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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931.

THE BURMA REVOLT.

by a fear that a milder attitude might lower the prestige

of

authority and be misconstrued as

a algo of weakness. Those who

argue thus, however, fall to realise

DAY BY DAY

. LIFE 18 A LONG LESSON IN HUMILITY. J. M. Barrie.

Mr. Charles Crawford Stark, has been appointed Assistant General Manager of the South China Division of the Vacuum Oil Company.

A boarder of the Kum Tol Hotel, Nathan Road, attempted to commit suicida last evening by taking a deso of opium. He did not, however, take a sußeiently large dose and was not in a serious condition when removed to the Kowloon Hospital.

Do We Want an Extra Month?

By WHATELY C. ARNOLD.

that constituted authority cannot be expected to bargain with confessed rebels. There can be no parleying with these people until they first crase their Inwless activities. Sug gestions of a general amnesty, with the first move to be made by the Government, seem equally ill based. There must, obviously be some evidence of repentance on the part of the rebels before action along these linen is conceivable.

On the question of the real cause of the rebellion, It is worth noting that during the trial of some of the rebels recently, ample evidence was forthcoming that armed resis- tance had been decided on in op- Internal injuries were recolved by a tain thirteen months, as if this

colle, Tam Chung (8) of 284, were the only way in which reform would be that the first day of every position to the capitation tax.

Queen's Bend West, as a result of a can be effected.

year and of every quarter of a leaders of the movement went so

fall whilst carrying grain at the

schentes, howover, have year would be a Monday, and the the last day always a Sunday. The far as to force ignorant people to Kowloon Godown's branch godown at been under consideration by

Kennedy Town. The man was taken Expert Committee since 1921, four usual quarter days would be join in the movement, and the re- to the Government Civil Hospital by Some of them merely propose to the 25th day of March, June. Sep-

equalise the quarters and half-tember and bels were later supplied with uni-his relatives.

December, and they years of the present calendar: would always fall on Mondays, with forms and regularly drilled, Their

The theft of 121 chickens about one others carry out the main object of exa

exactly ninety-one days in each orders were to attack any Govern-week old, valued at $28, from the reform-ensuring that every quarter. Half-quarterly days would ment forces which arrived on the chicken house at Pokfulam un Ialand date in the year shall always fall be on Fridays, the 10th days of

(REAT changes in the calendar! The year would be divided into are now being considered by four, quarters of three months as experta in many countrlos, párti- follows:-

Days, cularly in Britain, where an official committee has just concluded a January long inquiry into the question of February

March Suffering from injuries.to his face, reform.

The findings of this committes. A A fall from received through scaffolding at DB East Street, Quarry together with proposals from other Bay, an electrician named Me Kwal, nations, will be placed before July

the special conference of the League August aged 33, has been removed to

scene.

The

Dnya.

.30 April.

.30

.30 May

.30

.31 June

.31

51

91

.30 October

30

30 November

.30

.31 DecembeTM

.81

01

01

The effect of this arrangement

Government Civil Hospital, lis con- of Nations in October: and at pre- September dition, however, is not serious.

sent all the prophets are forecast- that the new calendar will con-

Lot No. 3278 was reported to the

ing

Other

It. is placed on record also police by a house coolie yesterday. on the same day of the week in February, May, August and Novem-

The fowl were taken some time he every year.. taveen 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday and 7,30 Jam, on Wednesday,

that stong intimidatory measures were brought to bear bn the rank and Sle, whose credulity and ignor Race were abominably exploited. in these circumstances, it is hardly to he wondered at that the move- ment should develop to the alarming extent that it has. With conditions as they are, there is only one sible line of action for the authori ties-a determination to suppress the movement before it becomes

even graver in character.

to

The advantage of this far greater than it ap. nears nt first sight. It all public holidays and Two fokis of a stall in the Wanchaibles

anniversaries to be fixed on the Markel became engaged in an argumost convenient day of the week, ment over work yesterday and

one

ber, with exactly forty-five daya before and after those days.

Fixing the Festivals. The two intercalary days before mentioned are also provided for in

ls scheme.

