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NOTED ESSAYIST PASSES AWAY

MR. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

IRISH REBELLION MEMORIES

London, Nov. 20. Mr. Augustine Birrell, the well known essayist, died in London to-day aged 83, after a brief illness.

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FUKIEN CRISIS

(Continued from Page-1.)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933.

for the organisation of the now Government in Fukien,

A draft telegram which in to bo circulated to the Governments of various provinces, was also agreed | at the mosting.

The telegram states, in effect, that since the national criels, the whole country has been working hard to achieve salvation for the country. The Central Government

OLYMPIC GAMES

JEWISH PROBLEM

*RAISED

UNITED STATES'

THREAT

́LORRY MISHAP

INQUEST ON TWO MEN : COMMENCED.

Dramatic evidence of

a lorry'a wild career down a steep alope

The jury comprised Messrs, O. B.

RADIO BROADCAST

AN ADDRESS FROM THE STUDIO BY MR, G. C.. PELHAM

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 866 metres:

4.30-7 p.m. Chinese recorded pro- gramme.

when its brakes failed to act, was TO-DAY'S BROADCAST. given by Wong Wah, the driver of lorry No. 1051, at a Coroner's in- quiry opened by Mr. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, into the deaths of two coolles, Chan Yim and Wong Kau, Pittsburg, Nov, 20. who were killed when the lorry is prepared to embark upon an

The United States will not crashed at Chal Wan Gap. ambitious national reconstruction programme as soon as the "Red" participate in the Olympic Payne (foreman), T. V. Lopes and menace is completely suppressed. Games in 1986 unless assur-M. A. Xavier.

7-10.39 p.m. European programme. 7 pm. Closing Local Block Quota- TO SUPPRESS MOVEMENT. ances are forthcoming from

The noeldent occurred on tho tions, ele. Germany concerning the afternoon of October 28. The lorry Song-Meet me in the Gloaming.

7.3-7.30 p.m. Variety, At this critical juncture, the Jewish question..

was being driven into the city from Sung-What Do I Care, It's Home, tolegram procõeda, the Central,

Stanloy with a load of molasses Government is surprised to learn the National Convention now in When coming down the slope at This decision was reached at mash. Sovoral coolies were in it.

Maurice Elwin (Baritone), Vocal Duet-I Don't Want to Go that General Chan Ming-shu and.

to Bed. certain others are starting a American Athletic Union,

at Pittsburg of the Chai Wan Gap, the driver applied Vocal Dust Just One More. volt, in league with the Com-A resolution was passed calling act. He gave the warning, and the brakes, but found they did not

Stanley Lupino and Elale munists and the so-called Third

Carlisle. Party leaders in Fukien, and also! Committee to inform Germany that door of the cab struck, a rock, and Humorous-And Modern American

upon the International Olymple some men jumped clear. The left Humorous-Naughty Victorian Days. circulating malicious statements unleas against the Central Government.

German-Jewish athletes the lorry skidded across the road,

Douglas Byng (Comedian). permitted

and bat did not turn over. to train miniater. Educated at Cambridge, the Central Government is com- Olympic Games of 1936, United

he Cerah such a state of affairs, prepare for and participate in the was found deal, and another died he was called to the Bar where hopelled to take steps to suppress the States athletes will not participate.

In hospital.

built up a good practico.. In 1803 movement. ho became a KC, and he was a Jaw professor at University College, London, from 1898 to 1899.

Jo was formerly a Liberal mom- ber of Parliament and held office in the administration before War. He was chief Secretary for Ire- Iand when the rebellion took place in 1916. After resigning that post shortly afterwards, he took little part in politient life.

Mr. Augustine Birrell, essayist, lawyer and statesman, was born near Liverpool in 1850, as the son Scottish Nonconformist of D

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LITERARY CRITIC.

But it was as a literary critle with a delightful style and original vein of wit that he first became known to the pubile through his book of ensaya "Obiter Dicta". (1884).

In 1889 he became. Liberal M.P. for East Fife. His light, but pointed humour enlivened the Commons and led to the coining of

the word "birrellisms.” His Jaw books were na brightly written a

a startling hia casoys and were novelty in the legal world. A second series of "Obiter Dicta" appeared in 1887 and was followed by "Ros Judicatne" and other volumes of essays and biographies,

HOME RULE.

Returned for a Bristol meat in 1900, he became Minister of Education and was responsible for a bill which caused such a controversy that it was with- drawn, na the Government re- fused to accept the Lords' amend- ments

In the Interests of sectarianism.

