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THE HONG KONG

POPPY DAY.

LE SOUVENIR CHEZ TROIS POETESTM FRANCAIS.

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MESSAGE AND DONATION. FROM H.E.

LORD JELLICOE'S APPEAL TO LOVE AFFAIRS OF FRENCH

HONG KONG.

Special efforts are being made to secure a fitting celebration of the "tenth anniversary of Armistice Day next Sunday, and it is hoped that

POETS.

LECTURE AT HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.

M. Dufauro de la Prade, the

STOLEN METAL CASE.

DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th, 1928.

ACCUSED HAS FIT IN THE DOCK.

A FRISON SENTENCE.

women

ROUND THE COURTS.

TWO THIEVES AT KOW- LOON MAGISTRACY,

SNATCHER SEVERELY

PUNISHED.

Rowe Terrace, Kowloon, remarked Mr. Loacty, who prosecuted a Chinese snatcher at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning. Was

HARD SWEARING FROM TAIPO.

WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE:

TWO FLATLY CONTRADICTORY

ACCOUNTS,

Before 'Mr. Justice Jacks ne the Summary Court yesterday the case was continued in which the Wo

Shing Lung ish shop at Taipo sued

the Colony will send Henre a record French Consul, gave a long lecture the dock charged with receiving a suitable place for this particular Lee Wo Huen, a fisherman, for an

Shricks from

relatives following the collapse of a Chinese named Wong Yan Chu who was in sum in aid of the late Earl Haig's at the Helena May Institute yester quantity of mutal stolen from the

alleged debt of $331,60, day on "Le Souvenir Chez Trois Hop tick factory at Causeway B47 point of view of the thief who has Fund for disabled Service men..

His Excellency the Officer. Ad Poêtes Francais. He illustrated marked the conclusion of the case a good chanes of escaping by runerho of the case in which the fisher- ministering the Government has led his meaning by a description of at the Central Magistracy yesterday aing across the field at the rear of man got $500 from the fish shop

the way with a handsome donation to Poppy Day fund and he has also

peal:-

the ladies who inspired the three afternoon, poets in question, Lamartine, Victor

crime. Suitable that is from the

the Terrace.

This it will be remembered is an

proprietor for wrongful arrest.

Mr. G. S. Hugh Joses appeared for plaintiff and Mr. A. ol Aroulli' for defensinnt

Mr. Lindsell had just left the

It appears that last Saturday issued the following personal up- Hugo, and Alfred de Musset. With Bench alter pronouncing a prison evening an European lady had a true French gallantry he described sentence. Prisoner had been stand- the personal charms of each of ing near the front rail of the dock bag snatched out of her hand by a young Chinese who darted

The shop in question had changed since the proceedings commenced these Indies, a delicate and lovely

down the passage at the side of hands since the debts were alleged wishes the Poppy Day Sub-Com- Créole, an actress and the Famous in the afternoon. Shortly after the Tanaka's shop, and was eventually to have been contracted.

George Band. The burden of his scatence was conveyed to him by caught by a postman in Chatham plaintiffs hold that the transfer was

the interpreter, he appeared to be discourse was that an emotion is

The thief, hoping to de- in order, having been passed by necessary to the development of an swaying about from side to side and

poet and that that finally dropped on the four in what fract his victim from the pursuit the Taipo Chamber of Commerce, threw away several articles from the defendant claims that it was Nations realized that peace, which emoting is more potent in the case appeared to be a fit. The Court is pocket, but the lady was more not lawful and is calling two former !

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the Officer His Excellency Administering the Government their mitter every success efforts on Armistice Day.

This tenth anniversary of the day which brought the Great War to an end cannos fail to renew those feelings of relief with which the

far over four years had seed so far off, had at last become a reality. That relief can best be expressed in the response to this annual appeal in aid of those who suffered in the war, and is Excellency is confident that Hong Kong's response to this tenth, appear will be prompt and gener- oas, and will prove to those who lock to the Poppy Day lund for

artist or E

aru

of an irregular love affair. "Fifty years of love," he quoted, better than marriage?

