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ECHOES OF 1859

16.-A Gruesome Scene At the Jall

H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

(Orders by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.BE, Commandant,

H.K.V.D.C.).

1.-Parade.

(a) The Battery:-

1-There will be a parade. for the Signal Section at 5.30 p.m. at Headquarters on Tuesday, October 10.

2-There will be a parade at 5.30- p.m. sharp on Thursday, October 12, at Headquarters. (b.)-Engineer Co.:-

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There will be no Range practice on Monday, Octo- ber 9.

Thursday, October 12-DL, Tran- ing at Instruction Shed, Welling- ton Barracks, at 5.30 p.m.

Members are notified that the first week-end Training at Lyees mun, will be held from November 17 to 19, and are requested to keep these days free. (c)-Corps. Signals:-

(March 9th, 1839),

true that the services of a profes- The two miserable convicts Jones sional hangman cannot be procur- and Gibbons suffered the extreme ed in this colony, but there must penalty of the law upon the seaf- be certain directious laid down to fold yesterday morning. Jones provide for such emergencies, aud naves. attempted to exculpate him if there be, we have no hesitation self but persisted to the last in ia recording our opinion that the endeavouring to inculpate inno- | party whose office it is to see that sent parties against whom he har-f those directions pro carried out, is boured feelings of animosity. Gib-' most reprehensibly lack in his du bons declared to the last his inno-ties, and should be called to in cence, nor

does there appear to start and severe account. have, been any additional evidence Strangulation by hanging has obtained against him, since his hitherto formed the rule, and not trial, either from his own lips or the exception in this Colony. Over from those of his fellow prisoners and over again have the press de- One of those scenes ao discordant i acanced' in no measured language to the feelings of humanity and of the revolting scenes which have Parade at Corps Headquarters at which this colony has been so re- occurred on the Hong Kong scaf5.30 p.m. on Thursday, October 12. peatedly the arena, occurred at folds, but never has it been our There will be no parade on Tues- this execution-we mean the in- lot to hear the recital of such an- day, October 10, 1933. efficiency of the hangman,

other scene as occurred yesterday | (d)—Armoured Car Section:-- In hanging a man the object to morning. The convict Jones Was There will be no parade on Mart- be attained is the dislocation of released from his pains pretty day, October 9, as this day being a the neck when death of course is speedily, but 'Gibbons continued to Holiday. 'instantaneous. It repeatedly hap- writhe and breath hard for a quar-, pens that failing in this object, | ter of an hour to some accounta death Ocelly's by strangulation. and half an hour according to According to civilized notions, the others. infliction of such a "death is con- sidered barbarous inbumanity, and there can be no doubt that un- less executions by hanging could be conducted with certainty in a proper manner, that our legisla ture should substitute some other mode of capital punishment. It is

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Machine Gun Classification at Stonecutters on Sunday, October 29. (e.)-Motor Machine Gun Section: We are relating what we have There will be no parade at Head- heard on undoubted authority. We quarters on Monday. "October" 9. speak in the name of humanity and 1933. civilization, and we conscientious- ly believe that until an example be made, of the responsible parties, such scenes will be of continued oc- | Drili. · currence,

IN CHINESE TEMPLES

Where Picnic Parties Are Welcomed

By A SCOTSWOMAN IN CHINA

Readers of Ann Bridge's novel, "Peking Picnic," will remember that the plot is centred in a group of people who go for a week-end picnic to a temple in the hills near Peking.

that it was an impromptu effort, referring in no complimentary terms to the "great fat pig" which they were carrying, and which got heavier every moment.

All ranks parade at Headquarters on Wednesday, October 11, at 5.30 p.m., for Section and Platoon

(f.)--Machine Gun Company;

Parade in Mufti at Headquarters on Friday, October 6, at 5.30 p.m.

Training by Gun Team, Blemen- tary Gun Drill.

(g.)-Scottish Company:-

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Thursday, October 12.--No. Platoon parade at Kowloon Dock under Lieut. T. P. Saunderson.

No. 7 Platoon "at Headquarters under Lieut. A. W. Brown, Machine

Gun Training

(h)-Portuguese Company:

There will be no parade Tuesday, October 10.

Musketry parade on Thursday, October 17.

Details will be issued. (1)A.ALA. C9.5-

There will be no parade on Mon; day, October 9.

(L)-The Officers Commanding the undermentioned Units will issue their Orders to their Com mands separately:

Machine Gun Troop. Anzac Company.

2-Appointment.