Birrell was then made Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1907, His Irish Council Bill, a halfway house to Home Itule, was repudiat ed by the Nationalists and with- drawn. Ho whs powerless to Huppress the cattlo-driving agita- tion, as he refusal to utilise the Crimes Act, but his plan for n reconstituted Irish Catholic Uni- versity was very favourably ceived,

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| progress

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NO BITTERNESS.

Ono man

they had the evidence on the deaths

The Coroner said he observed

of two men.

Traffic-Sub-Inspector Nicol.

One man was taken direct to the mortuary and the other died In hospital the same night. They were both on the same vehicle; your Worship. Dr. Thomas Dr. Pringle are both here.

and

The telegram also appeals to the Various provincial authorities to co-operate with the Central Gov-| It was further resolved that "the | ernment in putting down the re- plea of United States athletics volt as quickly as possible,should be taken not as one of bitter- Central Neios Agency..

ness but as one of concern for a AMOY REACTION.

way to be found for Germany to satisfy the world that all and not Amoy, Nov, 21.

merely some of the fundamental

Medical Evidence. Following the establishment of Principles of democracy in sport an independant Government in and the Olympic Games are and Giving evidence regarding Wong Fukten, the local authorities have

will continue dominant."

Kau, 30, Dr. G. H. Thomas, taken over control of all revenue The Games, of 1936 are arrang-medical officer, Government Civil bureaux formerly under the directed to be held in Berlin-Reuter. control of the Nanking Govern- ment, such as the Salt Gabelic, as well as the Fukien branches of the Central Bank of China, the Government Wireless

Stations and the Government Telegraph Offer-Central News,

COTTON, LOAN PLANS

FOUR CENTS A POUND

FOR FARMERS

.

· TAIT SHOWS

SPÉCIAL DAYS FOR KIDDIES

The Tall Showe, enjoying successful

run in Kowloon, are closing next Sunday night, as they are leaving for Manila to build up for the Philippine Carnival that takes place In February.....

The Tait Shows inform us that there will be three big days for the kiddles before they leave, with Washington, Nov. 20.

all shows and attractions include Government's plans to advance ing the Dodg'em at greatly reduced the farmers four cents "

pound prices. The afternoons of the last on Government cotton upon which three days of the Fair are set aside they hold an option, have been for the purpose and on Friday, completed according to one of the Saturday and Sunday from 4.30 to Directors of the Reconstruction? p.m. all shows and rides will be

in operation. Finance Corporation,

Eddie Phillmore, billed as the

Approximately $120,000,000 will

be needed to complete the trans- Kreatest motor cycle rider in the actions, which will be obtained world, will perform in the "Globe by a quet of $30,000,000 from of Death" each afternoon at 6.30 the RF.C., the remainder being and special Chinese acts will be supplied by the Commodity Credit staged as a free attraction during Corporation

aside for tho and commerical the afternoons set banks,

children.

Chandu will also be on hand to

The loans will be based on ten

In 1912 the Liberals introduced the 3rd. Home Rule Bill which cents a pound, the farmers to give his magic show which will be Birrell prepared. When resist receive four cents and the Secret performed for the first time since ance was organised in Uister,ry of Agriculture six cents in his arrival In the Colony, and let volunteers called for and a pro- in payment of the option. Reuter.a mention Bimbo the clown who visional Government set up he

Washington, Nov. 20.7 guarantees to produce a laugh a made light of the Ulster difficulty The Farm Administration has minute all for the delight of the and was criticised for "Nippancy", announced the immediate distribu- kiddies. but he advocated a national tion of $48,000,000, to cotton pro- settlement by consent.

ducers, which constitites n four cente per pound advance to 600,000 producera, who receive options on 2,400,000 bales of Government cotton, in return for reducing the 1934 nereage.---Reuter.

SINN FEIN.

RUBBER PROBLEM.

SOLUTION POSSIBLE IP NECESSARY

Hospital, said he was admitted on October 28 at 5.40 p.m. In an un- conscious condition and died at 9.20 p.m. without regaining conscious nesa. Two days later he made a post

Ho mortem examination. found no external wounds, but on

opening the skull, found that beneath the scaly was extensive bruising. The skull on the right aldo showed a faint crack and the entire surface of the brain was covered with blood clots. There was also contusion of the right Jung.

Witness sttributed death to con- tusion of the brain, and the in- juries were conalatent with a heavy fall on his right side and head.

Dr. Thomas added.No opera- tion was attempted because he was too deeply unconscious. In these cases an operation is very seldom successful."

Ways.

Vocal DuctYou've Got me Crying

Again.

Vocal Duct-St. Louis Blues.

Rellly and Comfort. 7.80-8 pm From the Studio. The 6th of a series of Leasons on "Cantonese" by Rev. Mr. H, R. Wells, 8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report.

