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Cantieri Riuniti Dell'Adriatico

TRIESTE-MON FALCONE

Shipbuilders, forge masters, electrical engineers, makers of the most up to date types of seroplanes. and 'seaplanes.

Tenders and designs submitted on request.

CENERAL AGENCY FOR HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA,

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING. 1ST FLOOR.

LU

DEVIL

With

BILL BOYD

DOROTHY WILSON, WILLIAM GARGAN, ROSCO ATES An RKO-RADIO Picture COMMENCING TO-MORROW AT THE CENTRAL

Women Who Chatter And

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Naugh

IN A JAPANESE PRISON

Whaï des Japan do with her bad Work serined automatically to stop giefs? Can anyone imagine the in-ns we passed down the room; we tensely feminine, timid little Ma were the targets of many pairs of dars Batterfly doing "time" be- curious eyes, and not a few were hind the bars? Thoughts like these the smiles we received as we went crossed my mind as squatted on along the work bendlies. a big silk cushion at the home of A really beautiful little thing Mine. Mura, me of Japan's best whas appeared to be not more than known WOUL reformer, Musto years old attracted our atten- Mura had news for me: "Your per- tion. "Seventh time here: the mit has been received. Meet me to cleverest shoplifter in Japan. Her morrow and we will drive to Hori gang had about 40,000 yen worth Jawa Female Branch Prison. You of stuff stored away in a house. in are not to attempt to take any the city, and she worked the game photographs of the prison ar the with taxi-driver ernoka." iamates."

The prison is a huge block of two storeyed buildings surrounded by a high wall, about five miles from Osaka: The entrates was through

a series of immense carved wooden

Beautiful Gardens. The prison kitchen was a bright and pleasing sight. It seemed to have been scrubbed and burnished, and shouts of happy laughter greet dours that rolled back on wheels, ed a ns we approached it. It was one, set of doors being closed and staffed by about half a dozen girls locked before another was opened. under a man cook. We were shown Our party of three was ushered into the immense bathroom where half cold and gloomy waiting room of the girls lathe in parties every near the entrance. After the nears alternate day.

Everything was sary formalities we

were intro-scrubbed snowwhite. "Each party,' duced to the assistant governor of we were told, is given five minutes the prison. He was accompanied by in the hot water, but it is difficult two rather good-looking women in to get the girls away from it." The a sort of blue-grey uniform; one of prison gardens were a beautiful them spoke French well. We were sight, with a wealth of flowers and conducteil through the last tries of flowering shrubs. We encourage wooden entrance gates and found gardening amongst our charges," ourselves in huge courtyard which faced the front of the prison build-

ngs proper.

Powdered Prisoners.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1933

WASHINGTON TREATIES

What Chance of Renewal!

FEVERISH NAVAL ACTIVITY

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Geneva, Aug. 17.-League of Nations officials today, were expressing fears that a dangerous naval armaments race, led by the United States and Japan, will make more difficult the problem confronting naval uations,

which are scheduled to meet in 1035.to

consuler tha extension of the Washing ton and London treaties, oxpiring in

1036.

TRAINING THE CHILD MIND

"TATTOO"

TIDWORTH

"AT

Great Inheritance Of Duke of Gloucester as

Imagination

The mind of the normal child was discussed at the fifth bien- nial conference of the world Feder- ation of Education Associations, which opened in Dublin.

The Hon. Mrs. E. Franklin, of the Parents National Education; Enion, said that for parents to say Mother is unhappy" or "Mother is sat" when a child did something wrong seemned, to her a most dan gerous playing on the emotious of the child.

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"Speed Cop"

· DAZZLING "DISPLAY BY 2,000 PERFORMERS

TIDWORTH "In camps and garrisons, drummers are to beat the Tattoo' at night."-Sir" James Turner (1683),

'beat Tattoo" at Tidworth.

LIKE NOTHING ELSE ON EARTH!

