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GIRL GUIDES MOVEMENT

SOUTHORN'S INTERESTING BROADCAST

ADDRESS LAST, NIGHT.

GUIDING EXPLAINED: APPEAL FOR HELPERS

AND RECRUITS.

The following is the text of an My kind hostess in Japan, the actress oc "Girl Guides, broad-chaming girls who shampooed, my cast fast night by, Mrs. W. T. hair on board an Empress boat, the Southor:

Mrs. Southern said: In the old days it was usund for a speaker suffering from acute norvousness to preface his remarks by saying apologetically:-

Guides,"

beautiful

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1932.

SITUATION IN SWATOW.

"CHINESE APOLOGY GIVEN AND ACCEPTED.

CHINESE SOLDIERS ARRIVE AND JAPANESE DESTROYER. LEAVES.

(From, Our Own Correspondent.)

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CONDITIONS IN HAINAN.

CATTLE DESTINED FOR HONG KONG SEIZED BY BANDITS,

REDS ACTIVE: JAPANESE BOYCOTT

CONTINUES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

places.

KACH, January M. Hoihow for shipment to Hong pretty Norwegian manicurist in

BWATOW, Feb. 1.0 p.m.

Kaabek market is to have moving į Kong. Montreal, the wife of the Governor.

Same "two wanks ago, cow mer. General of Canada, my delightful

The immediate danger of hospictures. The thestre ́is made from hostess in Quebec, the pinnesottilities between the Japanese war oral buildings formerly occupied chants were going out from Dos-lou Thirteenth Provincial with about one hundred and thirty neighbour in the Swiss Hotel-all ships and the Chinese military bus by the

Middle School as dormitories. As cows. They had ten Doa-iou militia' were in and of the Guide More. now, boon averted. This is the out Ladies and Gentlemen-unaement and brought their quota of come of the conference of the the school has new buildings tha da guards but wore ahead of their customed as I am to public speak-friendliness to add pleasure tForeign Consula (on Sunday after old ones were purchased by a firm escort, Just out of Dom-loa robbers ing-thereby hoping to excuse all one's wanderings, I can remember noon) who have succeeded in bring. made up of men connected with wooped down upon the party, and saversal of the large shops in the drore of all the cows, worth ber ing both sides to rosson. deficiencies. That ancient expres† numbers of chance, meetings with

The Japanese Consul was very market, for something over $2,000 tween $8,000 and $9,000. A 'bus' sion appears to have died out, but Guides-the Guide response,

the

anxious that no, bloodshed" should silver. These were only one-storey coming along just at the time was 1 feel I any justified in saying, keen interest You come from cour, and taking into considera native buildings and have been held up lee and one man killed: 'Ladion and Gentlemen-nous China 3. Oh, do tell us about it. tion the peace and welfare of the remodelled and the roof made much The militia were too few to copo tomed as I am to wireless speak Are there Chinese Guides We'd town and inhabitants--Chinese and higher, so high, in fact, and with with the robbers. A fort is now foreigners he eventually waived ing for this is my first appentanon love to meet them" The roots of three demands. The player accept such siight supports that many being built half-way between Don in this alarming situation-I bave Guiding strike deep into the hearts ad agreed in return that an offend people fear that the whole may sud lou and Ur-dick, so that militin "or": a horrid vision of everyone switch of nation-deeper than many ing newspaper should apologise.denly collapse from the weight of soldiers supposedly can control all.

Last midnight, Foxlease-the

night, thei ing off their main and saying:- | rentise

Japanese Consul was instructed by the tile-roof Pictures were shown the ten-mile stretch between the two Oh we don't want to hear about home and grounds in Bump the Foreign Office at Tokyo, that for several nights, the apparatus shire, given to the Guide Move such settlement was satisfactory. having been brought down from

"Bad" Activities. I've done it myself when the most by an American Indy, is Accordingly, this afternoon at 3.30 Huilaw. If the market electric light the Mayor called at the Consulate plant materializes, the theatre will subject does not appeal to me, the rendezvous of Guides from with the agreed letter of apology, use those lights. If not, they will

Communists continus active. In & raid on Diau-lam market, some But I do beg you to listen to my all over the world for training which was exchanged for a letter of put in their own plaat.

