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Howa Koso, APRIL 22, 1931.

THE RAILWAY DISASTER 'AT TAIPO.

Tas railway smash at Taipo is by far the worst disaster that has over-

* News and Views

Enthusiasm!

The Eighth Wonder.

"Percy is going crazy over his A doutor, giving evidence at new motor car." "That's afrango. 1 Stratford Police Court, said: "This Every time I've seen him he's been woman was disinclined to any any

under it."

thing. It is so seldom you find that going crazy,

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

CORRESPONDENCE.

INGAGI: A PROTEST.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG - DAILY TRESS."]

·Brondenst talk on "Animal Wớ. fare."

Page 11.

St-In this Colony, where there Full details of Monday's train | is already far too much ignorant smash at Shatin, Pages 7 and 11. cruelty to animals, a fim liko "Ingngi" ought to be prohibited. Hong Kong Stock market: Crou-How can our chase Chiness for ill- that I sent her to hospital for obther & Co.'s daily report. Page 6. treating and neglecting animals. after assisting at a spectacle in which two white men, one with a handle to his name, indulge in a general massacre of every beast they come across, obriously enjoy it and appear to be thoroughly proud of it.

Bezration."

At a secret demonstration of the latest mechanised implements of Women Have the Brains-In U.S. warfare in the Long Valley, Alder- American women have left their shot, a chain of military policemen | menfolk behind culturally, anyɛ Dr.. surrounded the ground to prevent Charles Shaw, for 30 years a pro- the approach of unauthorised per fessor at New York University. He sons. It was impossible for anyone says that men have gone in for to get within half a mile of the physical culture and business, while recluded spot, A large number of what used to be the, wenker eex War Office officinis and officers of have developed artistically and the Aldershot Command witnessed the trials from Miles Hill, which was closely guarded to prevent the use of cameras.

,

taken the Kowloon-Canton Railway, Why Not Hong Kong? and as far as enn he gathered at

Mr. Chun Teen Hai, of Tientsin,

mentally as well as physically. He adds: "If this goes on, in another generation women will supplant men in creative culture. To-day, our men of culture are all women,"

Mias R. M. A. Green, who has

probationer affert at the Contral described by the Recorder of Lon- Oriminal Court, London, was once don sa the ministering angel of the Old Bailey. This gentle and un- and befriended hundreds of her derstanding woman has succoured own sex who find themselves in distress or despair in the stern probationers are needed. But it is difficult to discover women proba-

Miss Greens.

presence of the law. More, women

present it was due to a cloud-hirst having won a consolation prize of been appointed full-time woman in the hills, and a giant casende £1,181 in the Irish Sweep, is of water finding a diverted course frightened to death, says & Home and undermining an embankment. paper. He says that, unless he can le would certainly be satisfactory keep it quiet, he must henceforward if direct evidence could be obtained be a marked man among the local of the occurrence of a cloud-burst bandits. That is the fly in his jam. in the hill district above Taipo, But has Mr. Chun Teen Hei explor. and personal testimony of certain ed every avenue of escape? Surely phenomena would probably enablo

on the security of his splendid prize our meteorologists to deduce what happened; Cloud-bursts are rare and terrifying, and it may be re- membered that sumo years ago the litto English town of Louth was, without warning, washed out, with loss of over twenty lives, by such a visitation,

Charges of attempted fraud in, volving a sum of $80,000 were pre- ferred against to Chinese at Contral Magistracy yesterday.

To-day's wireless

Sport.

Page 11.

programme.

Home racing notes.

Hong Kong Polo, Club

Results of Home League matches are given on

Pago 3.

Page 10.

meeting.

Page 10, football Page 10. Tournament

Page 10,

H.K.C.C.. Tennis programme for to-day,

An amended list of fixtures in the Hong Kong Football League

appears on

Page 10.

