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THE SERVICES

(By Air Mail. London, July 17).

ROYAL NAVY

LAUNCH OF THE BITTERN

The launch of the escort vessel Bittern, postponed from last month, took place on July 14 from the shipyard of J Samuel! White: → and Co.. Limited Cowes. The naming ceremony was performed by Lady Jean Macdonald

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Eight ships of this new type. originally called convoy sloops, are built or authorized to be built, of which the Bittern" is the third. Earlier ships were the Enchantress. fitted as Admiralty yacht, and the Stork, atted for surveying duties. The Egret and Heron, of the 1930 programme were ordered in March Tast from Messrs. White and Messrs. Denny and Brothers: and In the 1937 programme there are three, the Pelican. Black Swan.

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and Flamingo. The Pelican, which be used for surveying has

ordered been.

from Messrs. Thornycroft. The Bittern is the sixth ship to bear this name in the Royal Navy since 1798.

AFRICA STATION CRUISE

The escort vessel Bridgewater, the Captain H. J. Egerton. on Africa Station, returned to Simons- town on July 20 from a cruise to Lorenco Marques. The following programme has been approved for 'her. next cruise:-Leave Simons-

town, August 10; Capetown, August 10-16 Walvis Bay, August 19-24: Luderitz, August. '25-27; and return to Simonstown. August 30. PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY'S

VISIT

Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, M.P. Parliamentary Becretary to the Admiralty. accompanied by the Commander-in-Chier. Home Fleet Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse), valled the battleships Ramilles and Revenge in Torbay on July 13. He saw the large number of boys who form part of the complement

of these slups, which are concern- ed at present very largely with the training at sea of new personnel for the Royal Navy. The boys paraded in divisions on the quarter

and. attached to List II of London Division.

Mr. P. C. Barkia, entered as Pro- by. Surga. Lt. (seny. June 30), and attached to "List I of East Scottish Division.

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JUDGE TO MARRY WIDOW

OF NAVAL OFFICER The engagement as announced on July 12 between Arthur Burna- by Howes, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Bingapore, and Marjorie, widow of Engineer Rear admiral W. Cory Sanders, of Bex- all-on-Sea.

Mr. Justice Howes, who is "58, was educated at Dulwich College and became articled to and a fel- low of the Chartered Surveyors' Institution and was subsequently hon examiner in law of that in- stitution. He was called to the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

CHOLERA

Preventive Measures Taken

After an absence of, almost six years, the sudden appearance of cholera in the Colony has led to arrangements for preventive mea-

sures-on

the part of the local medical authorities who are, it is understood, co-operating with the Kwangtung authorities in the matter.

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Within the last 10 days, 11 cases of cholers, all of which proved fatal. have ben reported to HK medical authorities. Three of these occurred within the last 24 hours of record..

MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1937.

Jesus And The

Children: The

Mui Tsai Petition

(Continued from Page 3)

VITAL HUMAN PROBLEM. Now it is not my purpose in a short address like this to go into the pros and cons of the Mu! Teal question because that has been done very adequately for months, nay years past. by scores of res- ponsible people.

the great Christian principles at My purpose is to remind you of stake: behind this matter and to ask you to consider it not in the cold, calculating spirit of the Law but as a vital human problem that Dr. J. T. Smalley, Acting Direc-is a matter of life and death for tor of Medical Services, when in thousands of children in terviewed on Saturday said that Colony.

this there was a yet little fear of the disease developing into an epide-.

But the following facts are, I Bar (Middle Temple) in 1908.

mic in the Colony as investi-

think, significant:- He became a magistrate in the gations by the Medical Depart- Uganda Protectorate in 1917, and ment have disclosed that the dis acted there as judge on several ease, in the majority of the re- occasions and in 1921 as attorney-ported cases., has been imported general. He became # Pulsne from outside the Judge of the Gold Coast 1 1924

Colony. The fatalities did not originate in the and acted as chief justice in 1927 Colony. and 1928.

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THE ARMY

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

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Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. Gale, M.C. R.A.S.C.. has beer promoted to colonel on joining the War Office

star. Lieutenant-Colonel LG. Robinson, RAS.C., has also been promoted to 'colonel, and brevet-colonelcies have been given to Lieutenant-Colonels" ·E.. A. Woods, A. F., S. Napier, and P. J. A. Montague, M.C., of the Royal Artillery.

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The following appointments have been made:-

1. The existing law is already on the side of the reformers. At this very moment the law requires the registration and payment of all Mu! Taal. But it is one thing' to pass a law and another thing to get it carried into effect. The Preventive measures have, how-

Law is Ineffective and it is the ever, been undertaken -with the purpose of the Petition to see that co-operation of the Kwangtungit no longer remains 50. Lady medical authorities.

"Protectors" are to be at liberty, to visit all transferred children when- ever and wherever they please. Some have said that this will "a- terfere with the liberty of the sub- ject." But for the sake of such a cause most humane people would be prepared to forgo a good deal of liberty!