A New Era Of Cheap Houses

DEMENTED CHICAGO FAIR DESIGNS

new

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"We had at our disposal new

The United States has already laun."once. snid that she did not know ance-in both senses of the term-ble to most of us; inscrutable; but, these new materials made new use

“A wise old lady,' she continued,

theel a building program providing for much about all, these theories pon- 32 new ships out of reconstruction cerning children. She believed in fums, while Japan is contemplating plenty of love and plenty of cod &* 500,000,00 yen huilding progmm liver oil. We know the value of covering 33 Vessels.

both.

Reports from Britain recently in- dicate the next budget will include a heavy naval building outlay, as Bei thin gets in the race to bring her naval up to full trenty strength.

It was pointed out that Japan has announce intention of seeking full naval parity, which may be a stumbling block in 1935. Further nore, she has frequently expressed dislike for airplane carriers, of which the United States is now building two more large ones.

Loa lesser extont Franco, Grunny and Russia have joined in building activity, while Italy is reporating her Hort.

French Super-cruiser.

"Children to-day are less greedy. We have become much wiser with regard to the child's buddy, but I be lieve we have still a long way go regard to that other intangible part of the child-his soul, his spirit, the part that makes him heave a big sigh when he sees a buttercup held or the sun's path

the sen.

With all our scientific planning, he behpid's a rainbow in the sky the child's heart still leaps up when But this part of the child often gets starved.

nonsense.

That was une notable feature of the

Delirius, dizzy, demented, decad, any of the great expositions, of ent and depraved they may be bus the past, had wo governmental no one has yet asserted the Cen- Rinancing. No city, state or nationa! tury of Progress buildings, at the appropriation was made to assist Chicago Fair are dull. They have in its construction. Each building. been denounced as glorified gas must earn its own way hence each tanks," "over-stuffed siloes, inflat building must be economically plan- . ed cow barns, architectural abat ned and constructed. The Duke of Gloucester appeared toirs and condemned to as a modern "speed cop" when the classifications as lurid as their materials, new methods of construe-

other regiments of the Southern Command polychrome walls. Like the

tion, new pigments, new lighting The Duke made a fleeting appear-age they symbolise, they are unpre effects, with which the public gen-

cedented; they are incomprehensi

erally was unfamiliar. We used when, during the second part of a "Dick Turpin Ancient and Modern" like the new age, they are fascinat-

of old materials. Economic episode, he drove a small motor-caring, stimulating," provocative. They across the ground in pursuit of a pair break with the past; they point conditions made it necessary for us of motor bandits. A few minutes the way to a potentially better tion, the use of standard lengths to build cheaply. Factory fabrica- latter he was in the stand, watching. | future...

and slupes of building material, and the next event.

Already crowds have relented in the fact that we did not have to daylight rehearsal Another was the their outraged denunciations of follow the Chicago Building code. return of the red-coated "Tommy these structures that violate all combined to cut pur costs to Atkins of the Barrack Room Bal. their cherished concepts of what a amazingly low. figure. Inds." In the blazing sunlight 200 building should be. They have been

"Future developments in the men of the 1st Battalion F.O.Y.L.I.heard to concede grudging approval building industry will have their parched into the tree-circled hollow to the striking ensemble. Fow have origin in the experimental lalara that is the Tidworth arena, wedring viewed the buildings by night who tories as developments in other in- the helmets and real tunics of the pre- have not been awed by the miracul-dustries base originated in the past. SIA transformation of the bizzare, The results achieved in the Century structures under the magic of light of Progress buildings should stimu Are these buildings merely the late architects, engineers and manu figments of disordered angina facturers of building materials to tions? Are they mere ballyhoo pur-new-offorts," posely fashioned in grotesque pat. * Just what, specifically, do the, fair- terns to excite controversy and

buildings forecast for the Future stimulate gate receipts Or is One may hazard a guess that they there something of permanoat portend a wider and frear use of valus in their heterodox design and colour in building operations of all construction i D. H. Barnham, classes. The amazingly low cost of their construction proves the efficacy

khaki age.