It is also suggested that with a

of them, Chong Cho-piu, aged 15, and it solves the Easter problem. Inflicted a stab wound on the left arm More than that, it enables the busi- of Wong ili, aged 18, who was taken ness world to avoid all the confu- calendar in which every dato al-

to the Government Civil Hospital for ston which the present system in-ways falls on the same day of the treatment. His assailant han sincevolves. absconded.

week it is possible, although not Days Without a Date.

compulsory, to fix the movable feasts. The 14th day of April was While there is a different number proposed for Easter Sunday, and A report of his house having been of days in each month and quar- the 3rd day of June for Whit- broken into was made to the pollee

by Mr. A. M. Gomez, of 108, Tanger of the year, it is nearly Im Monday.

hai Street, Mongkok, who stated possible to obtain accurate com-

The August Bank Holiday would and 11 p.m.parisons of accounts and statistics always be on Monday, August 6, that between 10 a.m. Yesterday someore, using a duplicate To attempt precise calculations at and Christmas Day, of course, on menna loss of time and December 25, unless it were pre-

***

Was

aftor

key, gained admission to his premises present and stole $200 in money and clothing money.

ferred to transfer it at length in A Shanghai Tragedy.

worth $24.

There are two methods of achievita

proper place in the calendar, ing regularity, and both require namely, the Intercalary day be Shanghai, which has many claima

As a result of a quarrel over a debt, that one day in every year and an tween the last day of one year and regard itself the most a young Chinese named Chung Saff, additional one in every leap year the first of the following year, call- cosmopolitan city of the world, is aged 22, residing at 100 Temple shall have no date other than thated Christmas Day, as the appro- Street, Arst floor, received a stab of the year. These are called tech-priate date implied by the words presented with many of the queer wound in his back by an unknown nically "intercalary days," and are "Anno Domini for the birthday of problems which accompany such a Chinese who is now being searched trented as.holidays.

Our Lord. status. Few, however, have offer- for by the police. The victim

The intercalary day for every The small disturbance caused to ed the authorities so many difficul-taken to the Kowloon, Hospital last

year is usually inserted between business and social events by this evening for treatment.

the last day of one year and the scheme is very light compared with ties as the case of a poor Russian

first day of the next, while Leap the scheme of the thirteen-month refugee, a woman who has suffer-

The Treasurer of the Sailors and Year Day is usually inserted after calendar. et greatly and experienced meny Soldiers Home acknowledges the, the end of June. This leaves 364

The only unusual dates The

well- ceipt of the following donation days, and it is in the method of February 29 and 30 would be the woman is The rebellion in Burman, of which cruelties.

response to the recent appeal for very little has been heard excepting own in the majority of Shang-funds-The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, dividing these into months that the 1st days of June and September.

hai's big offer buildings. Most of C.M.G. and Mrs. Southern $100; various schemes differ.

hoth of which, however, would fall in rather baldly-worded official com- her days appear to be spent in seek. Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin $15; Com-

One method is to divide the year on Sundays. The only slight bual- anuniques, continues to be a mattering money to enable her to pursue

modore A. H. Walker, 0.8.E., $25; Into thirteen months of twenty-ness difficulties would be the proper Mr. D. F. Warren, $25.

eight days, or exactly four weeks. of grave concern tu British her delusions, brought about by the

The other is to divide the year into adjustments of due dates for pay- authority. It was so long ago as i hardships she has undergone. Her

ber 31; 1933. In prosecuting a Chinese woman for four equal quarterly periods of monts contracted for after Decem- December that the troubles began nain obsessions are that she is re- keeping an illegal establishment, ninety-one days, or thirteen weeks,

Mitsubdivided into three months, of versaries, only very small adjust- As to social and national anni-, Chevalier, Inspector in the Thurrawaddy district, and lated to the late Emperor Joseph at the Central Police Court which two are of thirty days cachments would be required.

of Austria, and that she carries a

morning, intimated that two and one is of thirty-one days.

Now contrast this proposed new of the premises had been) Least Possible Disturbance... calendar with the thirteen-month elapsed the revolt has developed to

inmates kidnapped from Macao and it was on

Both methods are subject to calendar. information received by the Macao Police that the house was raided and variations of the day of the week in Apart from the initial difficulty the girls returned to the Portuguese which to start. The second method of finding and getting nccustomed Colony. The defendant was fined also. varies according whether lu a new name for the thirteenth the thirty-one-day month is first,month, there is the fact that, where- $100.