12 miles south-east of Kachek, one romarks, however uninterested you'į and recreation, And now in Swit acknowledgment and acceptance by The wireless station "is now

family seemed to be the objective. may He in Girt Guides and Guidzerland the gift of a Chalet has the Japanese Consul So that the operating, both as a sending and & A son of this family had been kid- }; incident can be new considered receiving station for the military napped some weeks before and is added to the chances for interna-closed.

authorities. It is probably avail-reported dead. This time an older The naval authorities even wentable also for urgent private mes tional meetings and friendliness.

woman of the family was shot sages when necessary. One of the most striking in one step further to meet the Chi-

through the cheek and the wife of nese request, and to show the public

The district magistrate recently the young men, mentioned above was that they had no hostile intentions,

moved his headquarters from kidnapped. ere destroyer has steamed out of Kachels back to the original district in Kuchek market and are consider

Her own family live the port. However, the concensus of Chinese opinion is that the uity of Ehong-dong, a small walled ed rather well-to-do. They were Japanses may soon find some other town some ten of twelve miles to ordered to pay $500 for her runson excuse to inforce her naval fores the east of Kacher. There is hope but the price finally agreed upon that this move will restore some was $200. This sum was raised and toro again !

measure of confidence to the people paid over, but latest reports state- in that region, which has been and that the girl has not been released. still in very unsettled. The quar- Two young men recently escaped trate are now used by the military of Kachrk. They know that captors. ters formerly occupied by the magis from a bandit gang to the west

as division headquarters for rehad plenty of guns but very little Kialat (mostly a residential art building was a temple, and then asing parties were out the guards pairing guns. Originally this ammunition, and that when ruid

formed that the Chinese are more School, used by Communists in the unarmed From their location they to town. I was authoritatively in the Agricultural and Industrial left with them were thus virtually afraid of looting than anything pre-1987 days of peaceful penetra- could on clear daya distinguish the tulee. I have also gathered that pesterday the office of the General tion by propaganda, and latterly buildings of Taich-bial market and was shifted from his headquarters headquarters for various oivil farther away the buildings of (which faces the harbour to a pines and military authoritics The old near the railway station, and temple bell still hangs from the that it is well posted with soldiers branches of a big tree in front of the quarters used as the women's and machine guns,

priso

but no one ever hears, it ringing now,

One of

ing: because the subject, together with the Scout movement, is really a very important one in the world bo-chy. And although the Gir Guides are # million strong there stances of the world-wide power of are still "quite a number of people | Guiding came to my notice in who are vague about their aimas Ceylon many years ngo.

What do they do? What is the the Guide Captains went over to use of them? Isn't the uniform the South India for a holiday. While main thing? These are questions there-it was Christmas time-she which were put to me only the went to a party given at a Leper other day by a very prominent Home. The Quille Captain wore member of a foreign community

and their achievements,

here,

الثاني

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There

the Guide trefoil badge and to her amazement a young Indian girl I can quite understand that these afflicted with leprosy came up, to questions and doubts arise is the her and said: ses you are a minds of those who have pot come Guide, I was & Guide once. in direct contact with the move were tears in her eyes and my ment. There was strong opposition friend was deeply moved top. The to it in England when it was start-girl had been to school where. ed in responat the desire of Uuiding was a very flourishing part many girls to have an organization of the training. Then she had de of their corresponding in some veloperi loprosy and everything was ways to the Scout Movement. changed. The Guide Captain kept There is no doubt that most human in touch with the girl; they corre- beings distrust anything new

or sponded and my friend sent her unknown. It is the attitude of the hooks. Guiding once again brought mother who said Go and seo fresh, interesse into the girl's life what Tommy's doing and tell him and I believe eventually she was cured and able to go out into the nut to."

world again.

Opposition at First.

That was the spirit encountered

How

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Chinese on the Bun.

striken Chinees masses continued Exodus among t the panic- the whole of this afternoon. Valu ables have been removed from

Anti-Red Campaign Abandoned. All the soldiers recently des patched to the interior for anti-Rod work have been recallad. Shortly after the tiffin hour some three hun dred more moved in from Ampous the first station on the railway line, and those poorly-alad and ill-fod defenders of the country are now billeted in the premises of tho Commercial School.

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Kachak market so they had their bearings for general directions. One night when their guards were asleep after an unusually heavy meal the young men managed to change into clothing of members of the gang and escape, making their way to Tsioh-biah and from there taking a boat to Kaihek and. unhurt, thanks to their clever plan- to, their own homes going on

ning.

Japanese Boycott.-

Rics Harvest.

