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MAN BEATEN TO DEATH

Mob Rule In Territories

BODY FOUND IN

HAY STACK

Alleged to have attempted to steal two chickens by force from an aged widow, à man, who appeared to be an opium addiet, was beaten to death by a mob of villagers In the New Territories who had taken the law into their own` hands...

Shortly after about 30 villagers. "who had heard the alarm raised by the aged widow, armed them- selves with poles and sticks and set out to look for the robber.

His body was found early yester, woman to the ground and escaped day hidden in a haystack about with the spoils eight feet away from the main road near the Ho Tung Bridge. The bruises on his body and the fact that his hands were ties be- 'hind his back with rope roused the suspicions of the police and in- vestigations were set afoot.

It was disclosed in a police report that about 3 a.m. yesterday an un- known man broke into the hut of a widow, named Lo Eluat tu Liu Village, and attempted to steal two chickens, it was alleged. "Lo was awakened from her sleep by the intruder and called out "chief.”

Deceased, who was in possession. of a small chopper forced the

SOCIALISTS

SCOLDED FOR

SNOBBERY

MR. ORMSBY.GORE'S ATTACK

Socialist Members were scolded for snobbery in the House of Com mona recently. Repelled by a mention of class," Mr. Ormsby- Gore, Colonial Secretary, loosed his feelings upon them with audden vehemence.

He had, in reply to a question, reminded the House of the names of the seven members of the Colonial Advisory Committee who, by a coincidence, are all Knights

Why, asked Mr. Sorensen, So- cialist back-bencher, were they all chosen from one class?

Mr. Ormsby-Gore (heir of Lord' Karlech and son-in-law of the Marquess of Balisbury), starting back as if someone had tried to hit him, rapped out"The great thing in this House is always to get rid of the beastly idea of class. There is no such thing."

He paused for a moment

and

Sorensen had taken his meaning.

then, as if not quite sure that Mr.

he underlined his protest:

The annual conference of the British Empire Prees Union was held at a moment favourable to its discussions when leading statesmen from all parts of the

"It is a disgusting snobbery to Empire were gathered together

use that expression, It is really in London after the Coronation,

ridiculous for the Honourable and when the newspapers were giving special prominence to In-Gentleman to suggest that he and perial affairs.

of

The Union has an important part to play in promoting that co-operation between the press various parts of the Empire which is an essential condition of suc- cessful co-operation between the! governments.

I are of a different class. All this idea of a class war and a class bias simply makes me disgusted."

A

POTPOURRI OF

WIT AND WISDOM

By Thomas Jay, The Famous

"Punch" Writer

Lords and the MC.C. celebrate their 150th anniversary this year. It is said that after the festivities members will be carefully dusted and placed back in position agam.

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The Empire, as a union of free peoples, is a practical possibility only because the peoples behind the Government are conscious of common interests; and the preas gives expression to and helps to "It is said that a new prison"now" sustain that community of feel- being erected is to have special Fing It is realized that it can bathrooms. That is one way to be made more complete and make criminals come clean. efhcient by plans actively con- certed between their representa tives in Britain and the Domi- nions.

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The moving anger writes, and having writ, moves on to the next place in the crossword puzzle.

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A thorough search was then carried out in the village, and the | mob eventually found deceased

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hidden in a hay-stack.

The man had no chance of escape and was dragged from his biding and beaten to death. His hands were tied behind his back and his body was left in the hay stack where it was discovered and removed to the Kowloon mortuary by the police.

WOMEN IN

SOCIETY AND

POLITICS

Canton English

Forum Lecture]

An interesting lecture was de uvered by Mr. K. B. Valdya, Editor- in-Chief of the "Canton Daily Sun" at the Canton English Form Society, in the local Y.M.C. build- ing on Saturday on the "Women's Part in Social and Political Pro- gress of a Country."

Mr. Valdya said that in the field of politics, woman can perform the best service by inculcating among the juvenile population the spirit of right nationalism and un- alloyed patriotism from the early age. Instead of being M.P's or Diplomats or Administrators. · Al- though the Queens of the British history have achieved greatest triumphs...this may again perhaps be due to man's generosity and a sense of chivalry towards female rulers..

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As diplomats women cannot be accepted they are perhaps garrulous and the calmness of

DRAGON FISH AT judgment cannot be expected from

THE ZOO

Caught By Tunny Angler In Diving Suit

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Four dragons have arrived at the London Zoo.

