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BIG FIRE IN CENTRAL

DISTRICT

Hong Kong Electric Company Godown Gütted

Smart Work By The Fire Brigade

building, which is largely a wooden structure, rith alarming rapidity, and in about twenty minutes the roof collapsed, and the first floor of two storey structure was doom- cd.

inside the burning building on the Two lines of hose were taken first door, where firemen had to work almost in darkness before the arrival of acetelyns flares. Falling beams and heavy pieces, of falling masoury made the work extremely hazardous, and on more than one occasion the firemen had to beat a hasty retreat to avoid the burn ing debris.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1933.

TO CONTROL THE MAGIC ARTS

No Fortune Telling Out- side Temples!

GOVERNMENT ACTION

A draft Bill appears in the Guzette to amend the Bummary Offenes Ordinance, 1932, by the insertion of the following now sec tion:-

Every person who pretends or pro- fesses to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means or device by trology, phrenology, physiognomics, palmistry, divination, sortilege, as on otherwise to deceive and impose on any one, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment, for any

term

months; and the magistrate may not exceeding three order to be forfeited any book or other article used or capable of being used by the offender for the purposes of the offence.

deemed to prohibit the practice of Nothing in this section shall be fortune telling in Chinese temples An Old Building." registered under the Chinese,Tom- The building is one of the oldest by the temple-keepers in accord- ples Ordinance, 1998, and conducted structures in the Central District,ance with the religious principles and is between the rear of the St. govarning Miu, Tsz, Kun, To Yuen Francis Hotel and the rear of the or Om in the worship of gods or Hong Kong Electric Company's communication with spirits. showrooms which face Des Voeux Road. Exchange Building is se

No prosecution under this section parated from the block by a narrow shall be instituted without the con- alloyway, while an extension of the sent of the Secretary for Chinese damaged block fronts Ice House Affairs: Provided that such consent Street.

shall not be necessary for the ar rest of any person suspected of having committed an offence against

THE CHINA STATION H. KONG AMATEUR

COMMAND

DRAMATIC CLUB

SIR FREDERICK DREYER

TAKES OVER

The formal transfer of the Cbm- mand of the China Fleet from Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, R.N., K.C.B., C.M.G., to Admiral Sir Frederick Charlos Dreyer, K.C.B. C.B.E., took place on Saturday morning.

in II. M.S. Suffolk at 8 a.m. and Admiral Drayer hoisted his fla,

in the Kent with seventeen guns saluted Admiral Kelly's fag down

and the Kent replied with a similar salute.

**NINE TILL SIX

The Drama is coming on. Luv" is no longer the only commodity purveyed across the footlights Dramatists ara finding out what novelists found out years ago, that the "Eternal Triangle" in etorna! only by reason of own stupidity. They noon of tiltar wie difficulty of writing batter love stories than "Romeo and Juliet" and are therofore beginning to use al for themselves and independent- their brains to find out new materi

ly of tradition.

letter, play writing was found in An example of this frosher; and

Journey's End." The author took his courage in both hands and fout- ed convention by writing his play Admiral Dreger boarded the for an all male" cast. Why did Kent at 9.30 where he was received he do it: Not for fun surely. The by the guard. He was then in but as he had something real to say risk he ran was obvious to anyone, troduced to the officers of that ship.he had no time available to intro-

At ten o'clock Admiral Kelly visited the lower-deck and made later took leave of his officers, farewell address to the men, and

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Residents on the lower levels were not a little perturbed and decidedly puzzled by a brilliant flash that illumined the Central District at 6.45 p.m. on Saturday. It was de companied by a kind of staccato "hoomph that wounded more like an upheaval than an explosion. Speculation ranged from night Timbing practice by neroplanes. to the passing of a fireball or the falling of a large meteorite, A second and even more brilliant flash curred five minutes later and the Lower Levels simply gave it up as a mystery that would no doubt be solved in the Monday morning Fapers! Threo quarters of an hour

By 8.30 p.m. the fire was under

duce characters who would only Fater flames were acen shooting from control, but engines continued to

his centraltheme, which was have hampered the development of the windows of the extensive go pump water into the building for

grandeurs and miseries of war. So the downs of the Hong Kong Electrica considerable dime.

far as timm Company behind Powelly Building,

concerted the drama- and next to Lane, Crawford's, ex-

On leaving the flagship Sir the subject of his play is not the tist is very severely rationed and if tending to the rear of St. Francis

