dances: H.K, Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m., and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 p.

Garrison Football League: C. Coy, K.O.S.B. R.E.s; R.A.O.C. H. Bly. R.A., Sookumpoo, 4.30

pim.

Hockey Club 2nd XI. z. Queen'a Regt. King's Park, 5 p.m.

After dinner dance at Lee Gar dena.

Queen's Theatre: "Peter. Pan." World Theatre: North of 36," also Chinese Picture Man Lee. Chun" (Part II).

Star Theatre: "Souls for Sale.". Theatre Royal: No, No, Nanette! Principal MailsOutward: Europe vid **** Marseilles, etc. (D'Artagnan), 2.30 p.m.

Wednesday.

Tea Dances: H.E.. Hotel and

Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Ed- ward Hotel, 3. p.m.,. and Lane. Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30

p.m..

Garrison Football League: H. Bty. R.A. r. D... Coy., K.O.S.B., Sookumpoo, 4.30 p.m.

Hong Kong Football League 1-4 Division L. R.A.F. v. R.A.; K.O.S.B. e. Scots Guards.

Hockey Club 1st XI 3/ead Punjabis, U.S.I.C. ground, 5 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Let's Get Married."

World Theatre North of 36,”. also Chinese Picture Man Lee Chun (Part II).

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Star Theatre: Souls for Sale." Theatre Royal: The Blue Train. Canada, America, etc., Europe ri

Principal Mails Outward:

It appears from what he says Vancouver, B.C., and via Siberia that he had had nothing to ent ex-(Empress of Russia), 10a.m. ept a few wild berries and a few

uita.

ย

manner Ho

The penality imposed by the amusing banalities in a Court is a comparatively trifling that was irresistibly funny.

was really a clever, capable actor one, but the punishment suffered by any man of any social-position-capable of serious work, but he against whom such a charge is pre- came to London as the Johnnie," ferred is out of all proportion to and so he had to remain

No doubt

many readers on your the gravity of the offence. Even i the charge is dismissed it is in it-side will recall Huntley as Lord self-sufficient to do irreparable Plantagenet, the fatuous young harm to a professional man or one lordling in the musical version of "Kitty Grey, as Lord Cheyne in holding a public office.

"Three Little Maids," and in many similar plays. Such inani- His Royal Highness Princeties as By Jove, you do, pour out George, who is accompanied by Sir the ten nicely right in the cup Henry Floyd, intends to stay for every time," and "You sing like several weeks in France. One---what are those things that learns that the visit has been arring when said in his inimitable ranged to enable the Prince to im- way gave unfailing delight At prove his French. All the other one" time Mr. Hantley owned race- members of the Royal Family, es-horses and won several races. pecially the King and the Prince

Lite Of Lord Laverhulme, of Wales, are fluent conversation- aliste in this language; but Prince A biography at Lord Leverhufme George has had very little oppor-written by his son has been publish tunity. He can speak French, but ed, and tells the story of his rise with a very pronounced English, to fame as a Captain of Industry recent, and he is anxious to get as from small beginnings as a grocer at Bolton The founder of the complete a command over the ne- cent and pronounciation as his great Sunlight soap business and brothers. Nothing has been decid-head of many other concerns with by the way, as to when be wilt world-wide ramifications used to

any that the test of good citizen rejoin the Fleet.

ship was to be found in enlighten ed self-interest." He put this ideal The English stage has suffered into practice himself, for he acted two savere losses in Mr. Arthur jen the principle that his own ad- Bourchier, who died while on a tour vancement meant the advancement in South Africa, and Mr. G. P. of all the people whom his business Huntley, who passed away this activities engaged,

ed,

A Famous Comedian.

Thursday.

Ted Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m., and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 P..

*

Garrison Football League: 12th H. Bty. R.A. 7. B. Coy., K.O.S.B.; H.Q. 2nd K.0.8.B. 1. R.A.M.C., Sookumpoo, 4.30 p.m.“

8th Annual General Meeting Hong Kong. Boxing Association, fardine, Matheson's Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

18th Century Music Concert, Helena May Institute, 5:30 p.m.

Conference of Clergy, St. John's, Cathedral Hall, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Steel and Coulson's Billiard League: D.R.C. RA. RE. and . Siga. r. K.O.S.B.; Warders v. K.0.9.B.; Warders v. St. Patrick's Club,

After Dinner Dance at Lee Gar-

St. Peter's Church Young Men's Club Community Singing. 8.30 p.m. Queen's Theatre: Let's Get Married."

deas.

Gene." Canyon,

World Theatre: "Madame Bans

Star Theatre: Call of the

Theatre Royal: The Blue Train.

Friday.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and

Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.an.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m., and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30 to 8.30 p.m.

Organ Recital by Major E. J. Barkham, St. John's Cathedral, 6.45 p.m.

Quran's Theatre: The Tower of The model. Lies."

World Theatre:"" Madame Sans

Star Theatre: Call of the

Outward! Principal Mails:

week in London. Although the town of Bert Sunlight arose along latter never cut so big a figure as with Sunlight soap, bis profita as Gene." the famous actor manager, "he was a soap manufacture he shared with pre-eminent in his own line-that his co-partners the workpeople, and Canyon," of the well-bred, egrecable," silly he made his art collection accessible.

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