8.3-8.25 p.m. From the Studio. d'Aquino accompanied by Miss Marin A Song Recital by Miss Edriz Gomez.

Programme, .

1. Cradle Song (Brahms), 2. Malden's Wish (Chopin).

Interval.

1. Mighty Lak' a Rose (Norin), 2. Duchess of Dreams (From

"Botty"). Interval.

1. Pipes of Pan (Monckton). 8.25-9 p.m. Quartet (No. 10) in E fat major..

(Op. 74) (Beothoven).

Played by the Capet (String) Quartet of Paris. (This Sulto la kindly loaned by a Listener).

9-9.15 p.m. From the Studio. Trade Commissioner) will give an Mr. G. Clinton. Pelham (II. M.

address on "British Trade.

Chinese

and

D.15-10.30 p.m. A relay of the Hongkong Hotel Danco Orchestra from the Hongkong

Hotel Grill Room by courtesy of the Decca records will be broadcast from Management. (During the Intervals

the Btudio).

News

10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press.

10.35 p.m. Close Down.

All records, in the above Euro- pean evening programme, except where otherwise stated, are Decca, and aro kindly supplied by the Agenta, Mesars, Reiss, Massey and Co.

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Dr. L. D. Pringle; medical officer in charge of Victoria Mortuary, said that, on October 29 at 10.86 a.m. he performed a'post mortem on the body of Chan' Yim, 35. The cause of death was fracture of the skull, laceration of the brain and shock. Outwardly the body ap peared healthy and death and s curred about 18 hours previous to the

examination. Thero were numerous lacerations of the scalp, PLAN TO STRENGTHEN multiple abrasions all over the body. a compound fractura of the loft

elbow and a simple fracture of the left wrist. There was also an extensive repressed fracture of the skull immediately behind the right

The injuries were consistent with the body being thrown to the ground with considerable force.

INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS

BONDS

London, Nov..20.. Representatives of the Royal

car, the fragments of the bone Empire Society, the Overseas being driven in and causing lacera-Longus and ten other organisa- tion of the brain.

tions whose several activities are directed to the broad purpose of oxtending and strengthening the Jumped Of Lorry,

personal side of inter-Imperial re- The war postponed this con- troversy and the danger was then

Young Hing-vee, the owner of lationship, met the Dominions from the Sinn Fein extremists.

the lorry, said that he was told the Secretary, Mr. J. H.-Thomas, at Batavia, Nov. 20. They carried on successful pro-

The Governor of the East Coast tons (about 24 picula) and it was

lorry could carry one and a half the Dominions Office this after- Charged with stealing a silk scarf paganda in Ireland against enlist- and a neck tie from the Central Com of Sumatra has given it as his carrying over twenty pleuls. ment which Birrall failed to extin-pany, Des Voeux Road, a salesman, opinion that if it is certain that asked the driver to stop when they rendering their vctivities still He noon, to discuss the possibility of guish and it culminated in open Liu. Ping-kwan, was bound over by rubber restriction is both neces-

reached Chai Wan Gap, but the rebellion at Easter, 1910. After Mr. Balfour

at the Central Police sary and useful, a method of carry-driver did not, saying that the lorry

more effective Jhrough, closer co- the suppression of the rising Court this morning. Inspector An- ing it out can surely, be found.

drew said realmed,

defendant was seen

had no brakes. He did not see operation among their individual explaining

by He suggests that. governmental whether the driver had changed bodies. that another salesinan last night to go Intervention should be stopped if a gears before this. The lorry then he knew he had run grave into the bathroom. On coming out fair margin of profit. Is reached gathered pace, and he jumped on risks in not tackling Slyn Fein, he

observed to bo acting but that he had subordinated suspiciously. A European

by producers. sergeant everything to keeping the front was called in and on searching the

The question of 'amuggling was in Ireland unbroken towards the defendant he found the scarf. The more difficult, he admitted, Empire's enemies.

tio was found later, at the Police Sta- would probably require interna- and tion, on the defendant.

Honal arrangements.-Reuter.

he

LITERARY WORK,

Mfr. Birrell resigned from Parlin- ment in 1918 and resumed his literary work. In 1920 he publish- ed a memoir of his father-in-law, the

poet F. Lockor-Lampaon. Another volume of "Obiter Dicta"

O camo,out in 1924,

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

IT IS NOT MUCH CONSEQUENCE The "Messiah" choir practies of WHAT YOU SAY, AB HOW YOU BAY IT. the Union Church, Kennedy Road,

Alexander Smith.

has been changed Nov. 22 and 20, instead of being held to Wednesdaye,

on Tuesdays:

The business at to-day's meeting

auction

Line is

A proposal that the subject

to the running board and then to should be examined in detail at the ground. The lorry had dis- walked along the road and mot the appeared when he got up, and he further meetings under a chair- man nominated by the Secretary driver, who said theve had been an accident. The lorry Wis last of State was welcomed.-Britiek examined a week before the ac- Wirclean. cident, and the driver had then re- ported to him that the brakes were in good order.

