HIGH PRIEST OF PARSEES.
DR. W. N. DHALLA NOW IN HONGKONG.
HONOURED IN U.S.
An interesting personality, in the person of Dr. M. N. Dhalls, ar rived in the Colony by the s., Tay Maru and is at present staying at the Peninsula Hotel. Dr. Dhalla leaves here on Sunday.
GROSS CRUELTY TO GIRL.
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documents, but found none.
He
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, -- THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930.
REFUSE WHICH WAS
REFUSED.¦·
COMPLAINT AGAINST THE SANITARY BOARD.
AMAZING CHURCH
DISPUTE.
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and he had no power to appoint
Bishop v. Chaplain.
Was
the
pasa
PLANE RUNS AWAY FROM PILOT.
SOARS ALOFT BUT LANDS IN FLAMES.
An amazing incident occurred at an Italian airport, near Rome, when a machine took off by itself, circled, and lauded again, only to
The aeroplane was about to
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ascertained that defendant liv. An Investigation into a com-without the consent of the Council, ed in a small
room or bunk.plaint that the Sanitary Depart-constitutionally given. flight of five or six steps ment refused to accept certain re- leading to it from the level of the fuse on the garbage carts was sug- first floor. Whatever space there gested when two shop fokis appear-] The chairman said in his opinion destroy itself. was in the room was almosted before Mr. Whyte Smith at the the whole thing was a result of a entirely used up by a bed. When Kowloon Magistracy this morning misapprehension as to what was leave the airport when the pilot, the door was open, other people on on a charge of depositing rubbish meant when the Government with-finding that he had forgotten the floor could, observe what was an a vacant piece of ground in drew its appointment of chaplain something, got out of the cockpit. going on in the room.
Shantung Street.
to the Cathedral. When the Gov- Sub-Inspector Chester Woods it-ernment made the appointment. it into the air, and, after a flight of Immediately the machine rose Dastur Dr. M. N. Dhalla, M.A..
For Hours at a Stretch. timated that the rubbish consisted was done by the Colonial Office, and about 300 feet, circled over the Ph.D., Litt.D., is the High Priest
sub neighbouring barracks. Mrs. Sam Fook, a tenant of the of the pulp of sugar cane which had the appointee's name of the Parsees, Karachi, India. The
It then returned to its starting Parsees number about a hundred floor, told the Court that she could passed through the various pro-mitted to the Bishop, probably
cesses in the manufacture of sugar after discussion. Then
1 thousand
point, keeping all the time a per- people throughout the not say whether the child was a
and the master of the shop had priest came, and wa accepted. fect poise and balance until world. They are the descendents mui-tsai or an adopted daughter of complained to the Police that refuse The Government decided to of the Ancient Persians who ruled the defendant. She could say, on of that nature was not allowed to those powers
guest of wind suddenly brought it over. To whom? in Persia up to the seventh century. the other hand, that whenever de-be pinced on the garbage carts. To the trustees of the Cathedral. to the ground, where it burst into
flames. The religion that the Parsees fol- fendant assaulted the child, she The officer mentioned that that was The powers were granted to the low is called Zoroastrianism after would keep at
it for hours at a not the first complaint he had re-trustees and the trustees were
Looping Robot. the the name of its founder prophet, stretch. The child would at otherceived concerning the refusal of superseded by
Parochial Zoroastor, who flourised about 1000 times be immersed in a jar the Sanitary Department to accept Council.
Six months ago there was re- Certain Parsers
correspondence B.C., The
highly water, then put on the roof to dry, certain kinds of refuse,
took vealed to the world the existence educated people, the average liter-that being calculated to frighten His Worship remarked that he place between the Bishop.and the of a robot of the air that could She was not allowed to cry, should think that the carts would Archbishop. It had special re-ly a plane for hundreds of miles acy of both their male and female her. population being about 95 per cent. that was to say, that whenever have to collect all manner of rub-ference to a successor to the Ar- without human aid and never. de- chdeacon. The Bishop was urgent viate an inch from the true course. They are energetic and enterprising she cried, she was beaten until she bish.
