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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1937.

BELILIOS SCHOOL

PRIZE DAY

Headmistress Reports Successful Year

LADY NORTHCOTE'S PRESENCE

DISCIPLINE

A satisfactory year was reported | Coronation. Miss F. Hughes re- by Mr. W. Kay. Director of Educa- tired and was replaced by Miss tion at the annual prize-day of the Stephen. Bellios Public School held yester- day. Mr. Kay kindly read the Report at the request of the Head- mistress. who was handicapped by a cold.

Lady Northcote, wife of His Ex- cellency the Governor, distributed the awards. She was greeted by a Guard of Honour of Girl Guides at the school entrance, and was presented with a bouquet after" presenting the prizes.

Among those present beside Lady Lady Northcote and Mr.. Kay were Professor L. Forster of the Hong Kong University, Mrs. Kay and the Governor's Private Secretary. Mr. Garrod Treverton.

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In introducing Lady Northcote,

Governor was a very busy man. and his wife was no less A busy lady. Both took a great interest. In the Chinese. and Lady North- cote's presence there was indication of her regard for Chinese women and girls.

The Report mentioned, inter alia, the following significant facts of the School's activities during the past year:-

ATTENDANCE

Maximum Enrolment, 560; Aver- age Attendance (whole school this year) $22.77: Average Attendance (whole school last year). 485.82; Increase over previous year, 37.15.

STAFF

Teachers.-English. 6 including. the Head and visiting, Gymnastic Mistresses Local: "4: Vernacular. 12; 9 Junior and 1 University Trained Mistress.

Throughout the year, there were 1 great many changes in the Staff. Miss Bascombe joined us un September 1935 to replace Mrs. McRobble is Mathematic Mistress. Mrs. Clark. Joined the Staff In January 1937 as supernumerary in January, 1937 and to take over the Headship in February. Miss Tam Furig Hing resigned January 15th. Miss Chan Wing Yu was appointed to replace her on February 22nd. Mrs. Thomson resigned and left on April 2nd for England. Mrs. Mac- Avoy was appointed in her place." Miss D. L. Lopes sailed for England on April 18th as a St. John's Am bulance representative at the

RUFFIANS TORTURE SMALL BOYS

An Example Of Japanese Cruelty |

An example of the cruel treat the major portion of Chapel ment meted out by Japanese sol-Then M-Yelmet started to or diers to innocent civilians and about his cart, and no amount of non-combatants, is contained in persuasion would convince him the story of two little Chinese that he did not need his cart. boys who were among the hordes Carts made for him by the Tom- of refugees who managed to es- mies from empty boxes and tins cape from Chapel during the night-were of no manner of use to him. ing in that area.

He had a perfectly lovely cart in his old home and he wanted it.

The battle between tite Chinese and Japanese for the possession of the Chapel district of Shanghai was in full swing at the time this story оретья. The Chinese were being withdrawn foot by foot and the fight was raging close to the

International Settlement boun

MISSING

Olympic Games TOLL OF THE

May Not Be Held In Tokyo

ROAD Weekly Accidents

Return

In the Colony of Hong Kong in- cluding the Island, Kowloon and

Tokyo, Dec. 18: Hopes of holding the 1940 Olympic Games in Tokyo are fading daily, declares the "Asahi Shimbun," which adds that so many problems are confronting the New Territories during the the organising committee, especial-week ending at 8 a.m. on Saturday, the 11th inst., there were altogether ly the vagueness of the Govern- ment's support, that the committee 51 trac accidents, as the result will not be able to give a definite

of which two persons were killed and 29 persons were injured. guarantee to the Olympic Games Conference, to be held in Catro in March next, that construction of thoe various sites will be started

Most satisfactory throughout the in April.—Reuter, School.

INSPECTION

The School was visited very re- gularly by Mr. Ralston, Inspector of Schools. One remark he made ko our Log Book was "visited School to-day saw most English Classes at work and was very pleased with the atmosphere happiness and application to study." Mr. Law, Inspector of Ver nacular Schools also visited us and inspected the Classes,

HEALTH OF SCHOOL Dr. Fehily began the medica inspection of Entrants on Octobe:

defects

22nd, 1936. When the genera inspection was Anished. specia. cases were attended to. A report was then submitted and attended to, either at the Violet Peel Health Centre OF at the Queen Mary Hospital.

