1935-02-19 — Page 7

DR. M. H. CHAUN PASSES AWAY

Prominent Pioneer Chinese Dentist

His many friends w regret to learn of the death of Dr. Moon Hung Chaun at his residence at No. 9 Beltran Road, yesterday at 250 pm, at the age of 8 years after a brief iness He is sur- vived by his wife, one son Dr. E W. Chaun and four daughters May Ching (Mrs. Chan Hing Wah), Shui Ching, Ol Ching and Wat

Ching.

The late Dr. Chaun led a most romantle life, being in every sense of the word, a self-made "man.

Born la the country as Hol Ping, Kwong Tung Province, he lost his father at the age of four. Un daunted and full of courage, he joined a party of his country men and went to the United States at the age of 13. Instead of pursuing the usual vocation as usually the

NEW KING'S COUNSEL

Mr. HG. Sheldon

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935.

H.K. POLICE

RESERVES

(ORDERS BY THE HON, MR. T.

H. KING, IGP.).

Chinese Company The many friends of Mr. H. G. Sheldon, the well-known barrister.

Inspection Parade.—All ranks of will be pleased to learn of his ap the Chinese Company #III pärade, pointment as King's Counsel, news at Central Police Station on Thurs- of which, it is understood, was re-day, February 21, at 17.30 hours ceived from Fame on Saturday:

Mr. Sheldon first came out to Hong Kong in 1926, and has for some time past been doing a great deal of leading work at the local which he has been engaged was Bar. The most famous case" in

in the Cheng Kwok Yau trial perhaps that of leading counsel

Apart from his legal activities,

Mr. Sheldon also takes a great in

terest in sport, being a Steward of

the Hong Kong Jockey Club and frequently officiates as referee at local boxing contests.

rule, he aspired for higher educa- FRENCH CONVENT

tien.

Going through the

public schools, he

usual entered the

University of Pennsylvania. Phils-

delphia, in the year 1896, graduat-

ing in 1899 with the

Doctor of

degree of Dental Surgery, thus

Chinese to

After prac- for a fév

becoming the first hold that distinction. tising in New York years he returned to Hong Kong in 1901 and started the practice of dentistry in which he com- manded a large lentele. both among the European and Chinese community. He relinquished his practice two years ago being suc- ceeded by his son. Dr. K. W. Chaun.

In 1002 the late Dr. Chaun married Lin-Oi," the eighth daugh- ter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Ng Lin Took of Hong Kong, having by this marriage eleven children (six sons and 5 daughters), of whom only the aforementioned survived him, Dr. Chaun' belong- ed very much to the old school, being retiring to ah extreme de- gree and generous to his fellow- men. Only those that he has

SCHOOL

Music Certificates Presented

The pupils of the French Con- vent School who were successful at the Trinity College, London, examinations received afternoon, their

on Friday certificates and prizes for music which were dis- tributed by Mrs. A. R. Sutherland,

under Sub-Inspector R. J. Hunt for a géneral Inspection of equipment, etc., by the Company Commander, Dress Blue Uniform, Cap with wälte Cover, Belt with Brace, Armlet with Badge, "Pocket Police The Equipment Officer will make a man" and noté-book to be carried.

point of being present:

Flying Squzd of the Flying Squad who have been Special Duty-The ten members

detalled for duty at the Races will parade at Central Police Station on the following days:-February 18, 19 and 20, at 10.30 hours, and on February 23 at 12.00 hours.

D. L. KING, DS.P. (R.). Hong Kong, February 18, 1935.

OBITUARY

Major L. Cassel

have to announce the

We very much regret that we Major Louis Cassel, OBE, an old death of resident of Hong Kong, witch occurred on Sunday at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, near London,

い

FITTING OUT OF THE

QUEEN MARY

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Happy Augury For The, Clydesiders

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gaged in carrying out shares, small or large, in a variety of contracts, all of which are essen- tial to the complete design of the world's greatest liner.