Not the thunderous, fre-eating dragons of folklore, but peaceful. from the East inoffensive "fish Coast of

Nevertheless, their arrival, complete with scarlet and grey waving wisps of fins, has created a stir in the Aquarium.

Africa.

Most disturbed as he watched the newcomers inspecting their tank, was the Zoo's veteran Dra- gon Fish, who has been in solitary possession for more than a year. Not only had the four, who are close friends after their trying voyage in a tank disturbed his peace, but they had also taken possession of his favourite rock.

Glowering. he paced up" and down the far end of the pool like a clubman who has had his chair tekat by a new member. The intruders, secure in their numbers, gazed at him..placidly.

KEEPER'S SYMPATHY "It's not only the fact that he has to share his tank which is an noying him,” said his keeper with sympathy, "but I think he is afraid that he will have to share his food as well of course, he won't. but he doesn't know that, and, he eats 12 shrimps or minnows a day, "They will pal up in time. I hope, as we are very glad to get the new fish. Colonel E. T. Peel, the well-known tunny angler, caught them by putting on a diving sült and chasing them in

10 feet of water/

Next door the Aquarium's two characters, Bertram, the Bpotted Puffer Fish, who swells to the size of a football when angry, and the

Trigger Fish, from Madeira, also looked annoyed. Bertram, half inflated, peered gloomily from a hole in a rock; the Trigger Fish had hooked himself by his trigger to a projecting spur. a sure sign that he was put out.

"You see, they know the dragons

them. The heart rather than head rules a woman, and for the same reason they cannot be good administrators.

It is thus not a question of superiority of one over the other,

It is a mere division of labour be- tween the two wheels of society.

Dian and woman, and they are each of them'supreme in their own spheres,

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RUXTON'S TRIAL "EARL BALDWIN

REVIEWED

Clue Of "Cyclops Eye"

TWO THEORIES

"The Trial of Buck Ruxton," edited by R. H. Blundell and. Professor G. Haswell. Hodge, 10s. 6d. (Notable British Trials series.)

If the Ruxton crime had been created by a detective novelist, un- doubtedly he would have made as the central clue to its solution the cyclops eye--a peculiar form of maldevelopment arising from a "monstrous birth”—which was dis- covered among the remains of the two victimis found at Moffat.

Yet the Arst comprehensive_ra-: cord and discussion of Ruxton's trial, made available, shows that no defnite conclusion was reached following the introduction of this most unusual feature into the case and that, contrary to all the rules of imaginative Action,

SLD TOUR

EMPIRE"

To Give "Counsel ́ ́And Advice”

The destro öl overseas people that Earl Baldwin might make an Empire tour and perhaps give counsel and advice where needed, was referred to by Mr. Walter Elliot, Secretary for Scotland, when he spoke at the Founder's Day celebrations of the Banar Law College, Ashridge recently.

Mr. Elliot, deputising for Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Co- crdination of Defence, who was prevented from attending owing to Imperial Conference work, said no man was more respected in the United Kingdom and outside it than Lord Baldwin. Overseas people realised what a great asset he had been to the Empire and. they wished he would travel to see

the Judge appeared rather to con-them, meet Empire problems face sider it an accidental Anding with- to face, and, perhaps, give counsel and advice where it might, be cut significance-a view not shared

needed. ,4 by the editors of the book.

Remarking that Lord Baldwin was pace at Ashridge, Mr. Elliot added, "We are not at the end of these men yet. We will have more, we will breed and educate others."

They devote special attention to the implications which might have arisen from the discovery. It was not possible, from the eye alone. they stafe, to say whether it was,

of human or of animal origin.*" Professor Brash, the anatomist, they point out, stated that the

preservation of the eye was di ferent from that of the other re-

mains, but the matter was not taken any further.

MUSEUM POSSIBILITY

"Had this been done,”, it is adó-- ed, "the witness might have point- ed out that the preservation was, in fact, better than that of the other soft tissues, and that the eye presented all the appearances of a museum preparation.

CALCUTTA -

SOLICITOR

SUSPENDED From this a curious possibility

APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL

An appeal is to be made to the Privy Council by Captain Allan E. Ker, V.C., & Calcutta solicitor, who was suspended from practising as an attorney by the Calcutta High Court for a period of 18 months.