Wong Wal, a student, who was morning of the day previous to the they were near the tea shed by He then had occasion to apply the travelling on the lorry, sata that accident, when he had driven it in Wanchal, and the Central District. Chai Wan Gap when he heard the brakes and found them in order. His other works Include lives of the Sanitary. Board will be of a. The Java-China-Japan

sound of the gear being changed. On the afternoon of October 28 he of Charlotte Bronte, William routine nature,

circulating

The lorry was then travelling at an Hazlitt, Andrew Marvell and Sir

a most attractive and Frank Laekwood.

was driving back from Stauley, The annual general meeting of the by the Nederland Royal Mail Line, hand brake applied, and the lorry and travelling at 18 or 14 miles an

beautifully Bustrated brochure issued ordinary pace. He then heard the On his 79th birthday he was Saturday, November 25, at 11.30 between Amsterdam and the Nether speed. He then heard the driver's Chal Wan Gap he changed into Helena May Institute will be held on which maintains a regular service then started to sildo incrensing in hour. At the top of the hill at entertained to luncheon by friends a.m. followed by BA distinguished in literature and magazines.

of lands Indies via Southampton and shout of no brakes and jumped off, second gear before going down the politics. He was still writing

Singapore.

landing on a pllo of earth and steep. The lorry was going alow and occasionally made one of his During the week-end, one case of Mr. Wong Kwong tin, J., will the two deceased men in the gutter foot brake but nothing happened. rolling into the nullah. He found at the time, and when he found it brilliant speeches, delivered at diphtheria, one case of typhold, one present medal to members of the

was gaining speed he pressed the the old lightning speed, notably, at and ous case of meningitis, were te- Amulance Brigade (Overseas) who Shaukiwan Felice Station, said that with the same moulland tried to

imported case of paratyphoid fever, Mangkok Division of the St. John

on the left side of the road. Wisbech during the 1929 electiont ported to the local health authorities. volunteered for service in Shanghai, ho went to the scene, on receipt of

Acting Inspector Logan, of the He then applied the hand brake His 80th birthday was celebrated at the National Liberal Club

and nursing certificatas to thé whore he predicted the National tive-Sergeant MeRobbie, raided the on November 26, at 7 pm.

A police party headed by Detec Nursing Division, at King's College a telephone message, and found one run the lorry to the left side of man dead and another seriously the road in order to stop it. He Government aaying that the time ground floor of 1, Lower Rutter

injured lying might come when all classes Street last night, and

on the road. The felt the left door of the cab hit a nTreated would join hands and fortunes to twelve Chinese who were gambling. Journal," the offcial organ of

The latest issue of the "Education Fathers from the Italian Convent rock, and this resulted in the lorry keep the country afloat-Reuter pleked up.

Table money amounting to $4.35 was Hongkong

the and a boy scout, Ip Tung-shan, of being thrown off Its course, and it University

Education the 10th. Troop, were attending did not turn over. All the cargo akidded right across the road, but and Special.

Eight of the gamblers Society, is full of interesting features. the other injured when he arrived. appared before Mr. Balfour at the Amongst the contributions may be Three of the 'victims were sont to Central Police Court this morning,, mentioned articles on "The Problem when the keeper, who held the bank of Education in Hongkong," by Fr. hospital. An apparently insane man leaped fined $50 and the rest $3 onch. The Standardised by F.ll, Llang, D.A.; at the time of the police entry, was Byrnet "Romanization of Chinese from the top deck of a tram at Quay four absent defendants had their and An Alphabetic Language for Bay yesterday and hurt himself badly. hat! of $3 each estreated.

Brakes Fall to Act.

the alarm no brakes,

was upset. Ife was not hurt at all. With him in the cab was You Choi, Ha went up the hill in third gear. and it only took' him a short while. The man, identified as Chan Hing-wan, and four stools seized, were confiscat are many other features in this issue, gular driver of the lorry, but had

to change into second gear, which' Wong Wah, the driver of the he did when he started down tho A tahle China," by Fr. D. MacDonald, There tarry, said that he was not the re-alone, aged 80, a Inbourer, was admitted to ed, and the table money was placed which comprises nearly 140 pages, been engaged to drive it on the Thursday afternoon at 2.30 p.m. the Goverment Clvli Hospital.

in the Poor Box.

Hearing was adjourned until and which is a credit to all concerned.

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