All by itself-as though for a people. They were
At the suggestion of the pro-in his request that he should have: the pioneers became silent. of cotton mill industry in Bombuy "The child was beaten with the secuting officer his Worship re-more power in the Cathedral. It stupendous, mechanical joke
the defendants for in-was well known that the Bishop out of its own mechanical soul, as in the middle of the last century. regularity of meals," asserted wit-manded Their commercial connexion withness. A piece of firewood, of the quiries to be made from the Sani-and the chaplain often had arguit were that same robat has loop- China began with the advent of the heavy kind imported from Singa-tary Department British in the Far East.
pre, was the instrument used for these chastisements.
are
Dr. Dhala, who has published several boks in Gujarati and Eng- lish, was invited by the Columbia University to take part in the cele hration of the 175th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter by King George II in 1961 to King's College of New York. The date of the 175th anniversary was 21st October of the last year.
The University, on this occasion, conferred honorary degrees upon those of its alumni who had brought credit upon it within
acts
of
PASSENGER WITH A
CARGO.
BOATWOMAN'S BREACH OF HER LICENCE.
ments as to who was "top dog." ed the loop with a machine sup- The Bishop thought he should have posedly incapable of being "loop- some say in the Cathedral, as there ed" by the most daring and skilled were no Deans out East.
of human pilots.
The new "Pilot's Assister," as this wonderful gadget. is called. was being tested on a Super- marine Napier flying boat.
Left Alone.
Meeting's Decision. Proposing that the incoming committee should be recommended to consider the nomination of the Rev. J. V. Westlake to the Chap lainey of St. Andrew's Cathedral,
The human pilot left the cock- which was vacant in view of the pleaded guilty when charged at the retiring Council's nomination, ing boat suddenly locped the loop The mistress of a passenger boat meeting's decision not to support pit for a few minutes, and the fly- the Marine Court this morning be: Mr. Brown said that he had been and then flew on a level keel. fore Commdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O.. very much moved by a petition The "Pilot's Assister" is, brief- R.N., with committing a breach of he had received, signed by 41 pery, a gyroscope linked up with the her licence by carrying cargo In-suns, many of them bed-ridden old rudders und elevators of an aero- stead of passengers.
ladies. It struck him as a great plane. It flies the plane in
is in-
Suspended by Armis,
Speaking of other chastisement, witness related how, on several occasions, she had seen the child being tied up and sus- pended, with tapes passed under her arms, from the bunk, being left) dangling in that position for hours at a stretch. "I did not interfere, because it was not my business and also because the girl belong the lasted to the defendant as an adopted twenty-five years. Dr. Dhalla was daughter." given the degrees of Doctor of: Witness, replying to Mr. But- Sergeant McRobbie, who pro- compliment to Mr. Westlake, and straight line and is so sensitive Letters. His latest book publish-ters, admitted that she was consecuted, informed his Worship that the amount of work he had done. that the tiniest deviation ed by the Oxford University Press strained to report the matter to the defendant was carrying a cargo The motion was carried.
stantly and automatically cor- (American Branch, New York), is the police at about 3 o'clock Inst of rice when he stopped her boat On the motion of Mr. Chamier, rected.] entitled "Our Perfecting World," | Friday.
and arrested her. At that time, sho seconded by Mr. Brown, it with the subtitle, "Zarathustra's Defendant, replying to. this was also carrying a passenger. decided to recommend the Way of Life."
Asked what she had to say, de-Council to revise the rules with a' fendant, stated that she was usually view to ascertaining whether they engaged by a number of Chinese required to be amended. to take them out to ships lying at various buoys in the harbour. In Ho Chiu-lee, another tenant of this case, a passenger hired her the same floor, declared that the beat but he took along the cargo girl was struck with a piece of of rice Sgt. McRobbie saw on board. firewood sometimes for a whole "very rarely carry cargo," she day and late into the night.