The word Souvenir has in French three meanings, (1) the impression which remains in the memory: (2) the faculty of memory itself; and, (3) the present which is given on

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While

The postman was warmly com- plimented by the Magistrate, who imposed a sentence of four month hard labour and twelve strokes of the birch on the defendant, who metal were sentenced to terms of had been convicted and birched

was thrown into confusion with the relatives who had been determined than Atlanta and kept partners to say that they had not sitting on the benches sending upon.

been told of the transfer and there piercing yells. One woman had to be ejected. Meanwhile the prisoner

no authority for it to be recovered and went of again. He

effected. appeared to be in a bad way and was removed to the priser hospital At the earlier proceedings, two men who admitted the theft of the

assistance that time has not dulled parting as a reminder of the donor.1prisonment. Defendant was enarg for unlawful possession only ten

the memory of their heroism. Mrs. Southorn has also been very

busy and all who read the excellent article from her pea published aj few days ago cannot faft to have been stirred by it.

Mr. J. K. Shaw of Mesars. Jardine Matheson & Co.. is the Hon. Treasurer of the fund and he will gratefully receive contribu- tions thereto,

Personal Service,

The success of Poppy Day is as much dependent upon the giving of personal service as the giving of money, as to a very large degree those who help financially need to be offered facilities for doing so which can only be provided by thoat who give their own services.

De Lamartine. "Alphonse Prat de Lamartine found his Egeria in Julie Bouchard des Hérettes, a delicate child of Créole extraction who was born"ia St. Domingo. Her he rescued from In Paris alum and took her to his property in Touraine where she gained in health and beauty. He owed to her his spiritual concep tiens and she showed him her clear

ed with receiving the stolen metni from the convicted mat who were days previously. assisted by two others in the theit. A foki of the defendant was also INDIAN ASSEMBLY MEMBER involved in the receiving charge, but the man was later discharged and gaye King's evidence:

ROBBED.

Mr. Hin Shing Lo prosecuted in

A member of the Legislative the case and Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, sen., represented the de Assembly of India, Mr. T. Chal fendant. During the address turers, who arrived bere by the ss.

Kashmir 03 the defence, Mr. Leo d Almada è

Wednesday last, Castro, jun, arrivedi ia Court and charged his Indian servant with informed his Worship that he had the theft of a E5 note, a £1 note aad twelve shillings, while ап the received instructions from Mir.

Kong.

and understanding soul. The lake Remedios to watch the proceedings voyage from Singapore to Hons

beside which she died was ever in his mind and she was the inspira- tion of his wonderful poem Ze Lack".

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to whom the

on behalf of the Tai Ching marine store in Yaumati metal was resuld by the defendant Mr, d'Almada, sen., smilingly re- marized: My son is against me." Sir. Lindsell replied that as he saw it Mr. Almada's interests and those of his son were identical.

Address For The Defence,.

Plaintiff's fuki having given evi- dence" of serving defendant and customers with. notices. of the transfer of the. business a member of the Taipo Chamber said that -defendant had admitted owing the money during proceedings before the Chamber.

Cross-examined, he admitted that Cheung Tai Kwai, proprietor of the pialulit firm, was last year's chair- man of the Chamber. He denied that Cheung inäuenced the members of the Chamber who were merely trying to settle the dispute out of Court.

Somebody Telling Lies! Giving evidence, defendant flatly denied all that plaintiff's witnesses

8351.60; he had never been notified' of the transfer of business; ho never admitted to the Chamber of Commerce that he owed the money. What did take place before the Chamber was that plaintiff, after admitting an assault and wrongful imprisonment, offered to pay com. pensation and begged him (defend- ant), to let it go at that. Not a mentioned about the word was alleged debt.

had said. He did not owe paintiff

Local Dustom. Before adjoursing the case' till this morning the Judge said that he must consider how much weight could be given to the proceedings of the Taipo Chamber of Commerce The case come under Summary and Taipo's local customis generally. Court jurisdiction where local cus- tom must carry less weight than it

The defendant pleaded that he was accustomed when putting away his master's clothes to remove any Icose inoney. and return it later. The money to question had been taken Victor Hugo.

out of a coat and be had forgotten Victor Hugo was inspired by the

to give it back to his master. actress Juliette Drouet who was 28

According to Sergeant Fowle years old when they first met, and Mr. Almada in his address for prosecuting on behalf of the police, Owing to changes in the person despite the fact that he had a wife the defence argued at length and it had never been Mr. Chalmers cited several judgments of the practice to leave money in his el of the Puppy Sab-Committee it and four children he loved her

Court of Criminat appeal at Home clothes. On one occasion he had is quite possible that many of those and remained faithful to her for in support of bis contention that forgotten his purse and his servant who so kindly helped last year have

