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HONG KONG, MARCH 15, 1937.

EXPLOITING

HUMANITY

For the many characteristice for which the Orient ly far- famed, there is one at least to which the qualifying famed" cannot reasonably be applied. We refer to the exploitation of humanity in the form of child beggars, particularly in Hong Kong.

SAFETY IN AIR RAIDS

Advice By Experts

A raids and bow to lighten their effects were the subiect of two. talks at the week-end. states the "Bulletià,” (Glasgow).. In Glasgow Brigadier-General Hill stressed the necessity for cellars equipped with Independent light- ing and water supplies. In New- castle Mr. Harcourt Johnstone spoke of the ballon barrage as a powerful deterrent to aerial at tackers..

Basements and cellars with in- dependent water supplies, Eghting, and wireless will provide the best during air raids. protection for the civil population

by Hill, J.

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If Gossip We Must

(BY "PRUDENCE") Cheerful strains of music from the Band of The Royal Welch Fusiliers greeted race-goers at Happy Valley on Saturday." After

wet week it was great luck to have sunshine and firm-going, but there was a nip in the air and those who chose furs were wise.

There was a big crowd, and one of the first people I noticed was Lady MacGregor in a long slim coat of light brown collared with golden. fox, Mr. Mason, trim, a plack with a smart little short coat and Mrs. Compton in a charming Httle black suit.

That view, which is held by ex- perts, was expressed in Glasgow

Brigadier-General

Mrs. A. B. Purves was watching of the Home Office from the Stand, wearing navy- Air Raid Precautions, Department. blue with attractive large flat but- who addressed a meeting of the tons of vivid red and Mrs. Bernard Western Branch of the Sanitary Brown looked very slender in a Inspectors' Association of Scotland. long coat of

Wireless equipment in the cel-Raworth had

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dark blue. Mrs.

most unusual lars, he said, would serve the dou- colour-scheme, a coat and skirt of with a brown able purpose of giving amusement sage-green word and information as to changes mvest and hat. conditions above ground.

Even after residence of extended period in the Colony, it is impossible to be entirely callous to this particularly shabby phase of life in Hong Kong. It

"France won't go above ground," he said, "Germany is building cel lars as fast as she can, and Italy has just lasured a new law stating that all new houses must have cellars.

Among the activities of the Air Rald Precautions Department was the passive protection of the civil

is fair to state that one cannot walk unmolested by mendicunts ADVERTISEMENTS. in any of the main streets of the

city.

"flat begging flourishes in every part of the world is well population of the country; known, and that, as a "profes-active protection was a matter for sion" it bas been practised for the Defence Services. centuries, yet even vice is not to be excused even on the score of antiquity.

THE MANUFACTURERS THE HONGKONG FIRE

LIFE INSURANCE CO.

During my temporary absence on leave from the 20th March to the end of September, 1937, the charge of this office will be under the management of the Resident Secretary, Mr. W. Sharp,

E.J.R. MITCHELL, Manager for South China. 5115

ALICE MEMORIAL AND

AFFILIATED HOSPITALS.

The Anmal Meeting of the Alice Memorial" and Affiliated Hospitals will be held, on Tues- day, March 16th, 1937 at 5.15 p.m. in the Board Room of the General Chamber of Commerce.

R.M. ALDERTON, Secretary,

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

5117

Dralt Programmes and Entry Extra Forms for the Second Race Meeting to be held on SATURDAY, 27th and MON. DAY, 29th MARCH, 1937 (weather permitting) may be ob tained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Buliding: the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.

Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 18th March,

1937.

By Order,.

C. R. BROWN; ..

Secretary,

5116

HONG KONG & WHAMPOA

DOCK CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Offices of the Com. pany 2, Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on Monday, 22nd March, 1937, at Noon for consideration of the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1936. The Share Register and Trans. ter Books will be closed from. 12th. to 22nd March, 1937, both days Inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

E: COCK, Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, ist March, 1937.:

5079

INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

Store Sand

the

An in-

Owners or ordinary houses could not afford reinforced concrete roofs to keep out bombs, and it was recomended that people with an attic or top flat should clear it of all inflammable material and store sand on the floor. cendiary bomb would sink into the "We may never have gas at all sand and burn itself out..

HI. "Fire and splinters from exploding bombs are the greatest danger."

