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FIGHTING IRON POSSESSION

Court Sequel To Ferry Trouble

SMALL FINE IMPOSED

A fighting Iron, comprising seve- ral pieces of Iron, one with a shar- pened end, and linked together by "rings, was exhibited by Det-Sergt. C. H. Goodwin before Mr. Macfad- yen at the Kowloon Polica Court yesterday when Wong Hol-lung. 25, unlicensed medicine hawker, faced a charge of possession of the instrument without a licence. from the Inspector General of Police.

Sergeant Goodwin stated that about 3.40 p.m. on Thursday, de- fendant and his friend, who were both unlicensed medicine hawkers. were passengers ON board the ferry launch Man Chi travelling from Hong Kong to Shamshulpo. About half way across the har bour, defendant's friend entered the wheel house at the stern

where nobody is allowed. He was ordered out by a sailor and an argument arose. On arrival at the wharf the sailor reported to the inspector and when the two men .. came off the ferry they were warned by the Inspector. Deten- dant became argumentative and assumed a fighting attitude. He lifted the fighting fror, which he had in his hand, as if to strike but did not strike. It was taken from him.

Sergt. Goodwin added that both men were medicine hawkets in Canton and Kwongsal but owing to the trouble up there had come to Hong Kong about ten days ago. He had been instructed to ask for 1 small cominal Ona and con- fiscation of the fron.

"It is a dangerous weapon when used for the purpose." he remark- ed.

Defendant was fined two dollars and the iron was ordered to be confiscated.

“NO ROOM FOR COMPROMISE"

MR. RUNCIMAN ON NAVAL STRENGTH

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London, July 18 Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, addressing his constituents at a National Govern- ment demonstration at Bosahan, Cornwall, last evening, said that on the question of naval strength

there $15 no room for com. promise. We must be either weak or strong in naval strength, If weak we must fall bark. If strong we should uphold all that the British Empire "had stood for in the past, and stood for now. in the welfare of its people through out the world.

"If the Government can be cer- tain of the cooperation of all classes of the community," he

•HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1936.

YUNNAN EXPEDITION BACK

31 YEARS' WORK FOR SEAMEN

After Two-Year Stay

INVESTIGATING CONDITIONS IN CHINA'S SECOND LARGEST RICH BORDER PROVINCE

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RETIREMENT OF MR. A. W. J. DAVIES

London, July 4.

GIRL OF 16 CLAIMS A CLAN

CHIEFTAINSHIP

A MEDIAEVAL COURT SITS IN EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, July 20 Mr. A. W. J. Davies retires to-year-old girl to bear the arms of An interesting claim by a 16- day from the Admiralty after 10 years' service as Clerk in Charge. Greenwich Hospital Department He had previoudly held the pos!

Highland chief came before Sir Francis J. Grant, the Lord Lyon King of Arms in Scotland, at the Arst sitting of his court for twenty

tion of Accountant of Greenwich rears in Parliament House, Edin

Hospital for over 21 years.

burgh, to-day.

NEED FOR HELPING MERCHANT NAVY

"INSEPARABLE PART OF DEFENCE"

London, July 18.

- A. resolution expressing thank- fulness at the King's escape from injury in the incident which oc

curred at the

Strictly speaking there is now no Greenwich Hospital, since the in- Louise Macleap, of Ardgour, and The petitioner is Miss Catriona stitution was closed as such if she succeeds she will be 1870. Under an Act of 1885 the Best girl chieftain in Highland the Nanking, (by Mall).

to be the Admiralty was empowered to grant history. Yunnan, considered

Her claim is to the most wealthy province in miner Pensions in lieu of food and ac- undifferenced and principal

commodation to als, will be properly developed in

such of the in-armorial bearings" matriculated preferred, and in 1869 in 1909 in Lyon Register by her the non-distant future as a result mates as of a wealth of information recent-

another Act made such pensionis rather. "who was the sixteenth ly brought back by the. Yunnan remained unoccupied until 1873. The petitioner's, mother

compulsory. The hospital then aird and chieftain of Ardgour. I Expedition of the Academia Sinica when the buildings were

Concluding a two-year investiga- over for their present purposes as clyde, and the Ardgour estates in taken sister of the present Lord Inver tour, the expedition hus

the Royal Naval College. collected sizeable quantity of

Argyllshire, which extend to 40,000 specimens of ores and fossils and has seen the funds of the Depart-will fall to be conveyed to her on During his service Mr. Davies acres and are held by trustees, numerous Alms depleting the cus-ment increase considerably, and it attaining 21 years toms and manners of the native may surprise many to know that

or previous tribes in China's second largest and it has now to deal with a capital one of its richest provinces.