To tunes us time-mellowedas "Daisy, helmets and went through the exact- Daisy," the party removel belts and ing physical drill with arms that was customary before the Boer War, while all parts of the south-cheered from 10,000 school children-brought from the stands.

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The Victorian dictum the good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, always strikes me as pure The child's powers of

Old Penstoner. imagination must be fed not only

No one watched the display more by fairy tales and poems, but by stories of adventure, rauance. bogely than a grey haired Chelsen history and books of travel. Pensioner, who gave an approving nod as the men of his old regiment Guished the drill that for years had been his daily, portion.

The French super-cruiser Dunker que, upon which work is going for ward at Brest, is the most formidable unit in the 1933 program of any nation

It will displace 26,500 tons, have n speed of 30 knots and fire i broadside of nine, 13-inch guna. The vessel is The place of authority is to help designed to be the most efficient fight. build up character, and it is unfair ing ship allout and will embody the to cheat the child of his great in- most muslern precautions against sub-heritance of ideas breause one is marine and aerial attack.

afraid.

The French ministry of marine has also placed contracts for four cruisers of 7,300 tons each to be known as furious fighters." They will have a speed of at knots, mount nine 6-inch guns and four torpedo tubes and carry planes and catapults

The cruisers will be used in the Mediterranean to protect communi. cations between France and Northern Africa against a possible thrust by Italy...

Briton's Plans,

The British naval estimates for 1933 provide for the expenditure of 30,476,300 pounds istering, an increase of 3,003,700 pounds over last year.

The 1933 building prograni inclades four cruisers, one squadron destroyer- leader and eight smaller destroyers, three submarines and five sloops. The cruisers are the final instalment of the rpiacement program nuthorized by the London naval treaty and are due to be completed by the end of 1036.

Germany's uaval prograni comprises four armored cruisers, or pocket Preussen, Lothringen, Braunschweig battleships to replace the cruisers

and Elsass.

Of these, the Preussen and Loth- ringen have already been supplanted by the Deutschland, which has gone into active service, and the Admiral Scheer, which was launched severa weeks aga

Construction of a third "pocket

"Some are afraid to make the mistake of imposing their ideas on the child, and even those who believe in God are so afraid of speaking with authority and of making mistakes, that they leave religion out of life, and arnd child

ren anchorless into the world.

We scrutinise every hook and farget that it is the shock of the unfamiliar and unknown which hurts and scars. Pet dogs and cats die, dear ones go, and children should read of these things, even though the tender-hearted child cries a few tears."

U.S. ARMY POSTS,

AMALGAMATIONS TO BE MADE.

Washington, Aug. 16. President Roosevelt has decided to concentrate many army posts into a few major establishments

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President of "A Century of Progress" and member of its ar chitectural commission finds time to suggest an answer:

"One

an

of the machine and factory prefi brication and, along with the pre- fabricated houses" of the housing. group, points the way, to an ing business. dustrin revolution in the building

fair"

ia not of 1

new

"There are three good reasons Queen form only a part of the gay buddings are like nothing else on The red costs of the Soldiers of the why these Century of Progress colour scheme of Tidworth. Here, in earth," said Mr. Durabam the most intimate" Tattoo arena ofis the theme of the fair-"A Cen-

The main exhibit buildings of the all, khaki is almost forgotten when the

are windowless fore-runners massed bands play, when the cavalry-tury of Progress," which men charge, and when the armies of merely a review of the progress

rave of windowless now buildings, each with its the past take on new life.

that has taken place in the last OWN weather manufacturing, air century but an attempt to point conditioning plant:each with its the way in some degree to the prospecial lamps supplying just the gress to be made in the future; proper amount of artificial sun- hence, we definitely committed our shine a day. Windows if provided selves to an ultra-modern note in at all will be merely to frame a our architecture

Khaki there is, but it is lor among the dazzling uniforms of the hands men, the scarlet of the Lancers, the cherry-coloured breeches and blue cs of the Hussars, the orangs over alls of the motor despatch riders, the many-hued knights and archers of Cracy, the red coats of Waterion, and the array of buabies, bearskins, and white-plumed, scintillating helmets.