STUDIES

The half-yearly and yearly examinations were held as usual. The results were most satisfactory. One experimental Glass had pool results, but it has another year for the same work and should show a great improvement.

Class 1 san for the University Matriculation Examination. 12 girls passed and 2 got Honours. The Education Board Leaving Certifcate was taken by Class 3 of whom 25 passed out of 28. an excellent result.

ATHLETICS

Both 1 School and at the.. Bonham Road Playground, netbali practice was carried on from Sep- tember to April. May, June and July are too hot for energetic. games. Teachers were present In the play-ground each afternoon and the teams were coached by Miss Swift and Miss Baker. The School was divided into Houses-- Kwangtung. Hopeh, Cheklang and Klangsu.

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Lady Northcote then presented the awards:"

PRIZE LIST Scholarships

Government External Scholars:- So Yi Ha. Li Siù Ha. Ng Mul Wan. Tsang Po Suen. Yu Ngal Ching,

(Continued on page 13).

NOBEL MEDICINE

PRIZE

Of the, persons killed, à Chinese boy, aged 12 years, was knocked and killed by a motor bus while running across the road.'

A Chinese male, aged 47 years, died from injuries received through falling from a moving motor lorry. Of the persons injured, 18 were pedestrians, who were either walk- The Nobel Prize for medicine hasing or running across the road and been awarded to Prot. Albert Szent-Gyorgy!. of Budapest, for his work at Szeged University on the vitamins C and F.

VISCOUNT PORTMAN

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Viscount Portman bas elected a member of the Jockey Club.

Although he has never won an important race, Lord Portman's colours are famillar to racegoers both on

the the fat and over Jumps. Most of his fat racers are trained by P. J. Beary, while his National Hunt horses are the care of E G. Pease.

under

Royal Asiatic Society's Essay Prize

Mr. D. P. Costello, of Trinity College. Cambridge. has been awarded the Rayal Asiatic Society's Universities Essay Prize for 1936-

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The subject of his essay was "The Relations of the Greeks with the East." The other essays sub- mitted were of such a high stan- dard that the council of the society 1s awarding a special second prize to Mr. John Bowman, Glasgow University. for his

"Tamerlane." essay on the alternative subject,

CRICKET

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Diocesan Boys' School v. Head- master's X1.

Played at the Diocesan Boys' School on Wednesday. Drawn.

Beadmaster's XI: 124 (D. J. N. Anderson 17, W. Colledge 16, H. W. Baines 14, J. Fong 14, J. La Young- saye 14 not out, D. Crary 4 foi 45, C. Matthews 3 for 27)..

Diocesan Boys' School: 88 for 7 wickets (F. Lay 30, G. Kew 17, C. B. R. Sargent 5 for 38)....

The chief feature of the match. was the accurate length bowling of D. Crary (21-5454) and E. Fisher (160-37-1) and the ex-

folk, and they were not big enough ceptionally fine fielding of the

to do harm to anyone.

FOUND

Two nights later the sentry sounded the alarm and the troops stood to their posts. The sentry explained that he had heard a post. He had challenged but had scuffling noise just outside the

and

'received - ΠΟ answer.

he thought the circumstances were such as to warrant investigation.

Outside the post was little Mi- Yelmet, harnessed by ropes to a small box-cart. The child had fallen, exhausted, at the foot of the barbed wire fence. Tumbled in a heap on the cart itself was MI-Yat, at Arst, tried to dis-MI-Yat, with his body a mass of suade his little brother but, finally, weals and his lips sewn together announced his intention of going with twine. Worse still, it was Into Chapel and salvaging what found that a good inch of his he could, with especial efforts in tongue was cut off! Įregard to the cart.

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school team. 5 catches were held, 3 of them brilliant, and there were two run-outs,

The ground fielding was so keen

in 2 hours. that the" visitors deored only 124

HOME FOOTBALL

London, Dec. 15.

were struck by vehicles.

Four bus passengers were injured while alighting from moving motor buses.

Three bicycle riders and two private car passengers were injured as the result of collisions between vehicles.

A private car driver was injured when his vehicle run into the hill- side.

through falling from a moving A lorry passenger was injured

motor lorry.

Of the 51 accidenta, 14 were col- isions between vehicles; 27 were collisions between vehicles and pedestrians; and 10 accidents were due to other causes.

