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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1933.

ECHOES OF 1859

35-A Piracy Near Macao May 6, 1859

We have been favoured with the, following communication from

Macao:-

Having completely gutted the boat of everything of any value, they left in the boats that had come alongside. When gone, it was found that they had spiked a small gun which the steamer carried "on A pivot forward and had taken away

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY

350th Anniversary Celebrated

H'KONG CELEBRATION

On Saturday night graduates and members of Edinburgh University met to celebrate the 30th Anniver- Bary of the Founding of the Univer- sity. The celebration took the form at the Hong Kong Hotel followed of a dinner in, the. Jacobean Recen by dancing in the Ball Room The

sent:-

Hornell,

guest of

Dr. & Mrs. E, W. Kirk. Dr. & Mrs. Li Shu Fan Mr. & Mrs. S. V. Boxer Mr. & Mrs. W. Kay Professor & Mrs." R. · K. 'M.

Simpson.

"The Kam Faa left, this morning at 8 o'clock on her regular trip to Cheong Sha, about 8 miles to the Westward of Macao, with 40 Chinese passengers, of whom eight were just with them the starting bar of the University Sir W. W.

Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong from California, with between $4,000 engine, to prevent chase being CI.E. WAS present" as to 85,000, When about half way, made. At length the Californian

The following were pre- the Captain (Graves) and a Seedy, Chinese on board, cursed their ill-bonour. the only foreigners on board were luck in good stout English style, Dr. R. M. Gibson, suddenly attacked by the passengers and made reference to the plunder- about 30 of whom instabtly tookers in a language, "which" we could possession of the boat, threatening only expect to hear in a ship's the lives of the Chinese stokers and forecastle or at the "diggings." engineers, and placing one at the They are much to be pitied being helm, others in the engine room, As they told me now without a The pirates, as I suppose I cash in the world: They had on must call them, drove the Captain an average, about. 8500 each. to his cabin, 'inficting upon the side

Since the above was in type we of his head, a terrible blow with the sword, and almost cutting off have received a letter from Macao his thumb, and kept him within his dated yesterday morning. Seven of cabin while they broke open his the ruffians; who committed the box, chest of drawers and trunks, piracy have been apprehended-

The they were caught in a house by the taking all they could find. attack was hardly commenced when police the previous night, about three boats came alongside and eleven o'clock. In their depositions their crews crowded on board. The before the Procurador, the Cali cabin, the doors and furniture were tornian Chinese stated their loss to covered with blood from the wounds be $2,000, but it is thought "they of the Captain, the Seedy and the are exaggerating.

etc.

crew.

JAPANESE ARMY

MANOEUVRES

Emperor Leaves Tokyo For The "Front”

Tokyo, Oct. 23.

tions and ordered

everything

A

TROUBLES OF SOLDIERS. When training the army recruits attention is to accustom them to one of the things given particular

after entering the barracks the new wearing shoes. About a month soldiers are marched for about five miles a day. After about a month

Mr. & Mr. W. J. Carrie

Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Fraser Mr. & Mrs. W. J. E. Mackenzie.

Mr. & Mr. P: E-Barker' Mt. & Mr. E, Law Dr. & Mr. J. B. Ross Dr. & Mrs. J. E. Dovey Dr. & Mrs. J. A. R. Selby Dr. & Mra J. Durran Dr. & Mrs. R. S. Begbie Dr. & Mrs. J. B. Mackie Dr. J. C. Macgown Mr. J. S. MacLaren Professor L. J. Davis

Dr. T. P. Woo

Mr. R. Hunter

Mr. J. Ferguson

Mr. E. R. Bryden

Mr. J. B. Macdonald →

The toast of Our Alma, Mater" was proposed by Professor R.K.M.' Simpson, M.C. A telegram of con-" gratulations was sent to Sir Thomas. Holland, Principal of the Univer sity.

WORLD WIDE CELEBRATIONS

In Edinburgh the anniversary ceremonies were held on Friday and Saturday; and overseas. gra- duates arranged local gather- ings throughout the wide world.

There are about 3,500 Edinburgh graduates abroad, in addition to 15,000 in Great Britain. Principal Sir Thomas Holland has said. Emperor Hirohito left the Impossible, done for their comfort. They are so widely scattered that perial Central at 8 o'clock this Funeral services for the unstroke one could say with safety that the morning by special train for the fatalities were held with full mili- sun never sets on the General city of Fukul to superintend, stary honours.

Council"

All- graduates of the supreme commander, the army

University are entitled to mem- manœuvres commencing day after

"bership of the General Council. to-morrow in the Horurikudo dis-

The first batch of Edinburgh trict, some 250 miles west of Tokyo.

Rollock on October 14, 1583. They students assembled under Robert The Emperor will rest to-night in the palace at Kyoto, and reach

half of these succeeded in com- numbered about eighty. More than Fuku to-morrow. He will make

pleting their his head quarters in the Fukui

which was four years, and an ear- course of study. prefectural government building.

