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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY ́31, 1936.

To Live in Hongkong During the Current Year Means— FREE FERRIES, FREE RENT. BUT MORE WORK

Bandits' Captive

Writes To Wife In U.K.

NEWS of Mr. Alfred

Bosshardt, the Man- chester missionary who was captured in Octo- ber, 1934, by Chinese bandits, alleged to be Communists, has reach- ed Manchester in the form of a letter from his wife at Shanghai to his parents.

The letter, which was written read on December 5, 1935, was

last night to the congregation at the Union Mission Hall, Vine Street, Hulme, with which Mr. Bosshardt was connected before going to China.

Becker

It appears that the bandits de- manded ten thousand dollars for the release of Mr. Bosshardt and of 'n Mr. Hayman, who was cap. tured with him; but when the sum was produced by a Mr. (aeting for the Chinese Mission) they declared was not enough fur both and re- leased Mr. Hayman only. Mr. Bosshardt remains in captivity but is apparently not being ill- treated otherwise,

Inland

that it

Mrs. Bosshardt's Letter Mrs. Bosshardi's letter

part as follows:-

runs in

Mrs. Hayman had arrived from Chefoo with the baby a few days before. She naturally felt very much for me, and no doubt the foy shall only be full-whon dear Alfred has been released. The general director and executives, along with Mrs. Hayman and the baby, went to meet Mr. layman. Mrs. Hay- man thought it would be better if I

SAVED FROM DEPORTATION,

Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, foremost Japanese Christian, author of 100 books on social welfare, pictured when he arrived in Son Francisco to begin a United States lecture tour. Dr. Kagawa was held by immigration officials be cause he suttered an eye amletion and was permitted entry on President Roosevelt's personal Inter- vention.

Widow To Wed Baron

ΑΝ

She Accused Of Fraud

N Austrian baron, awaiting trial at the Old Bailey on a £3,500 false pretences charge, was married at a London register office this month. His bride was the young, wealthy and attrac- tive English widow whom he is accused of defrauding.

New Tartan

The bridegroom is thirty- four-year-old Baron Hans Phil-

lipp Kork. of Abbey-road. St.

LEAP YEAR'S DEBITS

MONTHLY TICKETS. BRING FREE-TRAVEL DAY

Non-Chinese Employees Will Lose Pay For 120,000 Hours

THE month which begins to-morrow is a leap month, of 29 days. During the only year in four that it occurs, Hongkong will spend and earn millions of dollars more than in an ordinary year.

Hongkong people will have, for in recent months, several schemes instance, to feed themselves for one put forward for reforming the day more in 1936 than in 1935. The calendar, so that all years would cost of the extra butter, broad and be of equal length. One group of milk, to mention only three of the reformers would like to see 13 necessities which they will con- months, each of 28 days, with one sume, is put at $50,000,

day left over each year and called This means the purchase of a "dles non." Opponents of this 22,000lb. more bread, 3,000lb, more scheme say the drawback is that butter and 15,000 pints more milk.it makes equal quarters impossi-

Monthly Earnings

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ble,

and one of 31

To offset such expenditure

Another group would like to see people should ordinarily have extra

the months arranged into groups time in which to earn. In any case it would have only been half a day, of three, composed of two months because Feb. 29 falle on a Saturday, of 30 days each Nearly all Europeans in Hongkong, days, so that the quarbers would however, are paid by the month, sobe of exactly equal length. This, that actually they work an extra too, would mean that there would half-day for nothing. Taking the be one day over each year. werking population as 30,000, this means that the taipan gains 120,- 000 hours,

Big hongs, never-thelers, will pay out thousands of dollars in extra wages, lo Chinese em. ployees, hot they will be recompensed by the extra day's production.

Season ticket holders beneft because they get one day's travel free on their February ticket. So also do people who lense homes by the year or the quarter.

their

But perhaps the people on whom leap year bears hardest are those criminals whose "time" Ін mеnsured by the year for it means one day more for them in prison.

Lucky ones Are the "non- marrieds" among Hongkong's WO- men folk. They have the tradi- tional right in Leap Year of pro- posing to their young men.