Her added. cries were stifled with cloth stuff- "You are more rarely caught!" ed into her mouth. She would be retorted his Worship.
A fine of $10 with the alternative hung up against the wall and beaten the whole time she was of 10 days' hard labour was im-notify that unlighted surveying suspended thus,
for posed. several hours. On one occasion
Dr. Dhalla and Mrs. Dhalla, who accompanies him, have travelled in Persia and Mesopotamia, an ac- count of which is published by Mrs.; Dhalla in Gujarati. They are now on their way home to Karachi.
INDIA POSITION REVIEWED.
(Continued from Page 1 ex-Speaker of the Assembly, Me. Patel, when he addressed a huge open air meeting. He appealed to his hearers to pursue a social boy- cott of officials, not to pay land revenue and to "fight the Govern- ment on all fronts."-- Reuter,
Salt Raid Planned.
Surat, May 7. Civil resisters have definitely decided to march to Dharasana to carry out a raid on the salt depot. This was planned by Gandhi be
fore his arrest.-Renter.
All Quiet in Calcutta.
Caletta, May 7. Howrah, together with other suburbs of Calcutta has now re- sumed a normal appearance. The shops and markets are apen DA usual.--Reutri,
Mr. Patel Welcomed at Bombay.
Bombay, May 7. The Speaker has resigned, per- haps to find a pension and a peerage in His Majesty's jail," was the jocular remark of the ex- Speaker, Mr. Patel, when address- ing a crowd on his arrival from Calcutta, amid scenes of great en- thusiasm,
Mr. Patel urged non-violence in carrying out the programme which will be framed at a meeting of the National Congress working com- mittee at Ahmedabad on May 12.
Mr. Patel told Reuter's repre- sentative that he considered a boy. cott of British goods in general, and all foreign cloth in particular, was the most important section of the programme.--Reuter,
Improved Bombay Outlook.
Bombay, May 7.
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evidence, suid that she beat the girl because of her habit of drink- ing dirty water.
Stifled With Gag.
sometimes
she was thus cruelly used. the CLASH AT TSINGTAO punishment lasting from noon to three o'clock in the afternoon.
Defendant:Witness bears 21 grudge against me.
Witness: No. I get no money out of this.
COLLIERY.
CHINESE AND JAPANESE IN OPPOSITION,
Another woman said she was on a visit from the country to her According to Chinese telegrams niece when she saw the defendant from Shanghai, Chinese pickets,
Witness assisted by Communists followers: strike the little girl. attempted to rescue her, but de-caused considerable annoyance to fendant prevented her from the Japanese residents of Tsingtao
un May 3 when an doing. On Saturday last, she saw
made by 500 Chinese on Japanese employed at a coal mine.
defendant tie the girl up and hang her up, whilst she also beat her with rattan cane all over the body. She had also beaten her after tying her to the water basin stand, "When the little girl asked her to give her food, she pushed the chopsticks into her month and also cut her on the body with a pair of scissors.
attack
Was
The exact cause of the attack, which followed some sort of dis- agreement between the Chinese and Japanese, is not known, but it is stated that 500 rioters sur- rounded the mine and seized fond which was intended for the work- ers inside the mine enclosures.
The disturbance was not quelled Defendant said that she beat the little girl because she had until late on Tuesday afternoon. stolen same water.
She did not but no very serious clash between clip her with scissors, neither did the two parties developed,
her she push chop-sticks into
Defendant was not on mouth. good terms with the previous wit
ness,
The little girl then Kave evidence, but denied that the de- fendant had beaten her. She blamed the first witness for this and said she had done it yesterday.
Mr. Butters pointed out that it was useless to go on, as the gil was obviously in the Po Leung Kuk at that time.
Frights Necessary.
Defendant, from the dock, sakl: "I did not hit her in the face.
I did tie her up, but then went nway and she freed herself, and received the bruises on her chin by falling down. The hump at the
British troops have been with-back of her head was caused by
drawn from the mill area and else where.