It may be necessary to kill beasta for food, self-protection or com- merce, but it should never be # pleasure to do so, and the fact that it is a pleasure to some people doės not make the enjoyment of cruelty any more of a desirable charac- teristic,

There are some things which wo all know happen, but of which we are not proud and which we prefer not to think much about. the proceedings in a slaughter-house for instance. At any rate, we do not get shown 'films of it, or we Equally we are not proud of the might enjoy our beefsteak lens. existence in our midst of the kiler who kills for the joy of it: but there he is presented to us in a serious of scenes of butchery which are not Hollywood" but real. The thing is a carnival of blood- shed, rendered, more nauseating by the fact that the animals are in- Page 9. variably either unsuspecting or attempting to escape. After watch- A manifesto has been issued bying the "bumping of" of about the Republican and Socialist or cleven species of beasts by these ganisation of Madrid, demanding civilized gunmen, I left the theatre tical and criminal charges. Page 9 bumped off in their turn, feeling as the trial of King Alfonso on poli without waiting to see the gorillas

if I have spent an evening in an abattoir and ashamed of my own

Latest Cables.

Senorita Kent, the new Director of Prisons in Spain, assumed office yesterday,

The can borrow enough money to go tioners who happen also to be from his hotel in Paris, for Calais, countrymen.. "It's a fine day-let'a

Hong Kong might be safer than to Hong Kong. And on the whole

Dublin,

The Bine Water School,

Crashing in Comfort?

Two Frenchmen have come to London to try to dispose of an invention which will allow an air- plane to crash without injuring passengers, says the London Daily Express. It sounds incredible, and is not made any easier by the offer of the inventors to equip a chine, if it is provided free, and to crush it (and themselves) from a height of 2,600 feet. No one

ma-

The inquest on the victims, às

An invitation to visit Germany in the case of the King Edward was given at the annual meeting in Hotel fire two years ago, will have London of the Institution of Naval to take the form of an enquiry into Architects, and was in principle the causes of the mishap, and the heartily accepted by the council. In nature of the precautions taken by his presidential addresses Lord wants to assist in a suicide, no British airplano industry should

The departure of King Alfonso where he was to embark for Eng. land, was almost unnoticed,

Page 9.

go out and kill something" reproach too often levelled at Eng- lishmen: it is humiliating to see it The flight of capital from Spain

publicly proved correct.

Films of unrelieved brutality aro continues, and the Minister of supposed to be barred; unless Finance has appealed to the banks brutality to beasts is regarded as to advice their clients to "go not being brutality,

is difficult low," and he threatens severe

to see how this film, depicting re- penalties shortly.

Page 9 volting barbarity can ever have Mayor Walker, in the course of a passed the censor.-Yours, etc... 15,000 word reply to the City Affairs Committee, declared that he had adequately and consistently done. his duty, and that the charges made against him

unwarranted,

were

the British section of the Kowloon Wemyss said with regard to naval/matter how spectacular, but the false and recklessly made. Page 2.

LEAVES OVER A LAKH IN THE COLONY.

H.T.

Hong Kong, April 21, 1931. [Our correspondent on his own showing left carly" and is not really in a position to criticise the film in question. Since the animals killed were, in the case of the lion and the leopards, man-eaters; and in the other instances required for

plain about. Think of all the far pleasanter things that the said felines, the crocodiles and the python would have killed if they had gone on living. No. It is little use being sentimental about deni zens of the jungle.ED.. H.K.D.P.J

Canton Railway nuthorities to safe- | reductions: "To a naval officer like offer every reasonable facility for guard their track and the trains myself, trained in the old blue these inventore to make their case.

Their claim scems proposterous, CANE DEALER'S WEALTH. food, there is not much to com- using it. Considering that the line water school, the situation cannot bat some day-and it is not fr skirts the const for several miles, but be fraught with grave risks for distant-nccidents to flying mu that it crosses a number of streams our future security." Admiral Sir chines will not mean the automatio death roll that they do now. When which the heney rains are at any Vessels we have built since the due to the dreamers and fools and Douglas Nicholson declared that time comca the thanks will be time liable to turn into torrents, and war are not suitable for governing would-be suicides. that there are many deep cuttings the maritime conditions, now affect- and overhanging banks, constant ing the Empire's peace. vigilante is necessary at all times,

and particularly during the rainy SNISON. Mr. G. A. WALKER, the Electric Britain.

aren.

ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

PROGRAMME FOR TO-MOR- ROW'S CONCERT,

radea

Estate in the Colony worth $105,000 was left by Chan Ping U (or Chan Ping Yee), also known by The English Cardinal,

a number of other names, who was Cardinal Bourne was 70 lasta patridge-rano dealer.. month, but looks much younger. I courteous Acting-General Manager The electrification of Great Bri- met him, writes a London journalist. Weat, in July, last year, leaving a He died at 55, Queen's Hond of the Line, explained to our re- tain is proceeding with such rapid not long ago at a dinner attended presentative the nature of the rou-ty that already the Central Elee by many eminent ecclesiastics of the will in which he directs that his

tricity Board's schemes cover 97.6 Toman Catholic Church-the wealth estate be divided into three shares arranged for the concert to be The following is the programMO, tine precautions, and these are set per cent, of the total population, of scarlet and mauve made the for family distribution, and adds given by the Society of St. George aut elsewhere in this issue. They and over 70 per cent. of the total gathering resemble a Meissonier

Grid contracts up to last picture and was struck by his the admonition that "on no account (kindly loaned by the Lee Hysan of Hong Kong at the Lee Theatre. sem adequate to the lay mind, and Decoinber totalled £18,207,829, all energy and the youthful twinkle in shall have stood the test of many years placed with British firms. The an his eye when he made an admir random or extravagantly spent for Day (Thursday):

toy estate be squandered at Estate Co., Ltd.) on St. George's satisfactory working. The paint nual report, shows that last yearable and frequently amusing after that will have to be made clear is cables were laid along 050 miles, dinner speech. The secret of his private purposes,"

PART 1. 1-(a) March-" Old Com- and that by December 300 miles of Eminence's success," my neighbour, whether the precautions do, in overhead lines were in operation. priest, tald me, is his discip

Probate of the will has been

.............. Teike, fact, guard against all likely con- Nearly £10,000,000 will be spent line. Ho is one of the sternent die, granted to testator's elder son, Sing (b) Selection-"The Rose" tingencies. If the railway is pro- during the next few years in stand-ciplinarians in England, but 80 Chiu, alias Chan Sing Chiu, living

(Old English Melodies) ardising frequency by supply ungreat is hie sense of diplomacy that

Myddleton. tected against typhoone, the normal dertakere. This work, will in all those over whom he rules hardly, Queen's Road West.

Band of H.M.S. Hermes, revages of the wet season, and any cost over £18,500,000. A special | realizo this." The Caridnal,' who Eng Ting Ying, otherwise Chan 2.-Danee-Coquette downpour of a kind that is likely problem has arisen concerning in was made Archbishop of West Ng Sze, married woman, who died sulators due to a combination of minster twenty-eight years ago, and intestate at No. 220, Laichikok to occur, then the administration fog and atmospheric pollution has been a Cardinal for just twenty is doing its duty and all that the peculiar to the British Isles, and the years, enjoys splendid health. I am Road, on November, 26, 1830, left public can require of it. We know

Board are co-operating with the told that he sent sympathetic mes-Hong Kong estate worth $17,200. the type of mind that says with National Physical Laboratory in sagen to the Archbishop of Canter- Letters of administration have been determining the best methods of bury when Dr. Lang's condition solemn pessimism of a public utility increasing the factor of safety in was, a few months ago, regarded as granted to her husband, Chin

line insulation. company or service, "They are

Doon, 28, Wing Lok Street. riding for a fall. Sooner or later

unfortunately there are cases when they will learn their lesson." But

well-informed warning falls on deaf It is only fair that the railway, authorities should have every opportunity of telling the publio wint anfeguards they take, and submitting their procedure to For the 24 hours ended April 20, the judgment of competent experts. there were two cases of small-pox, It may be that further safeguards and one case of diphtheria, could be devised, but they are not likely to be of a kind that the the week ended April 18, there was authorities have overlooked, and the one case of smallpox, one death layman thinks of after a fow from enteric fover minutes' consideration. Mr. EVANS, from pulmonary tuberculosis.

and e deaths of the Observatory staff, for ex- staple-explained to us how it in that they are not in a position to

Cars,

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Local Notes and Events

For

Pleading guilty to having. con

Arranged by Miss Violet Capell, 3-Song-"The LittleDamoze!".

Ivor Novello. Mrs. Bowes-Smith. 4.-The Yorkshire Philosopher..

