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No.22706. 號陸佰柒仟弍萬弍第

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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1931.

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To-day.

(May 3.)

Festival of 33rd of Omer; Chinese Customs Holiday.

English Association Meeting: Speaker, Mr. A. H. Fenwick, B.Sc.. A. M.1.C.E., on "F.W.H. Myers," Cathodeal Hall, 5,15 p.m. -

Rotary Tiffin: Speaker, Lt.-Cdr." Dymott, R.N., on "Mateorology,"

Hong Kong Benevolent Society. Jumble Sale, City Hall, 2 p.m..

Queen's Theatre: "New Moon." World Theatre: "24 Heroce " Part 2 (Chinese film).

PICTURE OF OLD

INDIA.

WHERE OXFORD'S EX-WICKET-KEEPER

RULES.

ARBITER IN MARITAL AND OTHER

DISPUTES.

more furooful.

I am on the desert fringes of the courts, presumably to make the Baluchistan writes Robert Bernaya,, "entreaties for his gracious presence The. Neies-Chronicle Special Cor- respondent in India. Railways and motor-roads and Gandhi caps are left scores of miles behind. There is nothing but sand and Playboy of camels and dark-bearded, white-form of a dinner, and when wo

Central Theatre: "Ladies Love Biutes,"

King's Theatre: Paris."

"The Shan-

Majestic Theatre: nuns of Broadway,"

Dances: Tea Danee, H.K, Hotel; Dinner Dances, at Hong Kong and Repulse Bay Hotels, and Hotel Cecil.

Wednesday.

(May 4.)

New Moon." "24 Heroes **

Beginning of Summer (Li-hein): Assension of King George V. (1910),. Cham- Football:-Division 1: pinas (South China). The Rest, Clubs ground, 5.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre World Theatre: (Chinese film).

Central Theatre: Ladies Love Brutes."

King's Theatre Paris.".

Playboy of

raro

turbanned hillmon, and at intervals an antidy mud-walled village and, in the distance, a lobg, low line of barren hills which mark the end of British India.

It is a

scene in which oven Abraham would not find himself out of place. Woman is still re- garded as a chattel. Her hand is not given in, marriage; it is bought and sold,

most sorious

· Elopement is a grime. I saw in the Ineal gaal a boy doing a long term of imprison. ment for no other crime than that had married a girl without her parents' consent.

Nor is there any primrose path to divorce. The co-respondent will probably be killed outright. Even if he escapes murder, he will be awarded by the courts a years in Majestic Theatre: The Shan-prisonment, a fine of 500 rupees and nons of Broadway."

hanishment for life. The guilty Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shing wife will be cast into a no man's land-turned out of her husband's family, and denied admission to that of her lover.

Theatre, 8, nt,

Daners: Ten Dance; H.K. Hot Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels,

Europena Mail.-Inward: Europe ri Siberia (Kidderpore)

Thursday.

(May 7.).

New Wing of European Y.M.C.A

to be opened by H.E. the Governor, $.30 p.m.

World Theatre: "The Mysterious

Rider."

The next most serious offences against property haw relation to

camela and water.

The law may be primitive in these wild regions, but it is rigorously enforced. For this is the old In- din, where the prestige of the white man is unchallenged.

I was fortunate enough to be present, at this particnlar wedding fcast.

The wedding breakfast took tho

arrived we were ushered in to the strains of the National Anthem. I was less touched at this signal ex- pression of respect when I subse quently discovered that it was the only European tune the local band- knew.

At the dinner table there was neither bride nor bridegroom nor even host. Tiky were a strict Hindus and as such not merely cannot eat mont but cannot even For all that watch others do it. the courses are a many and as prolonged as a Guildhall banquet.

Those marriage eelebrations somc-. times go on for four days and, in consequence, drive the hosts into appalling debt.

I saw more of the old India the next afternoon when I sat by the side of the young Englishman in court. To hear the petitions of the villagers was to ace the life of the villagers in pictures. One had lost hie wife and was suing for the customary 500 rupees from her seducer; another had had his bul- lock stolen and wanted to know what the Government was doing about it; a crafty looking, book- nosed hillman was trying to pre. sent a petition without the custom- ary two anna stamp; he had tried the day before the same dodge, but he hoped that the Englishman would forget.

looking, like Indian versions of the Next came two kindly old men Chorylle brothers. The English- man whispers to me that up to ¿wo Over these half-savage, wholly days ago they had sworn to illiterate tribes there rules in un- one another. They have now made disputed majesty a young English-up their quarrel and are asking. man whom I last say keeping for the sureties that they had been wicket for Oxford in a recent forced to give to keep the peace. "Varsity match.

Watching him doing his jol, I Central Theatre: "Ladies Love begin to realise what the India of Kipling, for which elderly empire- Brutes.".

buildiers so pathetically sigh, must have been like. He is treated as agad. Everywhere his coming is Mei Lan Foug at Ko Shing greeted with reverential salaame;

he may pass the police lines dozen times in a morning, but the guard is turned out every time; shoes are taken off in his presence. Even when he was invited to a wedding, the father of the bride arrived with the chief picador of

King's Theatre: The Playboy of Paris."

Theatre, 8 p.ш.

Jumble Sale, Union Cirurch, Ken- nedy Bond.

Dances: Ten Dance nt Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

So it goes on through the long Indian afternoon. Tho English- man resolves the tangles, admoni- shing come, punishing others. indifferently ministering justice" to all, as easily as doubtlessly he solved the problems of the prelets room at bis Public School only a

few years ago.

Presumably even this remnant of the old India is doomed to paes away. But while it remains I defy any Round Table Conference in the better way of world to find a

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