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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1929.
AROUND
THE SCHOOLS
BY EX-COLLEGIAN.”
While the University examina-1001, and the management of the tions are over, local schools and Hall is under a staff of Jesuit colleges are still busy with their Fathers. examinations, and it will be an
Catholic students will have the other week or so before the stud-advantage of a Chapel in the Hal}, ents can forget about all question where they can attend to their papers and begin to think about religious duties. results. By the next fortnight, many boys will be thinking of their Christmas vacation, and planning ways and means of spending their holidays.
Queen's College.
Valley Hall Leaguo.
The league table to date is as follows:-
Teams.
SENIOR DIVISION,
P. W. L Pts.
Vernacular 1.S..... 3. ·ង 1 St. Paul's College 9.2 0 A King's College ....... 2 2 0 Ying Wah College ... 1 Queen's Collège
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JUNIOR DIVISION. The school was en fete on their
King's College. ...... St. Paul's College........ 3 sports ground at Causeway Bay on November 30, when the present Queen's College 42 pupils met the Old Boys in a foot-Ellis Kadoorie School 2
Ying Wah College... 3- 1 St. Joseph's College 30 SMALL BOYS' DIVISION.
This is the period when most ball game, and a triangular tenni, Sih Nam College ...
tournament between students, teachers and Old Boys was held.
girls schools contribute their little quota to the assistance of the needy during the festive season. The
Many former captains turned out first of these efforts will he held to play football for the Old Boye, today at St. Stephen's Girls' Col but the passing of the years seen lege, where a sale of work will beed to be a very important factor hold in the Kwok Siu Lau' Hall by and although the Old. Boys had an students of the College and by "all-star" team, they went under those from Fairlea School.
to the younger generation by 4 The proceeds of the sale will be goals to 2. in aid of the Ministering Child. ren's League, and there is little doubt but that the sale will be well supported. Mrs. H. T. Creasy will perform the opening ceremony at
11 am.
I understand that all sorts of attractive competitions have been arranged, and among, the things for sale will be work from the Philip pine Islands, which in itself is a sufficient attraction.
The Yellow Dragon,
The tennis resulted in a draw. The students accounted for the teachers who accounted for the Old Boys. Not to be cutdone, however, the Old Boys accounted for the present pupils by making a tie of it.
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Lingnan University.
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The Lingnan University will ceic. brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its establishment at Hong Lok. Canton, on December and 7, with an elaborate programme running through the two days. Among the main features of the celebration will be the dedication of the Agri- cusurat Hall; and breaking ground for the Engineering Building. These formal ceremonies will take place on Friday, the 6th, beginning at 9.30 1.m, followed by the unveil The school's football final resulting of the Wisner memorial tablet, ed in a win by Class 30 who beat the agricultural conference, pre- the non-Chincee students by an odd goal in three, the point being obtained after extra time.
The
King's College. University examinations
results 01
their.
The November Fellow Dragón is. just out, and contains much in-being ever, members of Class 1 are teresting matter, particularly ab now having sorbing being an article on the Chinese stage by Mr. P. H., Liang, a teacher of Queen's College, who has a very entertaining style of writing and has a fund of material at his command. The article, which is continued from previous issues, deals this week with Plays and Playwrights, and in most interest- ing reading
Ricci Hall,
Boys who have taken the Matri culation examination this year and who intend to join the University in 1820 will no doubt be interested
to hear that a new hall-Rieci Hall -will be formally opened hy His Excelichey the Governor on Dectin-
her 10.
The Hall is named after a die tinguished Jesuil. Fr. Matteo Ricci, who first introduced Western science to the learned scholars of the Imperial Court at Peping in
30 YEARS FOR EX-FASCIST.
FORMER COMRADE OF. MUSSOLINI.
MURDER RECALLED.
short spell while boys of the Junior class have tem- porarily heen promoted to Class 1, pending the examinations.
Both the scaler and junior vol. ley-ball teams have been doing well, and are fighting their way up the league very promisingly. The juniors lost their first match to Queen's College, but afterwards bent, St. Paul's College, who in turn accounted for Queen's. Ellis- Kadooris School is still unbeaten, and it looks very much as if there will have to be a desiding match at the end of the season.
of academic papers, sentation athletic contests, and evening entertainments.
Academic procession, anniversary Eervice, alumni meeting, costume parade, military dril, Boy Scout exhibits, football, banquet, play, moving pictures, etc., comprise the Programme for the second day. In addition, many departments of the University will hold exhibition on to include biology. both days chemistry, physics, history of the Institution, agriculture, sericulture, the sub-collegiate schools, and Students' Christian Association,
The Agricultural Hall, the first building of the College of Agricul ture, is & gift of ten Chinese friends, while the Engineering building is the first building of the College of Engineering, a new
college created by the Ministry of Railways.