The case was heard by Justices Costello. Panckridge and Edgley, and arose from previous litigation concerning two companies for

acises

AIRPORT

GOLD THEFT

Decision In

Claim Against

Imperial Airways

Mr. Justice Porter in the King's Bench Division, gave his consider Could it have beened judgment on preliminary points shown that be (Ruxton) had on the action arising out of the possessed such a specimen, and. theft of gold from Croydon air- that it was no longer in his house, port in 'May, 1935.

it might have been suggested that F. M. Philippson and Company, Ruxton, In desperation and to pre-of Brussels, 'claimed damages from vent the remains from declaring Imperial Airways for breach of themselves, and being obviously contract or duty in the carriage... unable to purchase formalin in of bullion by air. any quantity at such a time, had sprinkled the preservative from a specimen on to the remaine, and had accidently discarded the specimen itself.

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The points for decision, which are on the defence put forward, and the Juge's answers were. (1)

On the other hand, it is argued. could it have been proved that the eye was human, and had its pre- servation been less perfect, it is (2) conceivable that the defence might have suggested that Mary Roger- son had been killed as the result

whom Captain Ker acted as al- torney. A Mr. F. L. Harcourt was sentenced to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment for falsification of accounts. A rule has now been Issued on the application of Har- court calling on Captain Ker to show cause why his name should not be removed from the rolls of

This detailed description and attorneys, or alternatively suspend-analysis of the Rurton case estab- ed from practice. Harcourt con- ducted his own case.

Justice Panckridge in his judg- ment said, while none of Har court's charges of professional mis- conduct were sumclent for the order asked for, an amadvit aled by Captain Ker in order to avoid facing an examination under the India Companies Act, "contained false statements made with the

deliberate object of deceiving the Court. In their Lordships opinion the Court should be able to rely n statements of attorneys. Capt. Ker should be suspended for 18

months.

""Crooners," says Mr. Edward have arrived," said the keeper, BRITAIN'S TRADE

Dun, musical director of Durban, "and being old inhabitanta here "are hapless, helpless ninnies," of some two years standing, they You get the idea? The gentleman don't like it." is hinting that there is something about crooners he does not exactly

The Empire Press Union first came into being in 1903. Since its nrst meeting it has held four qulagnennial conferences; but at the last meeting in South Africa No. 1, Torres Building, in two years ago it was found that like.. the Dependency of Kowloon there was so much that could

FILOMENO MARIA GRACA OZOR10, late of

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A parvenu la a man who got rich

in the Colony of Hong Kong, usefully be done that additional, so quickly he cannot swing a golf Medical Practitioner, de-

annual, meetings were arranged.club without first spitting on his densed.

From the first the basis of com-hands.

mon action was already in exis-

JAPANESE- CONSULAR

CHANGES

Special cloths for cleaning grease NOTICE IS HEREBY tence, in the public opinion of from the hands have been patent-left here on Sunday evening for GIVEN THAT the Court has, by the various countries concerned, ed. They should be useful for virtue of the provisions of Section possession of common language, zarage mechanics when there are

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of a certain operation by one, who, to conceal his crime had then murdered Mrs. Ruxton.

shes its claim to be included among, the most remarkable of all crimes.

...

Some of the facts of the trial show how determined the Crown authorities were to secure Ruxton's conviction. The hearings in the police court, at the Assizes, and in the Court of Criminal Appeal oc- cupled 24 full days. At the Assizes the there were 108 witnesses for -prosecution, whereas only-Ruxton- himself was called for the defence.

There were 213 exhibita, nine of which comprised 124 photographs; and six elaborate medical reports on the Moffat remains,

MARRIED NAVAL

OFFICERS

M.P. Questions First Lord

In House of Commons Mr: Hall-

Whether the contract of car- riage in the consignent note ́ ́was subject to the Carriage

by Air Act, 1932--No.

If so, whether the consign-- ment note satiated the re- quirements of the Convention. of Warsaw, of October, 1929- --No,"

(3) Wether the carriage was “in- ternational" and, if so, whe- ther the consignment note covered the requirements of the general conditions of car- riage of godos. No.

(4) Whether the claim was bar- red by reason of the action. not having been started with- in six months of the loss.----

Yes.

(5) Whether there was, › within the meaning of the Conven- tion or of the conditions, a special declaration of value and payment made, and if 80, what effect this had in law No.