Type of Vehicles Involved "No. Private motor-car

Motor lorry

Public motor-car Motor bus

Motor cycle Tram-car

Bicycle. Rickshaw

COUNTY RUGBY

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London, Dec. 15. One match in the County Rugby Championship was played to-day, Middlesex defeating Sussex by 16- 3 at Teddington.

At the White City. the Police beat the Royal Navy comfortably by 17-5.-

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The following are the results of 1938 Edition Now in Course of Preparation

matches played in the F.A. Cup:

Second Bound

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Crewe 2, New Brighton 2.

Second Bound (Replay) Bristol C. 0. Cardif 2. York 1, Clapton O.. 0.

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SOFTBALL

The following will represent the Central British Association v. The Filipino Club at softball on Sun-

dary. Thousands of Chinese wo- That evening, the sentry men and children had died from duty in the look-out post saw a Chapel and had placed themselves small figure creeping under the at last, his story was pleced to- day; commencing at 11 a.m. sharp.

barbed wire. On Inspection, the

under the protection of the British and other authorities in the set. tlement, and among these thou-Agure proved to be Mi-Yat, about

sands were two small boys who

had been orphaned by a Japanese shell which pitched and exploded in their tiny home,

to set forth on his foraging ex-

It was many hours before tiny MI-Yelmet could talk to the inter- preter in the military hospital but.

gether. This is what he told. ".

CAPTIVES

at the C.B.A. ground at King's Park: W. Muir (Capt.), G. Gure- His brother and he had gone, vitch, G. Fowler, 8. MacNider, B. pedition. He had wrapped - during the night, to Chapel, and Fowler, T. 8. D. Whitley, J, J. King. velmet in a blanket and had put they had slept there until day. Gaubert, D. Blake, E. Fowler and

C. Spradbury. him to sleep, hoping to awaken time and had then searched the him in the morning and give him ruins, Anding, amongst other his cart. Mi-Yat was spanked, things, the cart."

ing a bayonet into the ground close to his toes. The lad got frightened and began to cry. whereupon a Japanese soldier had ruined building | struck him down.

not unkindly, and sent to bed, and In the late afternoon they ha he was threatened with "court-started to make their way back ti martial", if he should ever again the Settlement and, when they attempt to leave his place of duty. were passing a

MI-Yat then came" to the rescue

contents at the group of ruffians.

GENERAL FACTOTUMS These two lads, one of seven and one of five years of age, bung around an outpost occupied by British troops and did little odd jobs for the Tommies in return Who can read a boy's mind? Per-containing a group of Japanese for scraps of food. In a day or haps Mi-Yat thought that the soldiers, they were stopped and and, in a fit of temper, lifted a two the soldiers accepted the boys | Tummies were joking or, on the made to go inside. They had to can of hot water and flung its as part of the scheme of things, other hand, he may have been fetch and carry for these troops gave them old shirts and shorts, deeply hurt by the thought that. saw to it that they kept clean, fed after many kindnesses, they had them and installed them as gene-been rough with him, ral factotuma,

Neither Mi-Yat nor Mi-Yelmet The boys seemed to be happy answered at roll call next morn- enough, and every morning, an- ing and, though search was made, swered promptly and smartly to they were still missing when night times of war, people came. In the names given to them by their protectors. The older boy was come and go, and nobody had called M-Yat, and the other was doubts that the two boys were called M-Yelinet.

safe enough even if they had gone After about a week had passed. back into the war zone. The kid the noise of battle receded some- dies had nothing of value to at- what, and the Japanese occupied tract the attentions of marauding

and, beyond the fact that they re- ceived more cuffs than crusts, they settled down until such time as they could escape, or until their captors moved on. So they spent two nights and two days.

ILL-TREATED" During the early part of the second night of their captivity, they were awakened by sounds of revelry. The soldiers were drink Ing and were in a jolly mood.

Mi-Yelmet was seized and made to dance by the expedient of stick-

It seems that a sort of, mock trial was held and the judgment was carried out. MI-Yelmet was harnessed to the cart, and MI-Yat received twenty lashes from a leather belt, besides having a piece of his tongue cut of and his Hips sewn together. The boy was in a state of collapse at the end of his punishment, so he was lifted and Aung Into the cart. Tiny M-Yel- met managed to drag the cart containing its load as far as the British outpost.

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