20 Searchlights: The colours made a brave show in to-days sunshine, but some of the events will be even more spectacular under the glare of twenty powerful searchlights, and with a waning moon in the sky.

view. Built to the razed in 150 "Second, there was the "factor of days, they presage the erection of congruity. The World's Columbian structures that can be easily built, exposition was a marvel of classi (and easily dismantled, and whose cal beauty. It opened the eyes of materials, like those of the fair the public to the perfection of Gre- buildings, will have a high salvage cian architecture and it established | valne. the classical procedent in America for the succeeding generation. But last 30 or 40 years," said Mr. Bura "Buildings to-day are erected to it would be incongruous to display ham.. exhibits revealing the advancement equipment, which becomes increas

"The interior mechanical of electricity in a Greek temple or ingly complex-each year, usually be- comes obsolete in one-third that time. The east of wrecking such a structure when it is obviously ob- solate is prohibitive under present methods of construction. Why not design them to fast just as long as erect buildings more cheaply and

their interior mechanical equip ment "N.A.N.A.

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Night will lead the proper atmos-Roman villa. We sought to find phere to the story of Dick Turpin. an architectural treatment in tune after we had seen him holding up a with the modern era and reflecting coach in approved romantic fashion, in a measure the purposes of the the 11th Hussars gave as a modern building. for purposes of economy and efflcaught by means of wireless, the faces and the fact that these Turpin scene, with motor bandits "Third, there was the 'problem of mobile police, and the flying squad." it was in this scene that the Duke of structures were to be used for only

took part. Gloucester, who is a Hussar captain. 150 days. This exposition, unlike

clency, it was stated to-day at the White House...

The President is making a sur- vey of the army's outlay for the eurrent fiscal year and is deter- mined to eliminate a larger num- ber of present army" barracks to reduce costs of operation and pro- mote coordination of forces.

Until he has decided which posts will be retained funds for army housing are being withheld. Be- cretary of War George H. Dern Has The Soviet Union has shown its urged that the federal public works board allocate for this purpose

Besides bringing Turpin up to date, Tidworth provides a modern version of the St. George and the Dragon legend. St. George is personified by a modern soldier in field kit on a motor- cycle, and a special "breakdown' dragon appears to help its injured friend to crawl away.

we were told. "as it gives them battleship" is under way and the necessary exercise in the open air." fourth will be started in 1934. Four We conversed with an ex-geisha; reserve destroyers will also be built a jiu-jitsu expert, who had been before 1938.

The Soviet. appointed a sort of assistant phy. Here assembled in morning ical instructor to the other girls. parade" were virtually all the in- "She can lift a Eale of rice over intention to enter the building race by furids from the $3,300,000,000 ap mates, some 300 in number. Aluster head." said the nasistant governegotiating with the Italian govern propriation to reileve unemploy, Flanders, the British Army.

nor.

US

to

straw-

ment for the construction of a 3,600 ton submarine and four cruisers of 7,000 tons each.

The submarine would be the largest in the world, dwarfing the 2,300 ton Surcouf of the French navy. Together with the cruisers it would probably be used in the Far East.

According to information from Rome, Italy is modernizing her four dreadnoughts the Duilio, Doria, Cacour and Cesare.

ment made available by the recent Congress but no action has been taken.

In Flanders.

tableaux-in place of a

This year the genuine historical set battle scene-show three glimpses of war in afternoon we saw, the knights and men This at-arms of Crecy as they appeared on that August day in 1346; one of the famous. "squares" at Waterloo, nearly five centuries later, and. la of all, while acroplanes "comed" in de clear sky overhead, British troops and wagons, in the greatest of all wars, moving up the line into the Ypres salient past the melancholy ruins of Cathedral and Cloth Hall.

AN AEROPLANE OF 1918 PENANG'S ANGLO-CHINESE

STILL FASTEST MACHINE IN AUSTRALIA

London, August 24. Every Dow and then reporta of performances achieved by vete reach an aeroplane manufacturer

ran machines which were assumed to have reached

the dumping ground "years ago. They are wel come, in that they demonstrate be yond argument the strength and toughness of the structure and the qualities of craftmanship which went to its making.