Everyone will a scrap of The Sixty-eighth Ordinary humanity in his heart must feel General Meeting of Shareholders aggrieved and shocked at the will be held at the Offices of the enormous and increasing number undersigned on Thursday, the of beggars who literally infest 25th March, 1937, at Noon, for the main thoroughfares. Whilst the purpose of receiving the Re-the exploitation of physical de-ald General port of the General Managers, formities is objectionable, yet together with a statement of the most appalling and unfor- Accounts for the year ended the giveable of inhumanities is the prevailing practice of prostituting very little children to the degrad- ing business" of mendacity. A glance at these wretched babies

31st December, 1936,

The Share Register and Trans ier Books will be closed from the 11th to the 25th March, 1937, both days inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 5th March, 1937.

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is sufficient to convince one that be spared, no pains should officially and unofficially, rescue them from the horrora of afife which must inevitably resolve itself into nothing more or less than a grovelling exis

tence.

The Importance of the balloon

barrage system in deferice against night bombing raids was urged by Mr. Harcourt Johnstone, Chief Liberal Whip in Parliament, speak ing at the annual meeting of the

Northern Liberal Federation at Newcastle.

"The Government

announced

ately I have reason to believe that the Government is constructing a

Mrs. Harold Sheldon looked de lightful in black with a stole of silver fox (she, alas, is off to Eng- soon) Mrs. Donald and quite Black was there, only just back from the honeymoon, and looking most charming in one of those saucer-hats with sweet small flowers in front. Another recent bride who has only just returned was Mrs. Ronale Clark, in a per- suasive dress of violet with a small page-boy hat. Mrs. McAvoy wore a clever touch of green and yellow. with a black costume, Mrs. Ashton was delightfully dressed in two shades of mauve, and was with Mrs. Stafford Smith who was most becomingly, furred in brown. AN UNUSUAL DRESS

Mrs. Croucher had a most un- with

Miss Dawn Digby, a talented pupil of Miss Daisy O'Keefe.

bad. a party and Mr. Costello, Mr. Scranton, Mr. A. N. Braude, Mr. Maj. Burt-Marshall, Lt Tolian, Comd: Turner and many others. also brought parties.

One of the first people I noticed was Mrs. Robin Gordon in an ex- quisite

Kown of flame-coloured usual dress of otter-brown the smallest possible studs of gold chiffon and ostrich feather. Mrs. and a beit with a gold buckle and Taggart was in poppy red with, the a cap of brown Astrakhan, and most attractive shoulder decora- Mrs. Cassidy had a pretty dress of tions in soft dark green and Mrs. blue, finished with a pleated frill. Morse in gauzy black. and Mrs. Miss Huntingford looked de- Cavanagh-Mainwaring, very gay lightfully fresh and sweet in & in sapphire blue. light gray sult and white blouse

non

Mrs. Feltham and a delightful. and was with her fance Mr. dress of white with a ribbon sash Alabaster. Mrs. Locke wore black of geranium-red which suited her with Anger length coat of golden hair and flawless com- leopard. and Mrs. Warren had a plerion. Mrs. Hugh-Jones was most swagger coat of green overcheck elegant in powder-blue.. and Mrs. an enchanting to months ago that the balloon bar-suiting and a brown dress. Mrs. Harriman had

rage system was to be adopted for Burton in black with silver fox dress of lavender satin with revers

caught my eye. Mrs. O. J. Shan- of flashing silver sequins. London," he said, "but unfortun-

was in hazel-brown, Mrs. THE CABARET TURN Archbutt (very slim in a black type of balloon which will rise coat and skirt) and Mrs. F. C. only to 10,000 fect or less, and that Hall in most becoming "magpie" though Lord Swinton spoke in the black and white.' House of Lords last November of deliveries before Christmas, in fact only three balloons have been de- livered up to date, and that it will the jaundiced be many months (possibly more hideousness of the Inquisition than a year) before much progress scem but mild. It would be eplendid if those who pride themselves on social conscious- ness would concentrate upon the obliteration of that murky pas- age, in our official record headed The Child Beggar.

It is understood that the tor- tures to which these beggars are submitted during their period of

·HONG KONG, SWATOW AND | intensive "training" are such as

AMOY FREIGHT

to make even

CONFERENCE

FOREIGN & CHINESE SHIPPERS

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Notice is hereby.given that as from 1st. APRIL, 1937, rates of freight from Hong Kong to Swatow and Amoy will be in. creased 20 per cent over current

rates.