The Wiser memorial tablet is a tribute of the student hody to the bearer of the name, who is one of the founders of the University, and a former President and Dean. The University will also take the op-
Members of the New King's Col-portunity to show gratitude to all ege Ambulance Division have been of their names, unveiling memorials its supporters by the publication supplied with most of their equip in ment, and at present drills are held once a week, on Sunday morn ings. It is anticipated that they will put forth a good ehow at the coming competition for the Ralph's Shield.
£150,000 PEARL MYSTERY.
THRILLER OF REAL
LIFE.
GANG ARRESTED..
various Farms, дос halding special receptions. Many promin ent agriculturists of China will pre- sent papers at the Conference. A number of the Faculty will give addresses in various lines of study, rentatives and other notables will and a group of 'Government repre-
be present at the festivals,
thrilling The theft provided a crime story.
The late Mr "Max Mayer paid £123,000 for the pearls in 1913, and insured them for £135,000. lle hoped to sell them for £150,000. They vanished in the post on the way from Paris to Mr. Mayer's office in Hatton Garden. They were eventually found in a matchbox lying in the gutter in an Islington street.
They were posted in a registered packet in Paris. The packet was Cesare Rosai, the former bead of "When,"
writes Mr. Justice
paseed from man to man, in the the Fascist Press Bureau, who was Travers Humphreys, "I was inusual post office way, every man considered one of Mussolini's right-vited some years ago to take part signing for it, and was finally de- fivered and placed in the safe in hand men for many years, was gen. ia a debate on the subject, Is Mr. Mayer's office until he arrived. tenved in Rome to thirty years' Truth Stranger Than Fiction?' When he opened the packet. it con imprisonment at the end of his
tained lump of sugar. trial before the special tribunal for the defence of the State,
Amnesty Granted.
related the story of the loss and recovery of Max Mayer's pearls' as leing at least dramatic as anything found in fiction."
He was accused of having plotted against the Italian State and with Mr. Justice Travers Humphreys, having conspired with its enemies then Mr. Travers Humphreys, was abroad to provoke civil war, and junior counsel for the prosecution to overthrow the established Gov at the trial of Cammi" Grizard ernment of the country. There and his accomplices, at the Old were further charges of sharing Bailey, for the theft of the world's in conspiracies against the life of most perfect pear) necklace. He Museolini...
has now
written a foreword to "The
Great Pearl Robbery of Rossi's break with the Fascist 1913," by Mr. Christmas Hum- Party occurred after the murder, phreys, and recently published. in 1924, of the Socialist deputy (Heinemann, Ltd., 196., ed.). Matcotti, who had been a bitter critic of Fascism. The murder pre- voked a storm which threatened to wreek the Fascist régime, and Rosi and several of his associates were imprisoned and charged with the
eríme.
He was found guilty and sen- tenced, but was granted an amnesty, He came out of prison a violent anti-Fascist, and fled to France, where he became a leading figure in the campaign against Mussolini.
uce at foot of neat torty
önfinues
(Continued on next Column),
His arrest took place just across the Swiss-Italian frontier in Auguet last year. He had been staying, in Switzerland, and it was stated at the time that he was lured across the frontier by a woman companion to a point where her police con federates were awaiting him.
A reward of £10,000 was offered. Some months later came the thrill- ing news that a gang of men had heen arrested in a London Tube station. Yet they had not a single pearl among them.
Amateur Detectives.
What seemed certain was that,
before the packet was delivered at Mr. Mayer's office, it was taken:
the office of Simon upstairs to Silverman, was there swiftly slit | open, robbed of the pearls, rescal ed, replaced in the postman's bag,
and delivered to Mr. Mayer.
Two "amateur detectives" solved
the mystery-Mr. Samuel Brand- stetter, diamond merchant, of Paris, and his cousin, "Myer Cohen Quadrastein, also a Parisian dia- mond, merchant.
Brandstetter met in Antwerp an Australian named Leisir Gutwirth, who eventually confided that he. knew where the stolen pearls were to be bought in London.
Quadratstein, and Brandstetter came to London, were introduced to. "Cammi" Grizard, the organiser. of the crime, and at last, in a Halhorn hotel, bought two of the stolen pearls for £4,000. Definite His trial was completed within proof of posscasion of the stolen The property by Grizard and his gang three and a half hours. charges brought against him ren- was thus secured. Grizard, Gut- dered him able to sentence of wirth, Silverman, and "Jim"
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