Mr. Justice Porter said that the Convention of Warsaw came into force on February 13, 1933. Great Britain ratified on the next day but" Belgium did not become a part at the date of the theft. The Convention appiled only to "inter- national carriage" where the car dage was between the territories of one contracting party and an- other:

The carriage was therefore not "international," and the action ac- cordingly failed, with costs.

58 of The Probate Ordinance traditions, habits and sentiments. no steering wheels to wipe their liner. Yasukuni Maru for Japan merchandise by 1,363,426 or 228 through the Commanders-in-Chier Headmaster of Bt. Nichols's Gramm

"The first essential of an 1897, made an Order Limiting the time to the 23rd day of July, effective press is to disseminate 1937, for creditors and others to

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hands on.

Both imports and exports during Apel were substantially higher to Caine (C, Dorsets asked the First value than a year ago, but some Lord of the Admiralty whether the of this Increase may be attributed inquiry into the advisability of to the fact that last year Easter Recording naval officers the same Canton, July 11.

fell in. April, whereas this year privileges with regard to marriage Concluding 17-month service in

the whole of the holiday fell in allowance as Army and Air Force

CHURCH NEWS Canton, Mr. Sadaji Yashitake.

March. Exports of United King officers was yet complete.vt Acting Japanese Consal in Canton, dom goods increased by £9,599,887

Mr. Dual-Cooper replied-Repre=""

New Bishop Of Guiana or 28.7 per cent., compared with sentative officers in the Fleet of Hong Kong to board the NYK. April, 1936, exports of tuported an ranks have been consulted

The Rev. Alan John Knight, where he will stay for a month per cent, and imports by £16,207, on all stations. Dednite proposals

mar School (commonly known se prior to taking over his new post zilor 24.3 per cent. Exports of have been formulated and are now Adisadel), Cape Court, Gold Coast, in Tsingtao in the same capacity.

Recently Mr. Yoshitake was sent imported merchandise were the under active consideration, but: 1 West Africa, has been appointed.

Bishop of Guların, by Consul General Toyoichi Nakahighest since June, 1930.

am afraid that. I am not "Inla Compared with March, 1937. position to say when a decision He will be conmocrat Seiichiro Yamazaki in, determining the facts of the Flycshi Aoyama 2 per cent,; exporte of United

were slightly ter hope to make known the dee ston case. Since then he had been un-Kingdom goods

lower a decrease of 2442,592, or on this subject before the Summer well, but is now recovered.

Despite the North China situa-1 per cent, and exports of im- Recess tion, Japanese nationals in Canton ported merchandise increased by Mr. Duff Cooper-I am afraid I go about their work as usual. Most £557,647 or 8.3 per cent.

cannot make a promise of them live in Bhameen, and only

g a few reside in the city

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send in their claims against the This is the greatest of all the toward the public, and in pro-mura to Bwatow to assist Consul imports increased by £179,019 or will be reached an a

above estate to the undersigned.

Dated the 3rd day of July

· 1937.

reliable information about big events as quickly as possible, to quote the Christian Science Monitor.

Paul's Cathedral, with Bishop of Antigua an Assistant: Bishop of

and LAB The new Bishop, MA curacy at St. Highway, from 1923 from 1928 hs BEI priest in Acers

The Lord

accurately and quickly. that theirs is a position of trust

services which the press is portion as the public can be capable

Mr. Hall-Caine--Does the Minis- of rendering to give made to feel that the journalist asks and offers a square deal in collecting and distributing news, to that extent the press becomes A source of knowledge and in- But the Empire Press Union spiration on which the public wishes also to encourage the will rely. Public opinion being sense of responsibility in journa favourable, co-operation toward Mr. Yoshitake will be succeeded lism. In proportion as news this end should have notable consul, in Pauthen, Shantung who by Mr. Bhinichi Hayasaki, vice- puper proprietors encourage their effect in correcting errors, and will arrive in Canton on July, 20 5408 journalistic employees to feel promoting sound opinion, ... Union New

LEO D'ALMADA & CO., Solicitors for the Executrix of the Will of the above. named deceased, David House, first floor, Hong Kong.

The visible adverse balance was *£32,569,380 for April, 1937, com-

£105,253,679-2 and sented the Rector of O

pared with €27,814,432 for April, 1937. For the four months ended £8 18930, and 232,504,016 for March, pared with April, 1917, the visible, adverse perk of 1935 and balance was "£121.825,581 com