Rice-planting is finished and now The Social Service side of Guid

that needed rain has come the crop ing is perhaps too little known by

is flourishing. At this season only by Sir Robert Baden Powell, as he the general public. Apart from the

white rice is planted for the crop. ordinary hale and Fearty Guide

and enough rod rice for seed for was in those days, when he set cut Companies, there is the Extension

the next harvest, as red rice, seed. to evolve the sister movement to Branch, which includes Ranger and

does noo germinate well if kept too The Japanese hoycott committes the Boy Scouts. There were cries Guide Companies and Brownic

long before planting About Ave | displayed considerable activity not of:- Gin in uniform!

Packs in hospitals and sanatoria, A tour around Kialet and to the years ago Hainanese from the Leng-long ago. One of the largest shops. awful-turping girls into hoy in homes and schools for cripples, west of it has convinced me that tui district to the south of Eachek in the market is known as Heng tomboys probably.

for the blind, the deaf and for the

most of the positions taken up by returned to their homes from Zui Heng, in which much Singo- mentally defective. The great game local military have been carefully Annam with a variety of rice pore Chinese capital is invested. It of Guiding modified to suit their chou, and to resist the Com- hitherto not planted in Hainan, is able to buy in larger quantities limitations is thrown open to the munists should they invade Swatow The type flourished in Lang tai and and hence sell for less than other children and girls who feel them from the Cano-med district. | proved very good. Men from Dos-frms Consequently jealousy was selves cut off from their active Trenches, of a sort, have been dug Joe, a large village near Kachek, added to patriotism in the furora normal sipters and they are taught near the old disused fort, whilst in a fertile rice plain, were in busi-that arose when a clerk in the store handicrafts, if in poor circum in the Municipality machine gunsness in Leng-tui and introduced the sold a sixty-cent Japanese-made have boon mounted and sandbag- new variety of rice to their village washbasin to sustomer. The stanere, which enable them to earn money. In the Midland counties barriera crocted Armed pelicanon farmers, and it is proving equally students and the boycott committee of England, Guider with fathers are on point duty in the Kinlat successful in this region. It is not staged a demonstration, the pro- and brothers out-of-work have ear-area, but no incidenta haye occur often the actual steps of introduc-prietor of the store found it very of girls and women with no distinged substantin sums tabalp their red so far. All necessary precaution of new varieties of plants can convenient to take a vacation that tion of race, creed or class, band families over hard times.

tions are being taken

But boys will be Scouts and girls will be Guides and the movement progressed so well that is 1810 it received a Charter from Govern meat and in 1993 the King granted it a Boyal Charter.

Yes, but what is the object of it, I can hear my impatient audience put into words the main objects of Haying. I feel that it is easy to

the Guide Movement. It is a league

ed together for the development Camps for deaf and blind Guides of character and intelligence, skill have been held with the greatest and technical knowledge, physical success, Letters in Braile aro sent health and development, and serta blind girls living As home." vice for others. But that is not all. Here we have the letter of the 'movement but there is the spirit of

Lone Guides.

A Panic..

bo so clearly traced

day and for some time after, the Conditions are still none too store was ordered to apologize and good around the country. Mer pay small fine, and a culprit, A tremendous panic was created chants say the twelfth month trade presumably the clerk who did the at 9. o'clock this afternoon when is the poorest for years, the smaller selling, was paraded through the the pneumatio tire of a ricksha shops taking in only $10 to $20 on streets. Posters were put out for- burst. The sound like the report market daya. Dollars are chang-bidding, loyal citizens to trade, with of a rifle shot bad the effect of ing for 210 coppers, not a bad rate this firm. The wooden doors have it which counts for more.

There are very large number of enusing the pedestrians to flee in for the time of year. As is often scarcely been open since, and the Guiding is an inspiration. All of what are known as Lone Guides all all directions, believing that the the case at the time whco debts iron grating is kept nearly closed, us, young or old, need in this the world over. There are girls, fatal. hour was at hand? Shops must be paid, robberies are fre- so that is can be anapped shut in

vision splendid by who, by renson of their isolated immediately barricaded and a big quent, Kashek hold B world some