Queen's Pier where he inspected a no objection that the cast should Howard proceeded by car Hotel. The alarm was immediately

military guard of honon provided be composed of members of one sex to Eternal Triangle" it is not only given and a general call was cir

by the South Wales Borderers and alone hut it may ha culated, fire appliances being rush-

then embarked in the Green, Barg: nocessity. ed to the scene. Shortly after the

a practical hoses had been connected the roof

for the Corfu. At noon when the collapsed and billowing clouds of

Corfu left port, the Army fireded with his all male play. Have The ingenious Mr. Shoriff succeed- smoke and sparks lit by the lurid

salute. glow of fames attracted a large

the present authors, Aimee and crowd. The building, one of the

Lawrie called on Admiral Dreyer ing & lively and interesting piece Commodore E. McC. Wyndhan. Philip Stuart, succeeded in produc- oldest in the Colony, was obviously

at 10.43 a.m., followed shortly with a east which would gain the ficomed and the. efforts of the Fire The ground floor is completely

after by Major General O. C. Bor approval of Princess Ida herself? Brigade were concentrated on pre-occupied by the meter testing de

rett, O.C. China Command. venting St.

There is a ranson for this compari- Francis Hotel and partinent of the Hong Kong Elec-this section.. Lane, Crawford's becoming inrolytric Company. The latter mention-

Later Admiral Dreyer called on their

son with the earlier play beyond In the dark alleyway at the ed premises were badly damaged that fortune telling in the Colony William Peel, K.B.E., K.C.M.G..shows English manhood struggling The "Objects and Reasons" etate His Excellency the Governor, Si theatrical convention. The one play common doparture frozi side of the hotel firemen were work by water, and many valuable pieces is recognised to some extent by the and ing with the aid of acetylons of testing apparatus and meters provisions of the Chinese Temples 0.0.0., and Commodore,

returned the calls of the with the War. The other English lamps. From the iron fire escape were damaged..

Ordinance, 1928, which provides for

womanhood struggling with the outside Exchange Building and Other offices damaged by fire and the registration of places where in At 12.30 His Excellency the Peace. There is a strong element of through the windows of Powells and water include Mesars. Xavier Recordance with the religious prin-Governor returned Admiral Drey tragedy in each, yet in both there is Building, from fire escapes in Broa, Ltd., Exporters, Messrs. Lciples governing Miu, Tsz, Kun, Toer's call, in the Kent.

much to relieve it. In neither in Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road Weill and Company, Share and Yuen or Om, worship of gods, or hoses were at work hemming in the General Brokers, Messre. William communication of spirits, or fortins lows:

the help of the opposite sex requir Adraical Dreyer's staff is as fol-ed and in neither is its absence no danger zone. A shift of wind C. Jack and Company, Ltd., En- telling, is practiced.

ticed once the play, has begun drugered at one time the adjacent gineers and Contractors, and Mr. godowns of Messrs. Ruttonjer & A. Xavier, B.Sc., Architect and In the Straits Settlements any Son but the danger was fortunately Civil Engineer.

person who pretends to tell for averted. The increaging volume of The office of Messrs. David Sashes, or uses any subtle craft, water poured in from all rides had soon and Company which is situat divination, sortilege, or otherwise or devise by palmistry, its effect and the fire having praced in the front of the building, to deceive or impose on any ons is tically burnt itself out was well was undamaged.. under control by s p.m. In the lay- The call was given from the punishable by fine and imprison ing out of lines of boses and there alarm banting into advantageous positions the firemen were materially helped by a troop of Boy Scouts that

seemed to spring up in uniform from nowhere! They worked like Trojans and with a zest that sug- gested the appropriateness of the Scouts matto Be Prepared.'

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the corner

of

Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road. by some person at present unknown and four appliances with Assistant

Station Office A. I. Cash A. M.I. Fire E. in charge. Four other appliances, together with Superin. tendent H. T. Brooks, M.1. Fire E., Inspection Officer J. C. Fitz Henry, A.M.I. Fire E. arrived shortly afterwards,

The Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade, the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., was also on the scene later.

Lane, Crawford's Staff Busy, The boys" and kitchen staff at Lane, Crawford's also showed ex cellent initiative and quickly rig, ging the hose in the lounge carried it through the restaurant, to the

So far as is known, no astonishment of the diners, and

person was injured. Police are, guarding brought a strong jet of water to the premises. bear, across the narrow passage- | way, down onto the flames. Exroke out in Mesars. Weills and

It is understood the fire firs cellent service was done, as the

Co's offices.. height of the restaurant enabled a direct and drenching stream to be directed into the heart of the flames. -Hoses in the upper floors of Ex- change building were also brought

to hear.