2

Armoured Car Section-Lance-

If one happens to pienis on a Chinese temples are favourite pilgrim day one is amazed to see picnicking places for us Western- the number of worshippers which ers, and the readiness with which throngs these decayed precincts of the temple authorities welcome such | Buddhism" In one temple where visitations is always a marvel to there is a Goddess of Birth the the newcomer. One reason for this pilgrim days bring crowds of is probably to be found in the cus women of all ages, who come for tom, which takes us back to Me-miles toiling ncross the plains and diaeval Europe, of the temples up the hillside on their tiny bound Corporal W. Harris-Walker's ap- having a guest room, where the feet to pray for sons and grand-pointment ceases from October 6, native gentry were housed for holi-, sons. It is a well to avoid auch 1933. duys, and whose priests found the days, for even on ordinary acer- travellers' gifts of "tea-money" asions one experiences the truth of good source of income.

the saying that in the East one has the privacy of a goldfish in a bowl, One inevitably collects a crowd, and it is a matter of congratulation if that crowd Is confined to half a

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dozen of the tatferdemalion women and children who are always ran sacking the hills for fiel.

Temples are usually situated in sheltered, hilly spots, where the freshness of the air, the soft shade of the trees the music of the little roof bells tinkling in the wind, and

CURIOUS PHENOMENON the, fine view over mountain and plain, are soothing and restful after the harsh, dry beat or cold your food here to eat?"

"Does some one pay you to carry An old of the North China plains.

Chinese man once asked us. He had The more elaborate picnics are hovered round us for long before of the week-end or "stay-the-night" venturing to make friends. His in- variety. For these, since temple credulity and astonishment were rooms contain only a wooden table, great when we tried to explain that benches, and perhaps n brick this was our way of amusement. As "kang" or platform for a bed, a he took himself off we heard his "bop is sent ahead with camp voice in the distance expatiating on beds, bedding, deck chairs, and the phenomenon to the chair-bearers supply of tinned foods, dishes, and on the steps "No money! Not bie cutlery. It is always easy to buy copper, cash. It's a game !”. chickens, eggs and fruit, and the moet civilised meals can be served on such expeditions,

IN THE SOCIAL NEWS

Nowadays many Peking residenta rent rooms in these Buddhist sanctuaries for long or short periods. The social column of the Feking foreign press faithfully. chronicles the doings of these temple-dwellers, Mre, So-and-so is entertaining at her temple_dur- ing the week-end," or "Mr. and Mrs. Jones have gone to spend the summer at their temple in the West ern Hilla."

JAPANESE FARM TRAGEDY

Hot-Tempered Man Kills

His Mother

3.-Leave.

No. 1660 Pte. Chong Shu Lam Medical Section, granted four days' leave, with effect from October 7th to 10th, 1933.

No. 2085 Pte. A. K. Mackenzie, No. 7 Platcon, granted 12 days'

leave, with effect from October 7th

to 18th, 1933.

No. 1795 Pte. R. A. J. Simpson, No. 2 Platoon, Machine Gun Com-. pany, granted three weeks' leave, with effect from September 29th to October 19th, 1933

Struck Off the Strength. Permitted to resign:-,

No. 1413 Pte. A. M. Calman, Reserve Company, as from Octom ber, 6, 1933.

No. 592 Pte. J. H. 8. Duncan, Reserve Company, as from Octa- ber 6, 1933.1

5-Fined by Efficiency Brd No. 1576 Pte. C. A. Figu redo, No. 9. Platoon.

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T. H. 8. GALLETLY, Lieut.

Adjutant, HKV.D.CA. After Orders Scottish Company:-Stonecutters Range for-Sunday, October B, has been cancelled.

BROADCASTING IN HONG KONG

Report For September

Actual hours of transmission in Hong Kong during September devoted to European programmes, totalled 276.75 of which 162,50 were: and 114.25 to Chinese programmes,

Tokyo:-In a fit of anger, Shui- chi Abe (21), a farmers son of Ogoee, Saitama Prefecture, cut his The famous Wo Fo Sau (Temple sword and then drove the weapon 48-year-old mother on the arm with of the Sleeping Buddha) in these into her heart, causing her instant hilla near Peking is now the out death. His ferocity still unassuag. as follows: of-town headquarters of the Y.Med, he wounded his father who at O.A. Guests are taken there, and

tempted to seize him, the terrible

a restaurant in charge of a Chinese scene being lighted by the blaze of Morning Transmissiona cook provides good Western meals

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the paper screen to which he had set Bre. After a hard fight the un filial son was overpowered by. neighbours while the fire was also The informal picnio is enjoyed in put out before extending seriously. many a temple in North China. Fierce arguments between the par- The party mia out en donkeys, in onts and the son due to home tron- rickahas, or in mountain chairs. gle apparently led to his ungovern. Very often the temples are at the able outburst. summit of quite high hills, and the i pugrim-way consists of hundreds of i stone steps up the hillside the work of past generations. The chair-bearers are agile and sure. footed, and often as they climb they sing & Toad shanty. Legend ha that a Western lady once, insisted on having a translation of her chair bearers, Bong

ed to her chagrin and

IST FRANCIS

Euro-:· Chi- pean nese.

including Commer- cial News and Church relays....... 63 Evening Transmissiona.99)

351

78

1821 1141

Monthly percentage: Europeal 38.72: Chinese 41.28.

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