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

Around the Courts

AT THE MARINE COURT

-Odd-Job Coolie Fined

Two months' hard labour was passed on Cheung" "Lam-kiu, `aged 32, unemployed, when he appeared before Mr. Grantham at the Kow- loon Magistracy. yesterday, and pleaded guilty to the possession of 23

counterfeit ten-cent pieces.

Before the Hon, Commander G. F. Hole yesterday morning, Chan Ming, described as an odd-Job Det.-Sub-Inspector Poyntz stated coolle, was charged with boarding that defendant was arrested in the s.s Kiangsu last Saturday Yu Chau Street on Sunday on in- without permission of the master formation received. or the officer-on-duty.

The accused pleaded guilty and a fine of $30 or in default three weeks hard labour was imposed.

MISUSE OF: PASSENGER BOAT

A boatman named Cheung Tal who was charged with unlawfully using his Passenger Boat for the conveyance of cargo Fear the Naval Camber last Saturday, was fined $10 or in default one week's härd labour.

VERY FIERCE WOMAN

Two women Chan Heans and

Chan Kan

were brought

before

Mr. A. W. G. Grantham at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday charged with assaulting Cheng Tai 裁 married woman on Saturday evening. This was alleged to be a sequel to remarks passed by several children about a young married woIZIMIT,

Complainant in the witness box stated that she was on a visit to her mother at No. 5 Cooke Street at about 8 pm on Saturday and while passing No. 3 in company with her

children pased remarks about her which were resented. This led to the first complainant » rushing

and abusing her. The second grabbed her while the first struck her with a pair of scissors

mother some

out

.:

Sergt. Nolan informed his Wor- ship that the first defendant was a very quarrelsome person and was also very fierce. There could not be found any witnesses to the assault as they were afraid to come forward. "

•

THE MARCH SESSIONS

Heavy List Of Cases

A large number of cases and Prisoners comprise the calendar of which opens to-day at the Supreme the March Criminal Sessions,

Court before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice A. D. A "MacGregor, and the Pubne Judge, Mr. Justice R. E Lindsell

-Ll Hung, 22, unemployed. was sent to prison for one month by Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Centraling. Folice Court yesterday stealing a glass jar containing preserved le-

mon from No. 275 Queen's Road

44

H. K. POLICE RESERVES

Orders issued by Mr. D. Burling- ham, Inspector-General, of Police, for the week are as follows:-

OBITUARY

Dr. A. S. Donaldson:

We regret to have to announce. the death of Dr. Anson Scott. Chinese Company

Donaldson, D.S.O., of the Empress. Training Course (Part II)-All of Japan, at the Kowloon Hospital recruits of the Chinese Company yesterday morning.

who have not yet passed Part II. Deceased was admitted to Hos-

of Training Course will attend at pital suffering

from" doublo the Chinese Company Headquar paeumonts and despite all that ters on Tuesday, March 18 at 17.30 could be done for him he passed hours for instruction.

AWAY.

Morse Signalling Class: - All | members of the Morse Signalling Dr. Donaldson had had a bril- Sixteen cases are down for hear-Class will attend at the Chinese lant miltary career seeing ser-

African.. Irefuding two charges of Company Headquarters on Wednes- vice during the South murder, manslaughter and robbery day, March 20 at 17.30 hours for War and with the Canadian Medi-

cal Corps during the Great War,. instruction. and 22 prisoners are involved.

The Chief Justice will deal with

Inspection Parade:--All ranks of in which he held a commission.

The funeral will take place on Central. Inspector AW. Smith the following thais:-Yeung Yan the Chinese Company will parade stated that the defendant was ar-Yau, murder: Leang Yim, man-

at Central Police Station on Thurs- Wednesday afternoon when the rested, carrying the jar.

slaughter; Sung Yung, Ip Yau, Ip day, March 21 at 17.30 hours under Empress of Japan returns from Hing, Lok Sau, Chan Shing and Sub-Inspector R. J. Hunt for a gen-Manila- Chan Sang. robbery by two or eral inspection of equipment, etc., more, lo Hing also being charged press-Blue Uniform, Cap

by

*

Arrested as he was going into a fane at Nanking Street at 1.30 am. on Friday Kwok Chi-cheung, aged

possession of a screw-driver, an electric torch and four keys. When he was brought before Mr. Grant- ham at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, the defendant admitted that he was going to steal, and was sentenced to three weeks' hurd labour.