Doctors board each train leay- ing Canton and remain aboard the train until it reaches the border at Shumchum,

where they are relleved by medical officers from

Hong Kong

With the co-operation of the Chinese authorities river steamers ment medical officers to prevent Majority and Minority Reports of are being supplied with govern- 2. Since the publication of the

principally by wated, being im-year (despite, the fact that the the disease, which 1. conveyed the Commission sent out last ported by sea.

Majority report was antagonistic LAUNCH IN QUARANTINE to any big step forward) public A steam launch belonging to opinion both at home and to a the Standard Oil Company, which lesser extent to this Colony, has arrived here from Kongmoon last been moving in favour of the pro- Tuesday has been quarantined for gressive recommendations of the several days as the result of one Minority Report. This is an ex-

Lieutenant- moved to the Kowloon Hospital

suffering from cholera.

The launch will be released to day provided no further occur on the vessel

cases

FROM THE GAZETTE

pite the difficulties of inspection and registration emphasised by the Majority Report there is an Increasing number of people who feel that "Where there's a will there's a way." The "way" has been shown in the Petition which suggests the registration of all transferred children and not only Mui Tsal. At the moment the law that all Mu Tsaf" should be regis- tered la easily evaded by calling such girls "adopted daughters," nieces or prospective daughters- in-law.

D.S.O.. to

Lleutenant-Colonel J. Macready, command the Hythe wing of the Small Arms School; Major A. L Elsworthy. M.B.E.. to be DA.Q.M.G., British Military of the Chinese stokers being re-cellent sign for it means that des- Mission in Egypt; Colonel T. C. Greenwood, R.A. to be Director of Artillery in India; Malor R. H. Stevens, LA, to be deck.

D.AA.G. of the Revision Section at NAVAL. LIVING CONDITIONS Bimia: Colonel A. F. Chater to be The Admiralty issued Its answers | A.Q.M.G., "Northern Command. to a further 260 requests, on July | India; « Major W. A. M. Stawell, 17 for changes in the living and ¦ M.C., RE, to be AA.G. for Person- working conditions in the navy."nel in India; and Major F. T. Bird- making a total of 852 put forward wood, L.A., to be D.AQ.M.G. In the in the last four months by the reconstruction work in Quetta”“” lower deck. The percentage of re- quests granted in "full is small.

Some refusals are based on the fact that a change would have to be carried out in the army and Air Force also, and so cannot be grunted by the Admiralty alone. Some are ruled out as being be- yond the scope of the arrangement

under which the requests are put forward. Some are refused be cause they would cost the tax- payer too much, and some because' they would mean extra expense to the men themselves,

The requests cover a remarkable range-from the quality of the buttons on white uniforms to the transmission of private telegrams to and from ships, from the poal- tion of refrigerators in ships to the quality of the cleaning materials ZIPP-FASTENERS FOR SAILORS

MEDALS

EFFICIENCY

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FREE SCHOOL

PRIZE GIVING

The Free School, sponsored by 3 In a statement on the sub-

the Chinese Muslim Cultural and ject leaued by our Bishop, he says, prize-day on Saturday when Mr. Fraternal Association held its "of my Chinese friends under fifty Shat Shui-kin, headmaster, pre- the most able and the most disinsented & very satisfactory report. His Excellency the Officer Ad-terested are all in favour of the The prizes were distributed by Mr.

"Petition". All change is not pro gress but this fact is very signifi- present were Malyi Hajee, Syed A. el Arculll, and among those cant. It means that the youngerNoor Shah, Mulvi Ma, Messrs. I. generation of Chinese want to see

Haroon, S. A R. Bux, M. H.. Jono, the system abolished.

and M. U. Razack.

HE. the Officer Administering the Government has authorised ministering the Government has the award of the Efficiency Medal appointed Mr. W. J. Carrie to act to the following members of the as Superintendent of the Botanical Volunteer Defence Corps:

and Forestry Department in addi- Piper George Nisbet,

tion to his other duties, during the Sergeant James Alexander Land-absence on sick leave of Mr. G. B.

Twemlow.

say.

Sergeant Claude Siceman Ccom. Private Alfred Leonard Eastman. Lance-Corporal, Ernest Joseph James Spradbery.

Sergeant John George Hooper. Company Quartermaster ·Ber- geant Henry James Millington, M.M.

Sergeant Archibald Nissim. Private James Choa.

"'SURPRISE” LANDING AT DEEP WATER BAY

Most of the points, dealt with in: this last batch of replies are mat- ters of uniform. An experiment is to be made in fitting the seaman's jumper with a zipp fastener. A request for a complete change in the style and shape of the men's trousers 18 refused as "the Ad- miralty do not intend to depart Volunteer Defence Corps were call- Various units of the Hong Kong from the characteristic and time-ed out unexpectedly on Saturday honoured dress of the seaman." right in order to repel a "surprise". Nor will 'men be allowed to wear landing at Deep Water Bay by sou-westers when on shore in rain enemy troops on 'board H.M.S. as it is "not a sufficiently, amart Thracian. article of clothing for use ashore." An ounce of butter a day is to be added to the ration in future. margarine having been formerly

It is understood that the Naval Volunteer force were an board the "Thracian:"

The Volunteer units concerned,

His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has appointed the Hon Mr. Sydney Caine to be a Justice of the Peace.