London, Jan. 29.* touches to her steering gear; and mg-an event "which

Three months after her launch-in other centres people are en- standing among the occurrences of Was out-

1934-the 73,000-ton Queen Mary may seem to have passed from the public ken, to reappear as Agure of topical importance only

Scene at Night when, in the spring or early sum- As she lies in the fitting-out. White Star liner goes down the mer of 1936, the great Cunard-basin alongside the berth from which she was launched, the Clyde to run her trials and begin her sailing career on the North Atlantic...

Bit to the people of Clydebank and Clydeside the Queen Mary is still a lively and practical interest. Workmen are still swarming over and inside the big vessel. The riveters and platers who have been dispensed with since the launch at the end of September have been replaced by carpenters. joiners, engineers, electricians,

and other tradesmen essential to the vast and complex task of t ting out a ship of her size and importance.

Actually, about 3,000 men-most- ly joiners and fitters of one kind or another are now employed on but a small idea of the full total the liner; but that figure affords of workers who are finding em- ployment in auxiliary trades all over the country through the equipment necessary for the Queen Mary.

wife of Mr. A, R. Sutherland, in poor health for some consider- The late Major Cassel had been O., Inspector of English Schools able time and left the Colony in The ceremony was

A short time ago a Govan firm

and private one.

ал informal

was given the order for the liner's November last. He first came out 24 steel lifeboats (unsinkable and here in October, 1914 when he fireproof; Belfast mill-girls are was for a time D.A.AQ.M.G. In busy weaving the ship's linen; at the China Command and Press Rugby men are working on her Censor. He was prominently as-turbo-generators; others in Edia sociated some years ago with syndicate which endeavoured to

burgh are putting the finishing secure coal mining concessions in Kwangtung Province He was alte

The school report for 1934, which as read by Rev. Father Byrne,

S.T., was as follows:-

Mr. A; R. Sutherland inspected the school on November 5 and 6, and gave the following report.

Building. Good. It is kept

helped in his practice can testify scrupulously clean and in good greatly interested in journalistic UNCANNY TALES

to the fulfilment of his charit- able acts.

The funeral will take place on Wednesday morning the 20th inst. the cortege leaving his residence 210 am and a service will be held at the Church at the Chin- ese Christian Cemetery at Pok- Tulum at 12 noon.

ANNUAL SERVICE OF FREEMASONS

"Potentiality For Good"

The annual service of the Dis- trict Grand Lodge of Hong Kong and South China was held at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday night, representatives of all English and Scottish District Grand Lodges being present

The Rev, N. V. Halward, District Grand Chaplain, conducted the service and was assisted by the Rev. E. W. L. Martin, Past Dis trict Grand Chaplain, and sent Head of St. Stephen's Col- lege.

order and condition:

Equipment.-Good. Attendance.-On Roll 364 (353 in 1933). Present at Inspectioa number on the roll is now 375. 358 (347 1933). The actual

Staff.-Adequate, to code require-

ments.

Organisation: -A Kindergarten Department and the usual Classe: 1-8 with two division of" Class 7 and 8.

Discipline-Excellent.

General Mr. Sutherland was

pleased to see the introduction of

for a

work and was the founder, of "The Critic' a Hong Kong weekly journal of which he was time editor: He had also served on the Committee of the Hong Kong Automobile Associations.

THE POET AND HIS BEER

'new' and up-to-date text-books When Firdausi Was

all through the school, and also new methods in the Kindergarten, where the plasticine work was ex- cellent. The singing was also very. good Throughout, the school reading was good and colloquial was very good Indeed. Arithmetic was satisfactory and dictation done.

Swindled

OF MURDER

Queen Mary is now visible to the pubile only stern on to the river.. or, from a distance on the Dal- mut: side, lengthwise on the one side. From the latter aspect she appears to resemble à huge, long block of #ght-grey buildings run- ning from the dwelling-houses which

Brown's adjoin Messrs. yard down to the river's edge. At night this aspect takes on a fairy- land-like suggestion from the numerous crane lights, and the myriad famps which hang from deck structures, Above deck the Queen Mary has not grown SO very much since her launch-the huge superstructures which will make her immensity more pro- nounced are only. beginning to take shape.