20, unemployed, was found to have

with receiving stolen property; Ya

the Company

Commander. with

Chung, robbery with violence: Ng White Cover, Belt with Brace. A ROYAL VISIT

wong, wounding with 'intent, and woundar; Cheung Kan allas Shek Fat, child stealing: Chau Cho, Ho Wing and Kwok Kan Hi, murder,

The Pulsne Judge

The Pulsne Judge will hear the following cases:-Chan Ping Chiu, unlawful possession of arms and Seen in a side lane, as he was ammunition; Tang Hing, Cheung, going away with a cotton quilt that unlawful possession of arms and he had stolen on Saturday, Chan ammunition, Li Ming ällas Li Kau. Yee, aged 34, unemployed, Was

and Yp Sing, robbery by two or brought before Mr. Grantham at more; Trang Pang Sun alias Tsang at the Kowloon Magistracy yester-Shing, two charges of robbery by day, and was fined $25, or three two or more; Li Hung and Li Ping, four charges of uttering forged weeks hard labour. The com-

notes: L Hung, uttering forged plainant was An in, aged 23. a.

notes. knitting factory worker. Detective Sub-Inspector Poyntz, who pro- secuted stated that the quilt was valued at $7.

Arrested in Queen's Road Central near the junction of Possession Street, with 160 Hong Kong po-płu lottery tickets, Li Wat, aged 62. a coolie, was fined $50, or six A fine of $5. with the alternative weeks hard labour by Mr. Wynne- of seven days' imprisonment was Jones in the Central Magistracy imposed upon the first defendant, yesterday. Inspector Smith sald and the second defendant was | defendant was arrested. on' In- bound over the sum of $5, to keep formation and the tickets the peace for six months.

found in an inside pocket.

were

PORTUGUESE CONSUL LEAVING

New Appointment Made

We understand that the Marquis de Fialho will be relinquishing his post as Portuguese Consul in Hong Kong on 31st. inst, and that' Mr. P. M. Nolasco da Silva has been appointed Acting Portuguese Consul.

The Marquis de Ficalno besides being in Army officer is a barris- ter-at-law and will take up the

Armiet with Badge, Truncheon. "Pocket Policeman" and note- book to be carried. The Equipment

Officer will make a point of being present,

Indian Company "Commendation:-Constable R246 Mohammed Usaf Khan is com- mended by the Inspector General of Police for good work done in effecting the arrest of a Chinese male for larceny in Shanghai Street on 31.1 35. The prisoner was subsequently

sentenced by the

TO GLASGOW"

By Duke & Duchess Of Kent

(Special Air Mail Service)

Glasgow, Feb. 25. The Duke and Duchess of Kent are likely to visit Glasgow in June Police Magistrate, Kowloon to one month's Hard Labour. Case No. to open the new extension for pay- 1644.

ing patients at the Victoria In- Inspection Parade:-All ranks of firmary.

the Indian Company will parade at

Central Police Station on Wednesyet been arranged for the proposed Although no definite plans have

visit mor a date fixed, other en-

day, March 20 at 17.30 bours un- der Sub-Inspector R. J. Hunt for a general inspection of equipment, gagements suggested for them are etc., by the Company Commander, the laying of the foundation-stone Dress Blue Uniform, Cap with at the new Royal Infirmary exten- White Cover, Belt with Brace, slon at Canniesburn and a visit to Armlet with Badge. Truncheon, the Y.W.C.A. in Bath Street. "Pocket Policeman and note- The Lord Provost, Bir Alexander book to be carried. The Equip-B. Swan, made the announcement ment Officer will make a point of of the probable visit of the royal being present.

couple to Glasgow, when he pre- Flying Squad

sided at the annual meeting of the Instructional Patrol: The in-Victoria Infirmary. structional patrol fer members of, the Flying Squad will take place on Friday, March 29. All members will fall in at Central Police Station at 17.15 hours Dress: Blue Uni-

FORGOTTEN MEN' A STREAM-LINED post of Chief Justice, Macao, dur- form, and Cap with White Caver.