Mr. W. J, Geali." Park-lessrs. Winram and True will Damage the Pianos 'a-Quartettes. from "Flora's

Lane Wilson, Mra Bowes-Smith, Mrs. Portallion; Mr. Annies and Mr. Barton,

PART II. 1-Selection" Pirates of

Penzance"

Sullivan. Band of H.M.S. Fermes. 2.-Dance-Jazz...Arranged by Misa

Violet Cepall. Misses P. Capell, E. Ford and P. Gittens. 3-Song- My Prayer"

W. H. Squire. Mrs. Portailion. 4.-Songs-Selected

A report has been made to the section of the Kowloon-Canton police by Mrs. F. X.. Remedios to railway-Hong Kong Daily Press, the effect that Thomas Rozario, April 21, 1900. aged 13, who is a friend of her husband, had been missing since 10 a.m. on Monday.

The Consul for Japan and Mrs. T. Yoshida beg to announce that, In celebration of the birthday of help the Railway, except in notify-mitted a breach on his learner's of Japan, a reception will be held His Imperial Majesty the Emperor ing when a gals of mind reaches licence, namely by driving his car

at their home, 74, Conduit Road, danger point.

in Henessey Road on March 30 at on Wednesday, April 20, from 4.30 The story of the disaster tells of 2.20 p.m. fr. J. P. Napier-Bell of to 5.30 o'clock. ap further Ageasies will let a wonderful bravery and patience. on the A.P.Cr was fined $10 by Mr. know the Lines in which they are the part of the injured, notably of Schofield yesterday, interested the information will be the bay and the young man who forwarded to London and passed on to interested parties op spent a long night in the wreckage portunity offers,

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Looking Back 50 Years,

H.E. Major General Donovan concluded his annual inspection of the troops in garrison on Saturday morning when a marching ordar

Hospital Corps, was held in the parade of the detachments of the royal Engineers and the Army Wellington Barracks. The men of these corps are employed on special duties, as indicated by the titles they bear. The Engineers muster threo Field Officers, Lieut.-Colonel Papillon, Major Palmer and Major - The opening of the new club. The following appointments have Mulloy; one Subaltern, Licut. be extricated by the loss, in each house of the Indian Recreation been made by H.E. the Governor, Friend; seven staff sergeants, fore- case of a log. The rescue parties Chub will be perforged by Mr. Aacting under instructions from the men of work, draughtsmen, and of the police, firemen, St. John'e el Arculli on Saturday, 28th inst., Secretary of State for the Colonies; staff clerks; and eight rank and Ambulance Brigado and other help at 3 p.m., at Sockumpoo. During Mr. T . Dealy to be second file. The Army Hospital Corps-is- cra worked with the utmost dero the afternoon there will be athletic master in Queen's College in plussrepresented in Hong Kong by one tion, and the medical men on the sports after which the distribution of Mr. A. F. May, retired; Mr. officer, Lieutenant of Orderlies, J. spot rendered all the aid that was of the shields won by the F.R.C. in B. E. O. Bird to be a senior Brewster; one staff sergeant, three possible. Under circumstances of both divisions of the cricket league assistant master in Queen's College, sergeants, and fifteen rank and very great difficulty the rescue work and prizes will be made by Miss and Mr. G. W. Even to be chief file. Hong Kong Daily Press, seems to have been admirable.

el Arculli.

rezident engineer of the British April 22, 1881.

and when morning enme' could only

| Looking Back 25 Years.

Lt. Col. A. R. Godwin Auston, O.B.E., M.C. 5 Hears, Winrang and True

Ruin the Pianos ........ 6-Quartett "Strange Adven

ture." (From "The Yeomen of the Guard") Mrs. Beilby, Mrs. Portallion, r ******* Bullivan,

Anniss and Mr. Barton.. Finale Land of Hope and Glory": Accompanied by Band of H.M.S. Hormes.

God Save The King, Accompanists: Mr Shaw, 3ft A M Bowes-Smith and Mr W. I -True---Band of H;M;S; Hermes- by kind permisalon of Captain.

·E, J. G. Mackinnon, D.§.0; ́and officers. Grand Pianos kind-

ly lent by Messrs. Tsang Fook..... & Co., and Mr. True. Sconery--- kindly lent by HEADC.