For strategic purpose the army this, they are marched some 10 ly historian tells us, "in August authorities are keeping secret the miles a day, and so on. Most of 1587, Maister Robert Rollock did exact number of men engaged in

the privates in the Japanese army laureate the first class which was the maneuvrca" until they are con- are country boys, due to their passed under his charge in the cluded. Usually well-informed ob-physique being superior to that of College of Edinburgh, after every servers, however cstimate the city youths, and, until they enter number at around 60,000. This is the army the only footwear most of covenant. They were to the num based on the belief that between them are accustomed to is "gets"

or of forty-eight; among whom (wooden clogs) which allow the foot were many able wits.' In 1804 it to expand naturally. It is recalled was enacted that students of the Shanghi fighting last year the ing the covenant, should sign an that in the early part of the University, in addition to subscrib- early part of the Shanghai fighting oath of fidelity to their "alma the Japanese forces were all land- mater." To this day it is neces- ing parties from warships, and sary, before being admitted to a from foot blisters caused by tramp- "Eponsio academica" which is in Liese mnen suffered considerably University course, to Bign this

one and Two divisions will be on-

gaged on each side of the sham battle, which lasts three days. The manœuvres are being held on a full war footing, and the wartime strength of division is roughly 20,000 men, while the peace strength of an infantry division is about

10,000,

north and south armies are Lieu-

one of them had subscribed the

The commanders of the opposing ing about in shoes.

the nature of an oath of allegi- Lieutenant-General Takeshi ance, perseverance and obedience. tenant-General Yoshikatau Aramaki Hirose, President of the Military

THE SCHOOL "OF-MEDICINE Keichi Academy, Lieutenant-General Mikio and Lieutenant-General

-Much of the fame of Edinburgh Harada, respectively. Prince Kan-Furusho, of the General Staff Office, University rests on its School of in and Lieutenant-General Kenki- and Lieutenant-General Saburo Medicine, long recognised as the chi Uyeda, chief and vice-chief of Satoh were to-day appointed chief leading organisation of its kind in the Army Geceral staff respectively, judges for the Grand Autumn the world. It had its beginning are assumnig those duties in respect Manuvres in Fukui Prefecture about 1870, when Andrew Balfour of the manoeuvres, while Lieuten- which will commence Tuesday, established what was strangely

Lieutenant-General ant-General foshizo Nishio is chief Aramaki, commander of the Nineth Holyrood Abbey.

Yoshikatau called a "medicine. garden near of operations.

Army Division, and Colonel T. It is sometimes argued whether PROTECTING THE SOLDIER, Miyake, chief staff officer of the the present era, or the latter part 9th Division, were selected to com- of the eighteenth century, const1- That the high command of the mand the military review to be held tute the greatest period. In the 'army does it utmost to protect the

famie.. health and comfort of the heitai, October 27, following the man University's

Those who praise the past, contend that the san" ("Mr. Boldier"), as the soldier boys are popularly called-as

end of the eighteenth century was the necessities of military training

the golden age of the city of

ouvres. Vaited Press...

permit is shown by the fact that “KING KONG'S” TOOTH! the manoeuvres have been spcoded up this year to avoid the rainy sea- son in Hokurikudo.

Usually the autumn grand man- ocuvres are held in November, but as that is when the rain falls most beavily in Fukui and Ishikawa pre

Found in The Kam District

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Edinburgh, as Town and "Gown

$5.50 to $14.50 features, they are being held to- man named To Ah Chung of the Chair of Rhetoric and English Li-

$6.50 to $9.50.

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ward the end of this mouth, when the weather is at its best, to avoid the troops being soaked with con- sequent danger of getting colds, in- fluenza, etc. Another consideration is that the rice fields are in the best condition for troop movements just

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were then more closely related than at any other time. It was a great literary age. Edinburgh had an outstanding group of scholars, The following strange story, for wits and authors, The Univer- which we take no responsibility, sity was under the guidance of appears in a Chinese newspaper: Principal William Robertson. the While digging a grave; a work historian; Hugh Blair held the Nam Tong village in the Tie Kamerature (claimed to be the first District, Waichow, found a large chair of English in any British tooth believed to be a relic of University), while Adam Fergu- some pre-historic animal,

son, "followed by Dugald Stewart, taught Philosophy.

EXTRAORDINARY EXTENSION

As against these claims of the past, abellever in the present might quote the extraordinary ex- tension of Edinbugh University since the war. During these fir teen years, there have been "es- tablished no less than sixteen new chairs. In the ... Bix... Faculties. Arts, Science, Divinity, Law, Me- "dicine- and -Music-there are now fifty-nine, professors, one hundred and · sixty readers and lecturers, and nearly a hundred assistanta

The tooth was found at a depth of about six feet, and its colour is white and yellow. It has sharp. points at the corners, and its weight is about arteen catties.

It is reported that the tooth has been removed to To Ah Chung's house, where it is the cynosure of many pairs of curious eyes

POPPY DAY FUND

The army had a painful experi ence in divisional midsummer man- oeuvres this year at the base of Mt. Fuji, when scores of soldiers suffered sunstroke, half a dozen dying as a result. This year's sunaner was unusual for ita long sustained besh, and the day the sunatroke deaths occurred began with a hot drizzle of what the Japanese call "silk thread rain This humidity made the unusual heat that midday unbearable for the Previously acknowledged 82,130.00 tharching troops. They were moy Hong Kong Cricket Club ing, under war time ordern and H. BR, Hancock, Esq. Could not be immediately stopped PA Cox, Est but when the commander of the Et CSFrederick, manoeuvres, a fortain distinguish-J

ed personage heard of the troops suffering, he at once baked opera

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and demonstrators. In 1932-33- 100.00 there were 4,248 undergraduates, 25.00 and 814. degrees were "conferred. 25,00 There are a greater number of sta- 25.00 dents from oversesa in Edinburgh 10.00 than in any other British Univer-

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