Siege Of Ladysmith Recalled

(Special Alt Mall Service)

London, March 1.

"We are at present forgotten men, said Gêneral, Sir Ian Hamilton to the Defendera of Ladysmith, when he presided at their dinner in London..

This gathering of OUTS ia essentially a rank and file affair." Sir Ian said. "There is no Red Poppy Fand behind us; no mil lionaire, very few officers.

"We manage all right except when we want to bury one another. Then I must say it is sometimes a bit of a job to screw some old hero into a private, home-made coffa and save him from a pauper's gräve.

Last Come, First Served

FIRE ENGINE

Londoner's Design

ing the absence on leave "of Mr. Raposo

Emergency Unit Reserve

22.

Should the visit be definitely arranged, this will be the first time the Duchess of Kent has visited Glasgow, although the Duke, as Prince George, has made frequent visits to the city.

AN OLD CUSTOM parade outside Queen's Pier at 17.20 Glasgow visit will, it is expected, be

Why Town Clerk Signs Surname

hours sharp. Dress-optional.

D. L. KING,

D.S.P. (R.). Hong Kong, March 18.

It will be recalled, however, that Riot DrillA Riot Drill will be the Duchess has already been in carried out by members of the Scotland-when she stayed at Bal- Emergency Unit Reserve on Fri- thoral Castle last autumn on a visit day, March Members will to the King and Queen-but the

the first public engagement carried out by the Duke and Duchess north of the Border since their marriage. The Lord Provost, in making the announcement while referring to the work of the paying patients' branch of the Infirmary, sald he had been approached on behalf of Sir James Bell, the rettring Town The design is the first of its

Through the conclusion of the the Victoria Infirmary to ask the Clerk of the City of London, whose type, either in Europe or America,

new union-agreement between the Duke and Duchess to come north to combine in one machine a 600 brilliant service has been the sub- gallon fire pump, a 40ft extension ject of appreciative references by passenger service between Europe some time in June.

Hapag and Lloyd, the German to perform the opening ceremony dder, book ladders, oxygen the Lord Mayor and members of and the Far East has been assigned

He had received letters from breathing apparatus, and means the City Corporation, signed, it is exclusively to the Norddeutscher their private secretary stating that recalled, all notices with his sur-Lloyd. Bremen. It follows then the Duke and Duchess would be name alone---Bell,

The first streamlined fire engine, an all-enclosed motor-pump, has been delivered by the manufac turers, Messrs. Dennis Bros,, of Guildford, at the London Fire Brigade headquarters.

NEW PASSENGER SERVICE

well-

for laying out hose quickly from the fire to the hydrant The streamlined body is designed to

that in future, besides the steam-very pleased to accept the invita- In so doing (writes a representa

ers "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau"tion if a suitable time could be tive of "The Observer," he fol- protect the men against the wea ther when travelling to a fre

the

will arranged, The Duke and Duchess Norddeutscher Lloyd The cinchine is to the design of lowed, as his predecessors did, a operate the steamer, "Potsdam" as had also suggested that he might Major C. G. B-Morris, Chief | custom which has been traced.

arrange a programme of visits for Officer of the Brigade.

back to John Carpenter, the "Alt this is natural enough-it Several new features appear in famous Common Clerk of the arrangement was the fact in parti

The decisive factor for, this new the day they were in Glasgow.