One thing more. Just as the resumption of work on the Mner last year made her a symbol of reviving hope on Clydèside, so she, still remains the Bymbol of Clyde- bank's faith and confidence. From the decks or holds of the Queen Mary recently there stepped many continued employment on the a. bridegroom, whose prospects of

completion of the liner led to dozens of New Year marriages in. Clydebank and Dalmuir, A happy! ship, a happy augury.

"NORDIC" FAITH

IN GERMANY

Weird ExperiencesNow Claims 2,000,000

In Africa

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London, Feb. 29. Weird tales of murder by witch craft and of a body that Govern- craft and of a body that "cas

#!

Adherents

Much uneasiness has been aroused lately in certain circles by news of continued accessions of strength to the movements led

appeared were told by Dr. G.B by Dr. Arthur Dinter, which is Kirkland, formerly Government | working for the establishment of medical officer in Southern Rho- desta, in a lecture to the Inter- national Institute of Psychical Research,

Three types of "murder by witchcraft" came under his direct notice, he said:

This is direct murder, as the as- 1-The Handshake of Death.

the witch

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London, Jan. 29. The great Persian poets live again to-day (so far as the collec tests were very well tor is concerned) in the gorgeous Drawing and needlework, illustrated manuscripts which especially in the upper classes, pear from time to time in the sassin is endowed by

ap. showed excellent results. The auction room. Thus we are to see doctor with the "power"" to kill school continued to be efficient. at Sotheby's several magnificent his victim by shaking hands with After reading the report, the versions of the Book of Kings-him-and the victim has such in- Rev. Father Byrne thanked Mr. Shah-Namah-by the Persian Vir- tense faith in this "magic" that and Mrs. Sutherland, on behalf of gil, Firdausi, epic which when told afterwards that it was the Rev. Mother Superior, staff scholars have not hesitated to call a deata handshake he dies. pre-

and pups. for their kind visits to standing wonder in the postic the school and the interest they

literature of the world. had always shown in the cfldren's

60,000

pay

a national "Nordic" religion above ali differences of creed,

It is understood that 2,000,000 people throughout the Reich have. now rallied to this religious lead-

er.

Dr. Dinter, who has had a che- master, theatrical director, officer, quered career as chemist, school-

novelist and Nazi politician, is a man of whom much may be heard in the future,

No Jewish Accretions I-1929-his-religious viewe brought him into conflict with 2-The Spell of Death. The Herr Eller, who was then an- This national opic of

devil doctor, for an In the absence of the District

verses was composed over 900 years

exorbitant | xious to do nothing which might fee, pronounces a death curse on offend the Catholic Church. To- Grand Master, the Hod. Mr. J. work.

The teachers and pupils of the Mahmud, who agreed to Owen Hughes, the senior member French Convent had always look- Firdausi

ago to the order of the Sultan someone. "I have seen perfectly day he is more dangerous, for healthy natives dying by inches Herr Himmler, "the head of "the of the English Constitution pre- ford with pleasure to Mr. verse. On the completion of the Kirkland. sent and Mr. J. L. McPherson, Sutherland's inspections, said Fr work the Sultan ordered his trea

#gold piece for every under this ample curse," said Dr. secret police; Dr. Goebbels, Minis

ter of Propaganda; and Herr Ro- Deputy District Grand Master,

3-The Stretcher of Death. A Benberg, Cultural Dictator, are all and the senior of the Scottish Byme; for they knew that he surer to load an elephant with as stretcher of green twigs is placed understood to sympathise with his Constitution. Mr. E. J. Edwards, came as a friend to help them much gold as the beast could carry secretly against the victim's door aims Mr. W. Hamilton, District Grand and to encourage them in their for despatch to the poet The at night, and once he touches it Briefly he stands" for a simpli- Director of Ceremonies, and Mr. tasks. They would not forget trassurer substituted silver. When he pines away and dies, knowing fled "Christian" religion in which E. Stone, Assistant Director, and either that he always gave them the elephant arrived Firdausi was

he will be carried to his grave on the teachings of the "Aryan” Dr. W. B. A. Moore, District Grand & holiday, which they greatly ap-

infuriated at the deception.".

such a stretcher. But if he should | leaders are freed from Jewish ac- Bentor Warden were among those

preciated.