This is regarded as indicating has improved. that the situation The cotton mills generally are working with fall complementa.— Reuter.
Japanese Concern.
Osaka, May 7. The Japanese are showing in- creasing concern over the nowa from India, which is being given prominence by the newspapers.
The silk concerns of Yokohama are worried because of the can- gellation of orders,
Indian residents in Kobe appear to be greatly exercised over the arrest of Gandhi. Their offices and shops were closed for a day,
this evening.--Router.
her falling down the staircase. enned her with a one-foot eane. Children should be frightened if
they are to be properly brought up. I told her that when she wanted water she was to tell me. but she did not obey nic and stole some water. I told her that if she did not do what I had told her I would cut her lips with a pair of scissors. It was simply to threaten her."
Hia Worship said that he had taken into consideration accused's ago, and she would be sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Defendant: No option? Magistrate-No.
Mr. Wei Tat, B.A., will speak on usual weekly public lecture of the "Man-Idea in Mysticism" at the and they are holding a meeting Theosophical Society to-day at 6
p.m.
was
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HYDROGRAPHIC WORK.
NOTIFICATION BY NAVAL AUTHORITIES.
The local naval authorities floating beacons, surmounted by black flags, are being moored in connexion with hydrographic work
AFTERMATH OF EARTHQUAKE,
WRCKED BRIDGES HOLD UP TRAINS,
Rangoon, May 7. As a result of the earthquake, some of the railway-bridges have collapsed, and train services are dislocated.
of
of the two famous pagodas
The golden tops and inset jewels
Shwedagon in Rangoon and
destroyed.
in an area the centre of which is Shwemawdaw in Pegu have been 89 miles 250 degrees from Tanjong, Baram. The area is enclosed by A rice mill at Pegu has been lines joining the following posi. completely engulfed; and а tions:
cinema collapsed during a per- formance, the bodies of victims being still in process of being extricated.
(a) Lat 4 degrees 11 minutes
North,
Long 11 degrees 12 minutes
East.
(b) Lat 4 degrees 20 minutes
North,
Long 112 degrees 44 minutes
East.
e) Lat 3 degrees 59 minutes
North,
Long 113 degrees 90 minutes
East.
(d) Lat 3 degrees 51 minutes
North,
Long 112 degrees 28 minutes
East.
Fire is smouldering in the ruins of the devastated part of Pegu. and it is feared that when it has been extinguished the death roll will be further swollen.
die-
An unconfirmed report states that Thongwa island has appeared.-Reuter.
Corrected Death Roll.
Rangoon, later. Very exaggerated figures of the From time to time some of these been authoritatively corrected to earthquake casualties have now beacons will be lit experimentally four hundred killed at Pegu and with an intermittent
flashing light.
Beacons will be in position until the end of October.
RIOUS FATO
"I'm studying foreign languages. I want to develop an accent and get a screen test."
over two hundred killed and injur-1 ed at Rangoon.-Reuter,
[Thongwa is given in the maps
as the name of two South Burma towns, one about 23 miles south- west of Rangoon.]
SEIZURE OF THE CUSTOMS.
THE NORTHERNERS
DETERMINED,
Peking, May 7.
Chu Ao-hsiang made a #taie. ment this evening regarding the detention of the Customs revenue at Tientaip.
He said it was "new money" at stake, namely the extra, amount coming in as a result of the en- forcement of the National tariff,
| which Mr. T. V. Soong would have found useful to pay troops and buy explosives. If he had secured his own loans thereon, it was his lookout,
Yen Hal-shan, he said, was de- termined on drastic action, after a reasonable delay, in order to pre- vent these sums going to the Nanking faction. Steps had been taken to convey the last warning to the Commissioner of Customs, and if the warning failed, the matter would be settled by other
means.
Chu Ao-hsiang declared that the location of the Customs House on the French Concession would not be a cause of difficulty, but he did. not think matters would come to pass necessitating police action. He had received categorical: as- surances that none of the Lega- tions proposed to intervene in the matter, which strictly concerned only China-Router.
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