SCHOOL

Penang Principal's Departure

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Rev. W. A. Schurr, MA, B.D., the young: Principal of the Anglo- Chinese School, Penang, is shortly after a successful five years of returning to America on long leave

educational and evangelistic work in that island. He will be accom- panied by his wife and their boy.

all of them were girls or young wo- men of well under thirty yours, all

The picture of the womon at were attired in dun-brown colour their midday meal was an interest ed kimonos, and all wore the cusing one, Dainty little bowls of fish tomary wooden "geta" or clogs. The soup and snow-white rice were

Proposals to eliminate a number girls were drawn up in six lines and toyed with, while white wooden

of small scattered army posts have stood talking with their neighbours. chopsticks dashed, amid a ripple

long been under consideration by Notwithstanding that they were of subdued conversation broken

military authorities but action by

Mr. Schurr has the distinction of dehind prison walla, there were un- with many light laughs.

Congress always has run into dif-

being the first missionary teacher mistakable evidences of lipstick and The governor of the prison after.

ficulties because local intereats

in Penang to have risen to a post- powder, Nothing the prison au- wards entertained

fought for their retention. Some

tion of great responsibility both timrities can do," said Mme. Mura, coloured Japanese tex and sweet

In the School and the Church dur- catimates have been presented that "will stop the girls from powder- cakes. "We have no prisong in the

loss of efficiency on annual appro- modified verdon of the Trooping the service in Australia is one of these. the army might operate without musical drive by six gun teama, a tably the oldest aeroplane still in Fireworks cavalry drill, a galloping

A Bristol monoplane that is proing his first term in the East. For ing their faces. They finely strict sense of the word," he said,

priations cut by a fourth or more Colour ceremony, spine-chilling acro- Incidentally, it is perhaps also the of branch schools at Dato Kramat apart from being Principal of the ground rice powder, and they will "for our women. Not a per cent. of

Anglo-Chinese School and Manager move heaven and darth to. get a them return, so that our system:

If it were given a free hand. batics by motor despatch riders-all fastest. privately owned handful of uncooked rice into their must do good? My last impres

The navy laid plans this year to these help to make up the variegated machine in the continent. It was Tebak and Parit Buntar, he is also Road, Bukit ·Mertajam, Nibong possession. The lipstick is a mysions of this apparently not

close several small yards as a part pattern of the fourteenth Tidworth taken out to Ausrtalis just after stery, but it comes from some happy company were chorus of JAPAN'S DUAL DIPLOMACY necessary by smaller funds for take part.

of its economy campaign, made Tattoo. Over 2,000 officers and men voices singing Japanese patriotic 23. On a sharp conimand from one of song in the schoolroom and the

operating expenses. the senior male warders all the sound of laughter from the kitchen girls filed away in double row, building,

where,"

led and followed by a wardress. All

the time a loud gabile "of coriver-

sation went on, no attempt being.

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All these abins but will be completely restted.... Their were launched before the World War, speed will be raised from 22 to 25 or 26 knots and their gun-power incressed.

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Foreign Office Distrusted By

The Army

[JOCKEY 'CLUB SUMMONED

FOR RATES

USED TO PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE”

London"

civilian

the end of the War by Captain the Pastor of the Wesley Church at Artson Road and District Harry Butler, who used it for the next three or four years in exhibi. Superintendent of the Methodist

Episcopal Mission tion flying. He died early in 1924,

Mr. Schurr and his wife came to way thai other badies treated them, and for several years the machine

The Jockey Club. paid rates inlay in a corner of a garage. Then Penang in Dec. 1927. He was ap eleven other parishes to the amount it attracted the notice of Mr. pointed District Superintendent in of eight thousand pounds a year. Miller, a well-known pilet who | 1932, oficiating at the same time made, appareatly, to stop it. The as-lasting together new clothes for the