The Tariff rates on Tranship. ment Cargo from United King. dom, Europe, Canada and U.S.A. will be increased by 20 per cent on and after the 1st June, 1937.

Full details of revised tariff rates are obtaļnable on enquiry at the offices of the undersigned,'

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. CHINA MERCHANTS S.N.

DOUGLAS

Discreditable and disgusting, the presence of the child beggar in Hong Kong is unworthy in 60 widely famed a centre under the jurisdiction of the British flag.

SCOUTS' "VULGAR”

SONG-BOOK

Association's Retorts.

is made.

Fire Brigade's Task

Rosalie Alabaster wore dainty terra-cotta with a coat of brown and a matching hat, Ina Dunnett had a charming long dark coat and Betty Faire the sweetest cos- tume of pale gray frieze. Mrs. Weldon struck a note of gay colour in cherry red with a cap- tivating cap of fur. THE ROOF GARDEN

There were lots of big parties and many lovely dresses to be on the Roof Garden of the seen Hong Kong Hotel on Saturday

"I the balloon barrage is suf- ficiently high, it is probable that raids will never be attempted, for the known presence of these bar rage cables, stretched across the sky at no great distance apart, twisting ana turning in the air, night. will deter the raiders.

The Peruvian Consul, Signor "One touch of a cable on a wing Manuel Rivera Inglesias, had a or propeller will bring the aero-table for fourteen, Mr. Harriman plane crashing to the ground and

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air force; however brave or highly disciplined, can be expect- ed to face such a threat.

"There is great urgency for Lon- don, which is such an easy mark from the air, and for other great eities of England to be protected by efficient balloon barrages."

Members of the London Firé Brigade have undergone anti-gas training at the Government's anti- gas school in Gloucestershire. Twenty-six have

been trained, and, these are instructing the whole of the 2000 officers, and men of the brigade.

Songs

Miss Meyer was there in becom- ing peony-red, and Mrs. Heck in pale flowered chiffon. and Mrs. Chan, very smart in black with sleeves of brilliant sequins. Phyllis Churton had a picture frock of dark green glace, Joan Baker was graceful in black velvet, and was that Diana Dodwell in a charm- ing dress of black with a spray of velvet rases? And will somebody please tell me the name of the lovely girl in primrose yellow with a black Hower?

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By midnight the thronged for people had got wind of the fact that a new and specta- cular cabaret turn was to be pre- sented for the first time.

People came crowding up from The "Gripps to see Cedric and Arlinda, who came, and saw, and'

BISHOP PRAISES DIVORCE BILL

"Honest Attempt To

Arrest Drift"

A demand for the immediate withdrawal of a Boy Scout song- book, on the ground that the songs CO., LTD. are "worse than vulgar," is made STEAMSHIP by the "Church Times, states the "Daily Telegraph."

Mr. A. P. Herbert's Divorce Bill CO., LTD.

The book is "Songs from Gang-

is described by the Bishop of Co- JARDINE, MATHESON & Shows," published by the Boy' Scouts' Association, The "Church

ventry, Dr. Mervyn Haigh, as an CO., LTD.

Times" describes it an a grave tion, told "The Daily Telegraph" honest attempt to arrest the drift

that ÓSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. error in judgment,” and adda,

the

had been which is taking place under cover Hong Kong, 8th March, 1937.

"Its sponsors expect it to be used heard by thousands of people who of the present law towards divorce by Boy Scout troops-by boys in had attended the "Gang Shows" by mutual consent." Writing in their early teens. And yet it at the Scala Theatre during the the "Coventry Diocesan Gazette shows a taste that seems more fit past three or four years, and no the Bishop states:

"Mr. Herbert's bill has under- ted to the second-class-music-hall word of criticism had been heard of the last generation.

up to now.

gone considerable revision in Com- "No doubt we shall take note ofmittee, and some of its more ob- what has been sald and, if necesvious weaknesses and perilous pra- sary, action will be taken by an posals have already been removed. appropriate committee."

"One criticism frequently made Mr. C. Dymoke Green,, secretary of the bill, that it rests on no of the Boy Scouts Association "definite principle, seems to me at said: "The book includes extract any rate, singularly futile, On from concerts which have attract what principle could the bill con- ed thousands. I have no doubt ceivably rest four-square, with any the association, which watches all hope of survival, excepting the the interests of the Scout move nethermost principle that divorce "Lord Hampton, Chier Commis- ment will consider the matter infought simply to be a matter of

mutual consent? sioner of the Boy Scouts' Associa view of the criticism.".