"cow case of a sudden raid. It will be which to keep our hearts beating hoines in the Colonies an in foreign police force turned out from the market. every four days The some time at least before much high and our eyes lifted up to the countries or owing to some physical Safety Bureau and, discovering cows (mesaing both water buffalo business can be done. And more hills. The everyday routine of life disability, are unable to join a nothing untoward, ordered the and ordinary cattle) are purchased ill-luck has befallen this same shop even when we are young is apt to Guide Company. They are affiliat shops to re-open. But no, fear had by cow merchants and hitched in because the junk which was cap. make us get into a groove and toed to the great sisterhood of Guildboen instilled in the people and long strings, with ropes from the be limited in our outlook, our ing and keep in touch with it by they remained apprehensive for nose over the head and across the friendship and our interests. But means of correspondence,

some hours. The lost, noise startles back of one animal to the nose of Guiding opens a door to friendship

Guiding in fact can reach a girl 'the whole population.

the one behind, to be driven to the with all the world, One cannot at all points of her life and wher.

upper cow markets (Doa-lou, Khou help feeling that much of the interever she may be. She can begin na

lai, Bang-kau) and eventually to national trouble arises from want a Brownie at the age of 7, learning of contact. Guiding strives to at that early age to lend a band. unite girlhood all over the world to be tidy in her person, to be in friendship and understanding friendly to others, to take an in- Some shops are still closed, to-day

ALL QUIET.

Last night, paased pancsfully.

February 2

MASTER MARINER'S ESTATE IN HONG KONG.

At the International Guide Con- terest in outdoor life, er, learn to and taking no chances. Vernacular LOCAL PROBATES. ference held in Hungary in 1928, set a table, to tie up & parcel and papers publish the news that the representatives of twenty eight to knit aug new, to sing and to Sino-Japanese differences locally foreign countries and British Over- draw and paint. The koitting and have been amicably settled. As the sens Dominions met in the common sowing of the Brownies shown at day drags on it is expected that no bond Lord and Lady Baden the Rully recently held under the undue excitement will prevail. Powell who are the Chief Scout kind auspices of Lady Peel, at Chinese exodus continues and and the Chief Guide of the World, Government House would have more people are taking passage to rule a kingdom larger than any natonished many of those proptics Hong Kong, which is not an king or queen. At the Danish Jam who say What is the use of Perialistic colony" in times of

stress and emergency. boros, the flags of thirty nations Guiden and Browning?" were dipped to Lord Baden Powell an honour unique throughout the world's history.

Im

tured by the Customs men at Bak-is (Bak-ngau) harbour at the mouth of the Kachak, river this week, while,, smuggling in kerosene and plece goods, had most of the cargo destined for Heng Zui Heng..

Yorkshire, one of the execitors. Power is reserved for making a similar grant to the Westminster Bank the other executor.

The late Mr. Smith was an em ployee of the Hong Kong, Canton Mr. Samuel Bell Smith, retired and Macao Steamboat Company and one of the most popular master mariner, who died fit Enst! Was··

"Masters" in their service. All the streets ware deserted leaf Lutton, near Malton, Yorkshire, on

Local estatą: amounting to Whon a Brownie puck comes to night by 9 o'clock with the cinema January 22, 1931, left local estate $138,800 (net porsonalty at Hont ton with me 1 and the children houses doing no business at all,” alert, polite and able to play any The foreign communities remain amounting to 890,000. Bis Home 16,312) was left by Mr. Walter number of games, interested in the quite cool amid the excitement estate is valued at £3,830, Re Bosa, formerly of Ferres, Morny shire, Inte of Saigon, who died in If you travel twice round the dowers and full of joie de vivre. Bat British subjects wonder why pe world is I have done, you will find The discipline that is the founda-warship can be spared from sopling of certified copy of pru Saigon on April 23, 1931. He-schl. that wherever you meet a Guide tion of the Movement has its effect the big number now in Hong Kongbate of the will has been granted ing of testament-testamentar has you meet a friend. All the pre-a onds. That one good deed 2 We have this year paid $4 & Load to Mr. & G. N. Tinson, of Mours, ben granted to Mr YM. Gray wing 1 burn, Chist Manager of the Hong liminaries of nequaintanceship, day develops unconsciously into a

Pannual registration and are ensan, Stokes and Master at Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor which sometimes take so much time spirit of helpfulness and considera 100 per cent, inorense) for our

titled to adequate protection if editorney for deceased's brother, Me.poration, the London office of before harriers are broken down,

the British Government!

FHSmith, of Wold Newton, which are appointed oxe shkore. are bridged by the Guide Haks.

Barriers Broken Down

tion for other On the other hand (Continueż on" "Page'11)

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