be forewarned that it is at the cretions especially from the writ- present. →

of his hut, and fee. door he may break the mud walls ings of the "Rabbi" Paul,

Many believe that the ground Dead Chief Mystery

will be cleared for a fight to the Dr. Kirkland attributes these death: between the forces of or- deaths to a "subjective peyohlo thodax Christianity, whether Ca- force and a kind of self-de-tholic or Evangelical, and the straction by fear

new national religion towards

" which was well filled by members of the public interested in the movement. Following the usual evensong, the Rev. Mr. Halward gave a brief address from the pulpit taking as his text the words of St. Paul: "Charity neyer. falleth."

Successful Pupils

The following pupils received certificates.---

Advanced Senior Conchite Lu- zuriaga and Annie Nissen.

Senior Marjory Tan, Joan Duckworth, Mabel La Ping

Intermediate-Paula Hollands, Jeannette Wong..

and the figure of the dead man

Gesture of Contempt On behalf of all present, Father Led by the choir singing the pro- Bye then bade Mr. and Mrs. enraged poet, he presented the With a gesture, worthy of any cessional hymn "Glorious things Southerland farewell, "bon, vor-driver wish 20,000 silver pieces of Thee are spoken," the Free age and a happy rest in the old another 20,000 he gave to a bath- Masons led into the Catheral country.

keeper, and the third 20,000 he paid to a beerseller for a glass of beor.

In the and the post had to fee for his life, but he penned a satire A enler died, and there were ru- dually deprived of an outlet for its

Here is a strange story he told, which National Socialism, STE

which to-day is always perized to therefore went to exhume the politics, may be expected more and on Mahmud as a parting shot.mours of murder, Dr. Kirkland radical tendencies in economies of the Shah Namah

One of the beautiful copies to be body, but the witch doctor beg more to lean, sold, written in Nasta-lig charact ged him not to Dr Kirkland He said: "Free" Masons are

ers in 1483, contains a "remarkable Insisted; the grave was opened, criticised uphill and downdale be-

ministure showing an early it cause people know that one of our

tempt at aviation—Kai Kaus being lay there in his blanketed at the witch doctor's com- main precepts is to carry out of

tempted by Iblis to fly to heaven. Yet when native boys went mand?" asked Dr. Kirkland "Per- the divine law, of love, and so

The Persian heroes, Sohrab and down into the grave, they cried sonally, I do not I muggest to Rustam (whom Matthew Arnold There is no body, many of us fit to prevent that

Incredulous you that this is a case of power- characteristice of love in our lives- The Lugard Scholarship Certi used for a poem), are great figures De Kirkland probed with his ful psychic inhibition, emanating `and seven in our masonic lives." - ficate for 1934 was won by Marin Firdausi's epic.

stick-and found nothing there. - from the witch doctor, whose de- "Another famous Peraian poet, The preacher added that Free Jory Lee

The graver Masonry was a wonderful poten-

left guarded, eire was not so much to protect Nizami (1141-1903) in represented and later the witch doctor de the dead as the murderer. The special test prize for 1834 by several illuminated manuscripta tiality for good and it had chang- was won by Barbara Day. After of his romantic tale, Khamsah, and Clared that the body was there By "psychic Inhibition" be ed the lives of many men for the the distribution, a presentation Badi, who born in 1184, lived to be better. True charity was to rea-was made to Mr. and Mrs, Suther- 107, is glorified in a beautifully lise that one of the Jobs in life land from the Rev. Mother Super illustrated version of his Bustan was to suffer and sympathise with fer, star and pupils, after which in praise of a ruit garden. But others.

Little Pauline Beck handed athere is no illuminated manuscript The service concluded with the pretty basket of African daisies to to embellish the Rubaiyat of Omar singing of the National Anthem. Mrs Sutherland.

Khayyam

Junior Thelma Alvares, Preparatory-Peggy Kinchin. Preparátory

honours) Pauline Beck,

Be

and the

retur

in fact the with erk

were bewitched

and was brought up

Inhibition"?

meant a kind of mesmerie in- fluence cast by the witch doctor

on those around.

Do you think the body Re- tually left the, grave and return-

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