Quick Turn Out.

The call was received at the Cen- tral Fire Station at 8.16 and eight engines wera quickly on the scene, but the flames spread through the

Property Insured.

The presmises are the property of the Lend Investment Co., Ltd. whose Secretary, Mr. Greenhill, informed our representative that the building was fully insured.

"The place was renewed only fortnight, ago," said Mr. Green- hill "and I have no idea how the fire started."

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ment and by the forfeiture of any book or other article used as an implement of fortune telling.

Fortune telling outside temples has hitherto been dealt with in the Colony by having recourse to the Vagrancy Act of 1994 providing for the punishment of rogues and vage- bonds some of the provisions of which have already been included in section 21 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932.

This Amending Ordinance deals with the practice by making it a summary offence and adding astro logy, phronology and physiognomics to the list of subtle crafts, menns or devices set out in the Straits, Settlements Ordinance.

APPOINTMENTS"

IN THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

The following appointments, &c. are notified

in the Government Gazette of March 10th.

The Honourable Mr. Charles Member of the Harbour' Advisory Committee, vice Mr. Marcus The dore Jhonson, resigned, with effect from 1st March.

ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP DR. FEWER OFFICERS WANTED Gordon Stewart Mackie, to be a

B. C. WONG

FAKE-PATIENT RUSE.

An attempt to kidnap Dr. B. C. Wong, a local medical practitioner was made by three inen and a boy in a house at 199, Nam Cheung Street on Friday night.

EFFECT ON SANDHURST

Camberley.-An appreciable reduc- tion in the number of the Gentle men Cadets in training for the Army is shown by the new entry at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Capt. A. U. Willis, D.S.O., will command the Kent and also act as Flag Captain. He will relieve Capt. Drew.

The main theme of the present play is the effect upon character of poverty. particularly post-war poverty. We have put before us a (Commodore, 2nd Class), Comdr. poor. The authors show us the in

contrast between what are called] Capt. G. P. Thompson, O.B.E. The Now Poor" and the real D. N. C. Tufnell, D.S.C Staff fluence of Officer,

a girl afflicted with (Intelligence); Afont],"New Poverty on others who Lient. Comdr. FB. Tours (Flag have to enduro the, i thing." The Lieutenant), Fay Comdr. H. M. rattire of Horne (Secretary), Pay-Liout. poverty" is shown by the fact Bridget Penarth's Mannin, F.R., Pay. Lieutenant M A. McMullen, Major C. T. Brown, that she is reduced to riding in the C.B.E... R.M.

Park instead, presumably, of hunt- ing three days a week in the shires. In certain fircles much sympathy is lavished on such people. It is presumed that once they have led An idlo, and useless life they have some sort of prescriptive right to go on leading idle and useless lives In the present play there is none of this misplaced sympathy.

MARRIAGE HINTS

FOR GIRLS

Great Adventure-Or A Foolish Hazard

HARMONY OF MIND

Marriage in its various aspects was discussed by Lady (Florence) Barrett curing an address to young women at Westminster, London, un- der the auspices of the Alliance of Honour.

The first scene is in Mrs. Pen- broke's Millinery and Dressmaking Shop in Regent Street, Mrs. Pem- brake is shown managing har shop She is a capable, and kindly woman who has to do the best she can with a tactless and wrongheaded daugh- ter, Clare, who is also her partner in business. The two heads of de partments, Millinery and Dressmak- ing, are mutually jealous, violently 50, even for heads of departments it the same concern. We are given plenty of facts about the shop and soon feel quite at home in it. great adventure, but

"Marriage," she said, "is a Shops are interesting, as Mr. Wells different ways of thinking of ad- "Kipps.”,

we all have persuaded us. many years ago in Then enters in due venture. Some of us may think of course, Bridgit, complete with it as a rather haphazard dashing mother and her chill penury" is eff to do something without any explained to. Mrs. Pembroke. The thought or preparation, but the poor girl wants a job. Her father, greatest adventures of the world nobleman by the way, is suffering are those for which very careful from agricultural depression and preparations are made, although at tax collection. dertaken it may seem to the on- the last moment before they, are ba looker that tremendous risks are

Mr. Alan Eustace Wood to be Chief Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, with effect being taken. from the 4th of March.