Miss Maclean's claim is of addi- of over £4,000,000. The income is tional taterest in that she submits Noted as the "ethnological gardevoted entire to naval charitable evidence, that in Scottish heraldry den" of China, a large proportion purposes, the greater part being the helmet crest and motto of the of its population being aboriginal appropriated to benefits in the armorial bearings

with the Mao and Lolo pre- form of pensions and grants to allowed to ladies where such ladies are officially dominating-the date gathered by seamen and marines and their have succeeded to the chieftaincy the party will prove invaluable as widows and children. Included in of the house. reference materials for the study this expenditure is the cost of run- of geological and anthropological ning the new Royal Hospital conditions in that frontier pro- School. which was moved vince"

from Greenwich to Holbrook, Suffolk, in 1933, and has a complement of 860 boys, who are the sons of seamen and marines,

RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS The expedition was sent in the autumn of 1934 at the request of the Yunnan Provincial Govern ment for the purpose of making a

PENSIONS TO WIDOWS During the first years of the

study of the racial characteristics War the Department organized in Yunnan. For the convenience and carried out the work of pay- of investigation it was divided into ing the pensions to widows and three sections: geology, anthro- allowances to children of seamen pology and ethnology.

and marines who lost their lives.

marriage...

Miss Maclean's claim is opposed by her kinsman, Lieutenant Com mander Henry Hugh Maclean, of Windhouer, Bursledon, Hampshire. as heir male, who maintains that the chieftainship passes. at all events in the first place, to heirs male in preference to the heiress of the line. Some time ago Com- the clan association to become mander Maclean was invited by

chieftain.

Constitution Hill on Thursday was passed by the Bri- tish Empire League at their annual meeting held at the British Em-

yesterday. pire Club, St. James's Square, S.W

At the suggestion of Loid Stradbroke, who presided, it was agreed to forward 'n copy of the resolution to his Majesty,

resolution, which was carried un

Mr. S. Amery, M.P., moved a

animously, calling attention to the

ing reduced and the shipping of. fact that British shipping was be- other countries increased; and their tonnage, largely State-aided, was steadily encroaching upon the ser- vices of the Empire, both internal and external.

The resolution urged the Gov ernment, in consultation and co- operation with the Dominions, by revision of trade agreements with countries from which Empire.coun-

ported, and by other appropriate tries imported more than they ex-

measures, to check this dangerous movement.

The senior counsel for the peti- tioner was Mr. Thomas Innes, of Mr. Amery said commercial ship- Upon a request of the Minis- Later this work was taken over by Herald, assisted by Mr. J. F. Gor-

Learney, advocate, the Albany Ping was one of the greatest of try of Foreign Affairs the Geology the Ministry of Pensioris. For his don

our national industries. Item- and Ethnology Sections accom-services in

Thomson, advocate. The ployed 150,000 men and if ship- this connection Mr.respondent was represented by building were included, about 250.- panied the Sino-British Joint Davies awarded the M.BE in 1918. Mr. Hector McKechnle, advocate, "000 men. Shipping normally pre- Boundary Commission to the un- For some years after the War he who claimed in his pleas-in-law vided about £100,000.000 a year or demarcated section of the Yun- was appointed, with the approval that the petition should be dis more to our invisible exports, which nan-Burma frontier to make an

of the Admiralty, as Steward of missed as incompetent, is being were necessary if we were to bring Investigation of the geographic and the Manor Court at Alston, in signed and the petitioner repre- Into this country the raw materials

Cumberland, one of the Greenwich sented by a herald who, being a 2nd foodstuffs needed. Hospital estates. This Court was judicial officer of the Lyon Court. a survival of the feudal "system, was not entitled to practise there- but has since, with many other in, at any rate in contentious principal mines in 'Yunnan, in-manortal incidents. been extingut matters, and that the Lyon Court cloding the tin mines in Kochin, shed consequent on the passing of had no jurisdiction to determine the sliver mines in Panhung. Lu- the Law of Property Act, 1922.

questions of chieftainship or of fang. Hsunning. Kengma, Hsimeng,

precedence, such as were raised and the gold mines in Shihkacchin,

racial conditions there.

Headed by Mr. Meng Hsien-min, the Geology Section made a thorough investigation of the

For many years Mr. Davies has devoted the greater part of his DEPOSITS STILL FOUND

spare time to helping other naval charities. In 1926 he was associat- According to investigation, the ed with the late Captain Sir annual output of tin in Kochlu is Lionel Wells, RN., in opening the more than 7,000 tons valued at ap RN, and R.M. Warrant Officers' proximately $25,000,000. The whole Benevolent Fund, and two years mining area measures no less than later he was specially thanked by 9,000,000 sq. kilo. After six months the Admiralty for having placed feld work, the section bad the fund on a sound Anancial several detailed maps. basis. He has served as a trustee showing the geological formation and also honorary secretary and and distribution of the mines and treasurer of the fund. had collected at least two tons of specimens of ores. Attention was also given to the mining methods, transportation, water supply in the mines and the living conditions of the miners.

drawn

Mr. McKechnie dealt at some length with the objections to the representation of the petitioner by a member of "the Lyon Court.

that the

Mr. Gordon Thomson mentioned petitioner was not claiming to be head of the Clan Maclean as a whole but chief-

own particular

tainess of her branch of the clan.

The hearing was adjourned."