second or third in order in euch as twelve is divisible by two, three, four and six without remainders, Leung Hoi-chuen

charged quarter. WAS before Mr. Hamilton, at Kowloon this In each case, however, it is re-thirteen is indivisible, so that the morning, with having kept an opium cognised as essential that the least only way of marking the quarterly divan at 19, Pakhol Street, and with possible disturbance should ensue and half-quarterly days for re possession of 3.5 taels of prepared in existing arrangements of busi-ceipts and payments and other pur- opium and eight toels of raw splum. On admitting all the charges he was, social and religious matters, pores would be by calculating thir With this object in view, I de-teen weeks or six and a half weeks fined $57 er one month on the first vised the following scheme some or ninety-one any and and 2240 or two months on the third years ago. Under it the new culen-five, and a half days. $280 ur two months on the second

may two dar would begin on January 1,parison count. The sentences on the latter counts are to run concurrently. 1934, which falls on a Monday,

in the months that

have sinen

some

telephone in her body which, the says, informs her all the time that intensity and magnitude to an ex-

her wealth and jewels are buried tent without parallel in the annals anter some Castle in Austria, and of Burma since the British occupa- if only she could reach England tion. We notice that in

she could procure the "key of the quarters it is claimed that the root underground," and would be happy cause of the trouble is economic, for ever after. For this purpose Distress is said to be acute and

she has been trying to collect the widespread, and, according to a

money needed for her passage. What can be done for the poor prominent Burman, the general

thing? She quite refuses the attitude of the people involved in hospitality of the Foreign Women's the disturbances appears to be that Home, as she tells us they eat as death, though slow, is sure. It human beings there--she has smelt is better that they die with their them being Tried. No other institu- stomachs full; if they are caught tion will take her and she is not and convicted of rebellion, they may fit subject to the confined in the have to suffer the full penalty of the Mental Ward-and then too, who -law, but if they escape with a pri- would pay for her there? This is only one of the many sad eases son term, they can at least countruffering from delusions enused by

on regular meals.

This is a typical Burma outlook on the situation, but it would up

pear

that

the matter is

the

privation and barbarities suffered i

the and seen the hands of Bolsheviks, in all probability she, like so many others has hidden her Tot jewellery and heirlooms--before quite so simple as all that. Indeed, fleeing the country. Solomon him. evidence has been accumulatingseif might be puzzled to find a 10 show that

whole solution to the problem, movement is political in churae. ter. Although there appeurs

to be

strong majority in favour of separation from India, extremists have been luisy suggest. ing that the final result may be to reduce Burma to the status of a

WATER LEVELS:

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH.

· AND ́EAST RIVERS.

.

June June

3

mer. Crown Colony. The bulk of the Kwangtung River Conservancy The following table, issued by

the rebels, of cource, cannot have Commission, shows in English feet the least interest in the political the water levels on the West River, aspect of the question, but it has North River and East River on the

dates named: been suggested that they are being made the tools of the mischief- making politicians.. How far that North River at Tsingyuon 15.6 11.4 West River at Shluhing 0.7 10.0 is true it is difficult to say, but there North River at Samshui 10.4 10.0 can be little doubt that the pro- East River at Samshul 10.4 fessional agitator is very busy in The highest levels recorded are: these days.. Thero has-Shlubing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, (29.2 feet; Samehul, 273 Test; been a complaint in same quartors Shoklung, 11.5 feat. that the Governor and his advisers

Burma

10.2

The lowest levels on record are have not been conciliatory enough minus 5 feet at Samshuf and in polley, actuated, it is suggested, Iminus 2.7 feat at Sheklung.

this

ア

before

"Thought you said you'd drop around for a chat this morning at nine-You've kept me waitin' 20 minuten.?

A com-

forty-

be mado with the twelve-month calendar by considering the form of the thir- teen-month calendar which has al- ready been published as follows:-- Sunday Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

-16 22

D 10 23 10 17 24

4' 11 18 26 6 12. 19 20

7

14

€ 13 20 27 21 28

This will will be identical for the whole of the thirteen months. The thirteenth month (which it is pro posed to name "Sol," with the op- timistic hope, no doubt, that it will be full of sunshine) is to be in- scrted between Juno and July..

It is announced that this calendar Is to begin on January 1, 1034. AR that date.

according to

the present calendar, will fall on Monday, It must be assumed that by the Act of Parliament which establishes it, the December 31, 1983, will be either omitted altogether or con-- verted into the Intercalary Year. Day, 1934.

It will be found, for instanco, that the corresponding dates for the usual quarterly days (which. In the new twelve-month calendar wil always be Mondays, 25th of March, Junc, September and December) will be as follow:

April 2. Sol. 9th September 21- and December 28.

Noto in passing that this involves the now date of December 28 for Christina Day,

When it is remembered that most leases and tenancy agreements for a year or more provide, not only" payment of rent on quarter days, but also for the determination:us the term on some quarter day one

(Continued from Pags