NEW NURSING SISTERS It is notified that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Gov. ernment, under instructions re

for the ceived from the Secretary of State

Colonies, has

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CEMETERY EXTENSION

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ELEMENT OF EXPLOITATION 4. The modern state, as the Anti-Mai Tsai Bociety's Memoran- many point to protect its citizens dum points out, intervenes at from exploitation by other citizens and groupe of citizens. The Mul Tsal system,, whatever merits are claimed for it, possesses a large element of exploitation, which is often hidden under the cloak of charity. The Mu Tsai exists largely because she is a cheap form of labour and has

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Mr. Arculit said:

your Association, the Chinese Mus

It is a privilege to be here for

um Cultural and Fraternal Asso- clation, is do'ng noble work, and form is a matter for pride. to be associated with it in any

REGISTRY WEDDING

ANNOUNCEMENT

The forthcoming

wedding

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Miss Margaret Katherine Murray,ganised trade union to protect her announced between Mr. Leonardus Miss Daisy Elizabeth Minnie Wil- interests. The plea of charity and Stark, of Room No. 807, Gloucester son, and Miss Patricia Elizabeth of sympathy for poor parents is Hotel, and Miss Nina Pavlovna Keam to be Nursing Sisters.

zenuine in some cases but on the Nicolokala, of No. 321 Avenue whole, many families are only | Fetain,' Shanghai. prepared to buy a Mut Tsal for what they can get out of her It is notified that His Excellency rather than for charity's sake. the Governor-in-Council has au- The test of the genuineness of the a sense better off than they would thorised as a place to be used as plea of charity lies in the rigorous be in their own poor homes. Many a Chinese cemetery, and to form enforcement of the local regula- Chinese would resent the sugges- an extension to the existing Chi-ton for the payment of the Multion very strongly that they II)- nese cemetery known as the Chai Tsal such as the Petition desires; | treated their Mul" Tsai. We must Wan Cemetery, the piece of land

When one feels strongly about a remember that. Yet even this

uated between Chai Wan and Tytam Gap.

issued and no seaman will have it is understood, were the various containing about 16.79 acres, sit matter it is easy to be unfair and doesn't weaken the

any excuse for being late for all battleships are to be fitted with an extra eight clocks and all cruisers with five.

DAS APPOINTMENTS The following appointments were made by the Admiralty on July

12:

Car-H. T. Armstrong, to Cock chafer (Aug. 30).

PayT Car P. J. Hiland, to "Argus (Aug, 14).

machine-gun units, part of whose duties consists of defence "of the colony's beaches from landings from the sea, ment

The "battle, which commenced in the early evening, was over at mid-night.

FUNERAL OF A.C.

CHISHOLM-ELLANS

NEW BRIDGE Tenders are being invited for the construction of a bridge: 220 feet, long at Tai Lâm Chung, NT diverting the road and stream course and demolishing the existing bridge, together with all necessary contingent work.

case. When I have no desire to be that. For the slaves were released in Ame-, that reason I want to say this. rica there was at first much suf- Firstly, there are many good tering but does anyone seriously people in the Colony who will not contend that that fact justined sign the Petition and who really the retention of the system? think it better to leave the matter. If a child is worth employing it for the time being where it is is worth paying and it is worth re- They do so because they think: gistering. that taking the matter by and I appeal then, this morning to large, the children will beneft in every man and woman over 10 the long run if their owners are years of age to sign this Petition not irritated. They also hesitate which has as its two main objects to "interfere" with old-estabilähed the compulsory registration of all Tempy Instr. Lt.-G. Steel, B.Sc., Chisholm-Ellans, of Royal Alr.

Chinese customs, and are afraid of | transferred children and their to Glorious (July 16).

possible "graft If the scheme of periodic visitation by an approved Force Base Kal Tak who was down immediately, was found to visitation is carried through. They European and Chinese woman found dead under tragic circum- be dead. stances in his quarter on Friday The funeral was attended by a difficulties of the task.

And in so doing you will play also see the amenity and the Protector. " evening took place on Saturday at detachment of the Royal Air But none of the dimculties your part in removing a stain on the Protestant Cemetery

provided. the firing ready insurmountable if our main the good name of Britain and 34-

ong the orcers position is conceded

sist the porgressive members of Commanderplant dis par

the Chinese community them-- Officer Commande

selves to make effective a law And secondly, it is of course true which already exists to save and O. R. Fulljames, entered as his colleagues was found hanging lace. Adjutant and others There that a very large number of Mui protect the children of this Co-

haplain (seny. June 29),In his quarters and although cut were many wreaths.

Taal are treated kindly and are in lons.

LtCdr. R. F. Jessel, to Erebus (July-28),

VOLUNTEER RESERVE

Burgn, Lt, R. P. Prewer, M.RCS, LECE,, to Curacoa (July 12))))

PayT. Lt. K. Gilmour, to Greenwich (July 18)..

The funeral of Second Class Aircraftsman Bernard George

Stationed in Hong Kong for squad, Burgn: Lt.Cdr.-D. ATmrie, about nine months. Chrisholm-

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