The paying patients wing, which is the way of the world-last the engine. The auction hose for teenth century, who was one of cular, that the Norddeutscher Lloyd is carried on without being a bur

the pump come, first served. Still it seeme coupling up

to the the four executors of the will of has always taken a leading part den to the general income of the hardly fair that a real adventure hydrants is stowed in

tunnels Richard Whittington, and in 1436 in the German Far East traffic Infirmary, has always a waiting like that of Ladysmith should have running through the body to pre was elected one of the representa- to play second. fiddle to for vent it becoming damaged when instance, Passchendaele.

not in use. The crew are equipped tives of the City in Parliament.

of self- with the latest type

In the Record Room at Guildhali contained oxygen breathing apamongst the treatured achives of paratus to enable them to deal the City is the great Libra Albus, quickly with smoky fires in base or White Book, containing the ments, and also to deal with dan most intimate detalls of the City's

with which gerous fumes

affairs and laws, written in the

There lay nothing to write home about in Passchendaele. In Ladysmith with all its stores and equipment lay South Africa. Had South Africa been lost then where would all the gold mines have been? Not in the Bank of Eng land anyway.

And yet, iny friends, we must face up to it; we are at present forgotten men. Yes, comrades, there's no blinking the fact. But so long as we ourselves remember

that's the main thing." Mule soup was not on the menu, but the survivors were joking. about it.

That Mule Soup

ja

I remember very vividly having to live all day on a point of mule soup," said Bir lan to a reporter.

It was simply that the dying mules were killed, just to save them from pershing of starvation, and then they were turned into di thick soup.

"And very glad we were to get it, too!"

The Siege of Ladysmith lasted 118 days, and the troops were rapidly reduced to lib. of horse flesh a day and a few ounces of biscuit and maize meal

If one wanted an egg for tea at cost den and heople paid 25s for 10 cigarettes.

Ten shillings was paid for a tin

of condensed milk and 288 for vegetable nuaKTÓW, K

Altogether,000 civilians and soldiers were bilanquered,

total

the

WHO CARES WHAT TIME

and, consequently, the ships under tag always enjoyed great pa- Pularity in the East Asiatic ports.

A FLAIR FOR THE

CLASSICS A

list.

'The extension to this wing will Provide accommodation for 50 ad- ditional beds in single rooms and small wards. It is expected to be completed by the late spring or the early summer.

The Lord Provost earlier in his address had referred to the fact

of similar gatherings he would ät- tend as Lord Provost. Remarking on the low death-rate in the Infirmary, the Lord Provost then Jocularly pointed out that the or safest place nowadays was in an

Brigade occasionally have to cope. fine sript of the period on beauti-

The Brigade will shortly be fully illuminated pages. The book. Hollywood's Taste For Books that the meeting would be the last equipped with a

of ten which must have taken some breathing apparatus appliances. These will be so distributed over cars to compile, was completed in

(Special Air Mail Service) London that a breathing appara- the last Mayoralty of Richard

London, Mar. 1. tas crew will be available in the Whittington.

Right across the flyleaf in large if not Ilterary. very early stages of any fire.

Hollywood these days is nothing script, iluminated by a floral Following pictures (made scroll, is inscribed just the surmaking) based on works by infimary. name of the Common Clerk Car Shakespeare Dumas, Hugo, Dick-

The Rev R. J. Wedderspoon, of penter. When the books, in its ens, Pirandello, Wells, Somerset Pollokshields East Church, said he oak and brass binding, was ex-Maugham, Galsworthy and Sir thought it should be widely known Sea-voyagers traditionally like to amined the letters of the name James Barrie comes the news that only about a quarter of a 10s tell each other they do not care the mitial C was found to be again in Tolstoy's "Anna Karen- went to hospitals.

were measured, The height of of that Greta Garbo is appear Irish sweepstake ticket money what time of day it is when their anly is plying the high seas be- 17 in that of the remaining letters ina tween one port and another. And the whole width of the Upsetting this theory, however, Is name in.

Thus, John Carpenter, Inscribed the obylogs fact that somebody must care, because the French his sumame baldly on the flyleaf Line has caused to be installed on of this historic volume, and thus It's new super-steamship, the through five centuries the custom Normandie, which will make its for the Town Clerk of the City of maiden voyage from Hayre to New London to sign official notices with York In May, 550 electric clocks of his surname alone has been duly varying sses and types, which carried on. One thing, however, producers, Resurrection" bas ago in Germany, but in England boks will faithfully report the while particularly appropriate to been done three times on the last the picture has beer banned by hour, day or night, from one and his work on the Libra Albus, was occasion with Anna, Sten, who the Censor

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