In recognition of his services Mr. DUCHESS OF YORK

Davies has been presented with a gold cigarette case at a luncheon at which Rear-Adm. Sir Thomas Lyne, Vice-Admiral Gordon Camp beli. V.C. and several other

officers were present. Mr. Davies is also a member of the committee; and honorary secretary and trea-

OPENS PLAYING FIELDS

NINE-ACRE GROUND THAT COST £525,000

Rich deposits were stilt round sald, "we can achieve whunt we in the old silver mines in Maolung. all desire-peace abroad. peace at Hanning, Kengma, Hsimeng, and home, and an increasingly strong Wunal. It was said that during surer of the Admiral of the Fleet industrial position The main the Ching, Dynasty the mining

Sir Frederick Richards Memorial principle on which our National tax collected from each of these Fund, which helps commissioned Government was formed remains mines amounted to as much as

officers of the Navy and Marines

London, July 23. true to this day. We have had to several tens of thousand taels an-

and their widows and children. Fe Thousands of children gave a face two great special misfortunes. nually. Operations of the mines, was awarded the imperial Service tumultuous welcome to the Du- "The League of Nations has falled however, were later suspended Order in 1934 and the Jubilee chess of York yesterday when she' to carry out the great burden owing to local disturbances. To Medal in 1935. He is succeeded as opened Corum's fields and the upon its shoulders, which was too increase the sliver reserve of China Clerk in Charge of Greenwich Hos- Harmsworth playground, on the much for its strength..

exploitation of these mines should pital by Mr. C. H. Boan hitherto site of the old Foundling Hospital be resumed, the section pointed accountant of the Department... out.

hen we were anxious about the position in the Mediterranean, one of the keys not only to the

British Dominions but to Egypt

The gold mints In Maiklang, the

copper mines in Ningtal, and the DEAN DIES AT ALTAR

salt mines in Shihksochin were also thoroughly investigated by the section.

Under

CHARACTERISTICS

the leadership of Mr.

In-Communicant's Arms

London, July 22

In Gullford Street, London,

The ceremony, marked the cul- mination of nearly 10 years of effort to save the famous site in the centre of one of the most, po- pulous districts in London. The playgrounds are now preserved for all time for children, for whom the need for space for recreation is paramount.

„NO TIME WASTED

and India There were rumours and assertions that the British Fleet had become debilitated and too old for ita work, but we have shown by our actions, that the command of the seas must not be lost to the British Empire. We Ling Chun-sheng the Ethnology The Very Rev. Dr. Joseph Bre- The Court having gone into must have not only a strong Navy Section studied the dialects, eus-wer Jobberns, Dean of the Bre-half-mourning, the Duchess wore but a strong Air Force. It is not toms and manners, physical condi- chla Diocese in the Episcopal a black-flowered white gik dress, use inviting and encouraging our tions and other racial characteris Church in Scotland, died at the al- a dark grey fox fur, and white young men to join our Services tics, of various tribes in Yunnan, tar in his Church of St. Mary Mag- shoes,... Her white hat had an and then leave them without pro-including the Lolo, Pula, Muki, dalene, Dundee, to-day, while of edging of black. per weapons and adequate equip-Lungfer. Shajen, Tulso, Tai, Yao, ficiating at a special Communion ment and munitions.

Miao. Lawa, Lahu, Palaung, Kac-service to commemorate the name "I am glad to know that a great hin, Liso, and Akha. The party saint of the church. He was 69. number of young men are coming recorded 12 dialects of these tribes He had just given Communion to forward for the air service. If we which had never been known to Mr. Peter Anderson, the only mem- attend to these matters in Ад the outside world adequate measure we shall make also collected more than 300 bone when the server saw him lean for before. They ber of the congregation present,

· up our teeway in, every way in which we have lost it. We must 3.000 photos and 5.000 feet of mo-

specimens, and took more than ward on the altar. at all costs maintain our Imperial tion pictures of the customs and

Anderson went to his assistance, and the Dean, died in his strength. "You must judge us, not

manners of these tribes. by what you think of our action,

These within 3 minute... so much as by the results of that tion to be held shortly.

will be displayed at an exhibi- action, which, is evident in the most remarkable return of indus- trial prosperity not only in the iron and steel, industry, but also in shipbuilding, the engineering trades, and in agriculture.".

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His body was draped with a cloak and left in front of the altar,

-The Anthropology Section, head- ed by Mr. Tao Yun-kwet studied 600 miners in Kochiu, the Tai and Melkfang Rivers, and the Mohsien the Wont in Chienshul Stithping, in the Kikiang River valley and along the Yuanklang, and Central News Agencu

A few minutes after the opening ceremony. hundreds of children were playing on the swings and

castles, and while they played the see-saws, were paddling in the artificial lakes and building zand Duchess strolled around and smil- ingly watched them.

The Foundling site of fine actes the hands of commerc or builders was in a danger of passing into

when the Foundling children were moved out into the country In 1928, and appeals were launched to save it

£325,000.

The total cost of the ground was

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