33 years. Theophile Gautier, spenk- he had a case to answer. Solienor had pointed is out to him on his not been asked to repeat their

said that at the close of the pro- return from breakfast. When the efforts this year. Needless to say

of her, remarks on her regular section he made a strong point re complainant descovered the loss of their services are very much needed beauty and clear cut profile, on garding the identity of the goods, the £5. note, he consulted the and Mr. W. B.. Cornaby of Messrs. her abundant black hair and the out that was only one point. The Captais of the Kashmir and it was Jardine, Matheson & Co., the Secretatuesque lines of her neck and evidence showed that on the night decided to mark several notes, one tary of the Sub-Committee, will be shoulders For Victor Hugo she of October lata certain bars of tin of which disappeared the following very pleased to hear from any one felt an almost religious adoration were found to be missing from the day. Nothing had been said to the was feels the Poppy Day call. which flattered the poet, and pleas premises of the Hop Yick. Wong defendant until the vessel berted

him considerably more than the Ming, the defendant's foki, who was when the police were summoned. virtues of his dull but excellent also charged and later gave evi Sentence of six weeks' hard labour wife. Juliette was always frank dence for the prosecution, had made was passed. and sincere and told her port that certain statements which all appear. there must always be a battle beed to be in favour of the defend- tween the regular and irregular aut. Last year the sum of 2013 was households. The thirty three years It was also disclosed in the course collected and it is hoped that the of their irregular unien consecrat- of Wong Ming's evidence that A dishonest and vindictive, boise fed them and carried them off to the generosity of the public will enable ed it even in the eyes of poor & bigger sum to be remitted Home Madame Hugo. "Tristesse d'Ulym pic was the poem chosen by the lecturer to show the influence of this actress on the work of Victor Hugo.

The lacal Committee are hard at work organising collections. Street collections will be inade by Ladies on Bunday next, the 11th inst., as usual.

this year.

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De Musset,

How The Foppies Are Made. The Poppies sold are made in the British Legion factory where 240 disabled Ex Bervice Men are come ployed, whose average disability is To Alfred de Musset, George 10 per cent and of whom 54 are Sand came as inspiration. He met 100 per cent, disabled. In addition her in his printemps precise when to these there is a waiting list of he was just out of college, from some 300 men for whom it is prac her he received emotion per race tically impossible to find work in { lence qui lui fait poêle. She had the open market, and Lord Haigmore ambition for de Musact than always laid great emphasis on the even Victor Hugo had for himself, fact that it is part of our work to and it is to this story relation help those badly disabled men to ship that the world owes Puemes employment.

de Nuite which he wrote as a full stop to this distressing amour after his reluru from Italy. The "Souvenir was chosen to represent de Musset.

TELEGRAM FROM LORD JELLICOE.

The following belegram has been received by the local branch of the "British Legion from Lord Jellicoe

the President of the Legion.

BRITISH LEGION, HONG KONG, To all who have so generously supported Poppy Day Fund in Hong Kong and associated districts in China in the past I wish to express my heartfelt thanks and

hope that this year may see renewal of their sympathetic and practical interest.

JELLICOE, A‚F. London, October 17th, 1926.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

ARMISTICE DAY SERVICE.

The poems the Lue of Lamartine, the Tristesse Olympia of Victor Hugo, and the Souvenir of de Musset were read by 3f. de la Prade with great beauty and made a deep impression on the audience.

44 Souvenir" In The Poema. M. de la Prade analysed the poems as follows:-In the Zac the

impression has been conceived by the soul. In Tristesse d'Olympio it was formed by the heart which had received it from the brain ...and amplified it. In Le Souvenir it is in the heart.

In the Lac memory is called upon for a description of the sensations of the past. In Tristesse d'Olympia memory gathers together details of a love which the poet makes typical of all humah love. Is Le Suvenir memory is working on the echo of a passion it, is the confession of For the Armistice day Service in

a wounded heart which at once im St. John's Cathedral at 9.45 a.m.

plores and pardons. In the Lac the Beats have been reserved for the

soul sings, in Tristesse d'Olympia following groups!—

the brain glorifies, and in Souvenir Executive and Legislative Coun- the heart speaks

cila and wires.

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THEFT BY HOUSE SERVANT.