"

Mrs. Pembroke, being a sensible woinan, is not at all pleased with

the prospect of this sprit of no- bility being let loose in her shop,

fadyen to be an Assistant to the make caroful preparations for it, an apprentice. Another apprentice Mr. Quentin Allison Ashby Mac- the same thing. It is possible to her daughter and Bridgit becomes "In marriage it is very much in the end she is overpersuaded by

Secretary for It is in the new Junior Divison with effect from the 24th of Febru-attached to it, or it is possible to Gracie Abbot whose family suffers Chinese Affairs, thus eliminating many of the risks has been engaged earlier in the day, that the reduction is shown,

Dr. Wong was at his office at 408, Nathan Road when a Chinese boy

For some years, now the average entered and asked him to 100 D relative of his who was seriously on occasions it has exceeded 200, but entry each term has been 180, and ill. Dr. Wang accordingly went to the total, of new entries for this the house, and when he bent down torn is 138. This reduction is even to examine the patient, he was

Bry....

Commander

disregard all preparations so that from real poverty.

very foolish - From this point onward we see the Joseph Bernard it merely becomes a to set as Harbour Master and Newill, D.8.0., R.N., (Retired), hazard.

effect of putting incongruous Director of Air Services and Mr choice of your friends, your work, ed and worked hard for her living elements together. Every person in "I want to remind you that the the shop, except Bridgit, has work Thomas William Harold Hosegood your amusement, and even your and is used to it. Bridgit has been ware also present. The "patient "Senior Division which passed out during the absence on leave of the riage, for they all throw you into in many ways; a bad girl but in suddenly seized by two men who greater when it is noted that the to act as Deputy Harbour Master trading have a bearing upon matcorrupted by idlenesa She is not, i also got up, and, together they just "before". Christmas to receive Hon: Commander George Francis different company. The cultivation her new surroundings she can hard-

their commissions totalled 200..

The strength of the battalion will now be about: 490, compared with 550 last term."

rebbed Dr. Wong of 875 in money and alan his gold watch. They produced pistols and pushed Dr. Wong to his ear in the street below, and ordered him to drive to It has been announced that the Shatin.

number of cadetships to be compet ed for at the Army Entrance Ex-

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of real friendships with people ly fail to do harm. The manner with whom you have interests in which this situation is developed common is an excellent preparation will be seen by those that go to for marriage.

the play

Hole, R.N. (Retired), with effect from 11th March,

Mr. Frank Arthur Hopkins to act as Superintendent of Prisona during the absence on leave of Mr. John William Franks, with effect that harmony of mind, sad spirit goods and with their great tradi "I should like to emphasise, too, The authors have delivered the Dr. Wong, however, showed great aminations in June are to be only from the 11th March. presence of mind, switching off the 130, but in July the present Senior

with your mate is the first esential Lions behind them, the A.D.C, can engine of his car, and pretending Division at Sandhurst, which num- the absence on leave of Mr. Carlos What does the average person look are not at all handicapped by hav It is also notified that during in an enduring marriage And be trusted to deliver theirs. They that it could not inove. He asked bors approximately 180

tely 180. ure IWA Harrier Brotge Boxes in making the

believe thating an all female" cast, as that Which for down hid to pass out, so tant a further re for Bolivia in Hong Kong Nowould a padl crank the car. He did so but induction of about fifty: cadets may Antonio Hermenegildo Basto will tinfy great number of our no more imagine men in this play would agree that marriage should misguided cleverness. One could in Themen then allowed I be looked for. No official reason be in charge of the Bolivian Con rongest desires, that it should pro then women in Journey's End " Dr. Wong to crank the car himself, has been given for this bulates and as he did made a large wonder The new Junior Division entering..

vide us with an intimate friend who As Bridgit says in the play, The ing crowd collected. Seizing this on Friday will, for the first time

Information, has b

been received understands us perfectly, as well namen who come to á dressmaker's, opportunity, Dr. Wong dropped the since 1920, not have a single native from the Becretary of State for the with a companion interested in the are no use to anyone." crank and ran away. Later he Indian cadet among its numbers Colonie ht Einar, Henrik things in which we are interested. Nine, Till Six is a good play. made a report to the Shamshiupo. This is due to the opening of the Swedish Consul-General for Hong give us children in a home of our timate, and human problems.

The Lindquist has been appointed and finally that marriage should It deals with wide interesta-in- Police Station, but no arrest has yet Indian Royal Military,

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