Tokyo-Judging by the senti-

He objected, in the first place, that lives in Adelaide, South Australia ás Pastor of the Wesley Church, sistant governor explained through prisons. They all squatted on their ment felt in army circles, the de-

service of the notice was bad be. He bought the veteran and modi- formerly called the Fitzgerald. 3mne Mura: "Long ago we had tɔ knees in the peculiar Japanese style. parture of the Foreign Department

cause it was served on the Stewards fed it to take a 100 h.p.. "Gipsy" | Memorial Church. abandon, any attempt to stop con- instanced in handling the pur- from the principle of concert with

porsonally during a race meeting, engine. His next move was to en- versation amongst the inmates (the chase problem of the

Chinese the Army in serious diplomatic Eastern Railway and the "conflict matters has apparently provoked

whereas it should have been served ter the craft for the Australian Incidentally (says the Straits word prisoners is never used in a

with France over the possession of

on the officer at the Jockey Club Aerial Derby. For two years in Echo), many people in Malaya Japanese female house of correc

its resentment, and as there is in Lion), but if it gets beyond toler- the islands in the southern China that quarter a demand for alling D. Smith and the Hon. Thomas

Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, Mr. G. office.

succession he was first home; in the 1 will be overjoyed to hear that Rev. He produced authority to say second year, however, he was dis-P. L. Feach is coming out East For work to do in small separate in the ollenation of the depart-partment against its arbitrary Club, were called upon by the Moul-issue a warrant if it could be shown catimato sable limits we give the worst offend- sea, has had & remarkable effect a protest with the Foreign De- Egerton, Stewards of the Jockey that the justices might refuse to qualified for exceeding the speed again and is expected sometime next month. It is stated that he cubicles where they have no oppor-ments.

measures, it is expected that the lon Rural Council at Newmarket that the proceedings were fing-

will be stationed in Kuala Lum-, In view of the growing delicacy matter will come to the fore in Police Court to pay £109 118, 4 rant violation of good faith,

Mr. Miller next acquired a more our of Japan's relations with other some concrete form, according to due as a district rate. countries after the secession from the "Osaka Asahi,"

The Jockey Club knew that they powerful 120 h.p. "Gipsy III" mo- the League of Nations, 'and' to the

The property in respect of which had to pay "through the nose" in tor which had been installed in a Army's apprehension of leaving Before the relations between the the money was claimed comprises all these matters, but they had a machine that had suffered a bad serious diplomatic matters to the Army and the Foreign Department a portion of Newmarket Heath right to be treated properly crash. He rebuilt the engine, Foreign Department alone, Mr. arrived at this stage, their concert which is used as galloping grounds. The Bench decided against Mr. altered it to run with the cylinder chine in Australia judging by the Yotaro Sugimura's recent work had been well maintained « since Mr. Joseph Taylor, solicitor to Taylor on his objections and order upright instead of inverted, and way they keep me back in any race showing how ignorant Japanese the outbreak of the Mauchurian the Jockey Club, said that it might ed a warrant to issue for recovery, fitted it in the monoplane. To-day enter it. It is very nice to fly, diplomatista are of their own coun- affair; but this notwithstanding, seem strange to the public that the of the amount of the rate, it is faster than ever. Mr. Miller extremely manoeuvrable, and has try, is said to have increased the the recent attitude of the Foreign Jockey Club should be sued for Mr. Taylor gave notice of appeal declares that "according to the considerable speed range.

There lasting stuff in British distrust in the Foreign Ofice, se Department towards the Army a rates, but the club were not treated and entered into recognisances to handicappers it is the fastest ma cording to the Osaka Asahi (Continued on previous col) by Moulton Rural Council in the proceed with it.

(Continued at foot of next column, "." aeroplanes!'!

tunity to converse, but this lasts

only for a day or two. It is better

to tolerate a little conversation

than to fill the hospital wards with cases of nervous hysteria.

The Work-Shed.

We entered the big general work bed. Here were fally a hundred girls at work sowing and mending lothing from the malo prisons. At he far end of the room a dozen Is were cutting up and rapidly