Was

several days previous to the pur- coolic was sentenced by Mr. W. chase of the metal samples had been Schofield to three months hard brought to the defendant of tin labour for stealing money from his which he was asked to purchase, former employer, Sanitary Inspec which defendant agreed to do pro tor Sinton. vided the price was reasonable. Sub-Inspector Hoare said that be witness had the arrangement complainant dismissed the coolie an in mind when the men called with the 1st of this month and gave his the goods, and he naturally sent for houseboy notice to leave on the 10th. his master, From the fact that the On Friday when Inspertor Sister defendant was not in his but at 3 came home at about midnight he o'clock in the morning when the found that 8150 was missing from tin was brought by the men it was a locked door. The bay " clear that there had been no ar arrested but gave information that mangement about buying the tin at led to the apprehension of the that hour, or knowledge of the coolie, at whose house 8107 were tin being stolen property. The de found. When charged be admitted fendant had in pursuance of the having stolen that amount but arrangements made to purchase the denied having taken the whole $150. tin arranged another transaction for the re-sale at a profit to another party in Yauriati and be had certain junks ready to convey the goods. There was nothing extra ordinary in the transaction being carried out at 3 o'clock in the morn ing, though it might be suspicious. In fact, the only suspicious circum- stance was the time at which the transaction took place.

Mr. d'Amada further argued that

the tin was found in a changed

UNDESIRABLES.

A woman who plied the not on. profitable trades of gly brothel and illicit opium den "keeper was some time ago banished for ten years." She was foolish enough to return here on Sunday" but was recognised on the landing stage by

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would have done at the Taipo Smal Debt Court, which had jurisdiction up to $200.

stage an Indian constable separat-

police station.

Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Yesterday morning they regaled. Police Station with a story of how the small woman owed money for lodgings to the other, etc.

His Worship cut charge and counter-charge short with a fine of 81 for both of them, also ordering them to sign a bond to keep the peace. «.

NO MOTOR LICENSES. ·

A number of European and Chinese owners of motor cars were before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow- loon Magistracy for failing to re- new their motor licenses.

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Mr. J. M. Wong who was 'aum- moned for this offence explained to his Worship that he owned several motor-Cars. When be sent his Becases to be renewed on July 3rd fast he owned three motorcars. He sent by mistake for a renewal of a license for a car which he sold to the Fiat Company and not for a new car which he still owned. As soon as the mistake was brought to hia notice he sent for a license for form, but the charge should be in

At the Central. Police Court the new car.

His Worship agreed to diamiss respect of the identical goods stolen

the summons with a caution: at the time. In conclusion, he said labour.

Mr. F. Goodwin, on behalf of the that the prosecution had failed to Six months hard labour and Hong Kong Gas Company also prove the charge to the hilt and twenty strokes was the punishment answered a summons with regard to discharge. he would ask for the defendant's awarded by the same Magistrate the company's lorry. The defendant to 4 man brought up foranid that each year the lorry was Five Months' Imprisonment. stealing a pair of pliers from examined by the Police Department His Worship remarked that there a stall. The man had a bad record and that he had delayed the license The tip and was bunished in 1923 after until the lorry was passed by the was stolen; the defendant received serving a stiff sentence for snatch- Police. The license was stated to amount to 8240, and his Worship imposed a fine, of $30.

a case to answer. WA:B

police officer. yesterday. Major C. Willson sen tenced her to nine months hard

it paying considerably less than it ing.

Defendant was sentenced to five Lamartine makes an offering as a months' hard labour and a stay of priest to his God, Victor Hugo & execution. was granted' until” -11 magnificent present, and de Museet. o'clock on Thursday morning for | the supreme gift of himself.

Mr. d'Almada to fumish the neces

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was worth. He took immediate A man with three convictions, steps to get rid of it by packing it who was banished in 1926 for 10 The local authager of the Simplex in bags and concealing it among years was given six months' hard Plaster Company was also summon- grass and bones: and he sold it xix labour and twenty strokes for reed for failing to renew his car's

license. turning to the Colony, hours later for its full value,

The defendant explained that the car belonged to the Com pany but was driven by him. He thought that the Company had “e- newed the license. A Chinese officer of the Far East Oxygen & Acetlyene Company, who appeared for a similar offence said that the driver of the car forgot to inform the Company that a new license #was due. Both defendants had to pay 810.

SMALL BUT PUGNACIOUS.

Two women, one of them a The lecture, throughout its lengthsary security for an appeal,

miniature Amazon, had a fight re- sparkled with jeux d'aprit and Mr. Lo asked his Worship to makecently in Saiwanho Market. The a subtle allusion to Boccaccio's an order for restitution of the metal fenther-weight knocked her adver masterpiece caused a ripple of to the Hop Yick Company. Hissary down, but then herself got a laughter among the French contin- Worship decided to consider the clout with wooden shoe At this Royal Ancient Order of Buffaloes. gent,

matter before giving his decision. "(Continued on next Qolumn.)

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