LOCAL MAPS

Peak District,

Kowloon,

Victoria,

New Territories.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.

"The sheer vulgarity that per- meates this song-book makes a poor accompaniment to the pro- fessions of earnest idealium usually associated with Scouts.

Potent, influences in the Boout movement have often created dif- aculties for Churchmen to co operate. The publication of this book must make Church co-opera- tion more difficult."

2.

"It is, as I believe, informed by loyalty to several high principles Bills, like spiders, may often seem to rest on thin air when in fact they are suspended from above,”

Two Main Questions

conquered-taking the

audience

by storm with their whirlwind.

dances.

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ODD GLIMPSES

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{EY “PEEPING TON" The Irish Ball produced the most dazzling array of good look- ing humanity, and the amount of real shamrock to be seen was 28- tonishing. So many well-known faces in such a variety of lovely guises glimpsed from day to day in all sorts of unexpected places,

I was particularly smitten by the all white effect worn by Miss Mignon McLay one evening re- cently, and at the Irish Ball there were a great many dazzling white dresses so effective against the smart service uniforms of the male species. Mrs. Forbes, Mrs. Singer, Mrs. Bryden, and Mrs. Stuart-Smith were striking exam- ples.

Mrs. Prentls looked marvellous in black velvet, and everybody loved Mrs. McAvoy's winged' exfect.

I caught a glimpse at The King sisters

in deliciously Victorian their 'off-the-shoulder' dresses one night, and the Dodwell sisters" were gloriously 1937 in exquisitely cut and very individual gowna. That attractive visitor to the colony Mika Haynes was seen in a lovely old rose lace gown, and Mrs. Owen-Hughes wore pale blue with marked success I thought. STRIKING COIFFURES

Coiffures

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varied evad striking these days. Gone is the dull fashion of uniform head- pieces. Miss Kittah Butterfield- effects that rolled back style somehow reminiscent of Edwar dian days and is very easy on the eye. Mrs. Weldon wears a similar style and is completely captivat ing. Flowers are most seductive, nestling in feminine curls, and Mrs. Abbott was seen with a tiny cap effect made of red and white blossomas-a delightful inish to à most striking red and white satin

gown.

Friday was a great night for cocktail parties. There were at least four that Peeping Tom knew all about. Its astonishing that there can be such galaxies of attractive people in so many different places at once... The Commander popular

*Jackie' Broomt was surrounded by. friends as usual" the other evening, but we were all sorry that Mrs. Broome has already departed for Home. Lt. Clarke was with his attractive wife Peggy, and Lt. Mill was the centre of considerable at- tention owing to his new Beaver" style of grooming which tin- doubtedly becomes him well.

Mrs. Robin Cordon is, still in Hong Kong-praised be, and al- ways wears interesting clothes. She appeared at a cocktail party the other day in ravishing black velvet with the new tunic effect. and the highest of 'cone' hats to match. Miss Peggy, Humphreys was looking particularly pleasing that same evening, and so was Mrs. Cavanagh-Mainwaring in a positively thrilling high hat with an intriguing vel as well."

Panama Hat On A King's Statue

Daring College Spire"

Climb Recalled

A panama hat worn at a jaunty angle over one eye was placed. on the statue of King Edward VIL in Aberdeen by a practical Joker, states the Bulletin. Glasgow.

The police saw it in the mor- ning, and informed Corporation workmen, who had it removed.

Aberdeen la now becoming ac- customed to hoaxes. Not long ago. some one fastened a yo-yo to the. hand of the huge statue of Wil Dr. Haigh points out that a lous Ham Wallace. The spire of Maris- series of resciutions concerning chat College has been climbed marriages is being considered by twice. On the first occasion a top- the Convocations of Canterbury hatted skeleton was put on it, and and York, and holds that the re- suits must be co-ordinated before on the second a Belisha beacon.. the public can know what the mind which is still there. of either Convocation really is. Two main questions are raised: A

"(1) Whether the Church of to the Sacraments any of its ment

has remarried, after England ought to declare that bers who every one of its members who re- divorce under the present nyila marries after divorce under the Law. present English law is doing some This question rafses, by impli thing wrong and inconsistent with cation, a further question whether membership of the Church.

the Church of England eight to (2) Whether the Church of try to obtain freedom under the England ought to refuse to admit Law so to act.”