They secure one day rent free, CORNERED

On the other hand, stockholders

lose one day's interest, as their BOY GUNMAN

money in lent out for 366 days In For

Of

Duke Kent

NEW tartan has been designed for

One of the Duke's titles la Earl of St. Andrews.

did not go, thinking it might be too the Duke of Kent. It much for me. I was present, though, in the hall when they will be called Earl of St. arrived with the cars,, and soon there was a good number comingAndrews tartan. from all sides, and we welcomed hini singing the Doxology. The Lord enabled me to sing, and with my whole heart praise God for Hia goodness to ffis servant. Then I shook hands, but could not utter a word. I would have broken down

The first kilt made from the Before Mr. Hayman left Shanghai

new design was delivered to the he wrote to explain to me why dear Alfred had not been released. Duke last week. The choice did not rest with one or called Was

The tartan ia light blue, with a dark blue shade, in parts, and white stripes.

the other. Dear Alfred Hero No. 1

to go and check the medicine that

Mr. Becker had sent. Then Mr.

Hayman was called and told that -He Gave

doen!

the money that Bud come was not enough for both. Oh, the disappointment for them both. Dear Mr. Hayman did not want to leave Alfred and suggested that as: he (fr. Hayman) could not walk and as Alfred could that Alfred should go, although chairs had been] sent for both of them with a relay of coolies.

His Sight

THERE

John's Wood, N.W. He was sent for trial from the West London Police Court on November 20, and released on £1,500 bail.

the year, instead of 365.

For Colony's Coffers The Colonial Treasurer is one

SHOT DEAD

Blonde Mrs. Lily Wooding is man who welcomes leap year, be- IN "FORT"

his bride to be.

They told the story of their romance just before their mat- ringe. They sat around a log fire at Mrs. Wooding's beautiful home, Tudor Lodge; in Verulam. avenue, Purley.

"It is rather like a Christmas tale, isn't it?" said Mrs. Wooding.

"Hans and I met and fell in love about ten months ago. We became engaged last May.

"Then we began some business negotiations. Things went wrong.

cause it brings a day's more revenue into the Colony's coffers. There should be an increase of $3,000 from Excise, $5,000 from Customs, $10,000 from the Post Office and

Sydney (N.S.W.),

Jan. 18.

aged eighteen, known

|$6,000. from stamp duties. JAMES S. PENROSE,

the

In the Army, Navy and Air Force an increase is allowed

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for the extra day's pay which as the "boy gunman,' falls under the 1936 ex and leader of a gang,

penditure.

I stood to lose a lot of money. past years, and whose birthdays

"The engagement was broken off, and these awful proceedings

were started.

"We met, talked it all over, and became re-engaged just in time for Christmas,"

Baron Korf interrupted: "We have been in love all the time, real

ly.

This affair has cost us about £6,000 apart from the legal

are many types of heroism. America's "Pub- lic Hero No. 1” is a man who | charges. deliberately sacrificed his sight in the cause of science. God has granted your dear wish

His name has just been made that the prisonera should have the book "Streams in the Desert!" Out public. He is Clarence Brown,

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of that they got scripture verses & fifty-year-old resident of Iowa and comforting thoughts. It was City. still with dear Alfred when Mr. Hayman parted,

thousands Every year

of America's Red Indians become Mr. Hayman gave me a cap dear afflicted with total blindness,| Alfred made with crochet and little owing to the ravages of trachoma, bits of wool and cotton he got here a strange discase of the eye-lids. and there where they stayed, niso The Government has spent years

a band of coloured bits of wool that

neted an a cholern belt. He has in scientific research trying to mado friends with many by doing stamp things like that.

out the disease. Then Brown came along.

He suffers from an incurable The guards, which are continual- ly with them, are how very sym- disease, which only gives him a pathetic and do not mock them any few more years to live. more. When Mr. Hayman was tou

A Last Look

the

rushed out to

Ill to take his food with chop sticks, Brown volunteered to be moca two of

what when the tinted with an neute form of fetch a spoon.

"And I do hope that everything will end happily at the Old Bailey," said Mrs. Wooding. "Then we shall go away for a long holi day."

For A Happy Life-

the Duke of Abercorn, and Sir

For many people lean year means shot Detective Terbutt

rare treat of having a birthday. They are the people through the head on who have been born on Feb. 29 in New Year's Eve as the fall only once every four years. police broke-up-a-band The Marquia of Hamilton, heir of of street rowdies. Eustace Fiennes, a former colonial To-day eleven detectives governor, are among these. traced Penrose, who had barri- The people who object most caded himself in a slum collar strongly to leap year are the which he had transformed into statisticians. The extra day up-n fort by tearing out the bricks sets all their calculations, because to form loopholes for his re- it means that, for instance, the volvers. trade figures of 1936 will not be truly comparable with those for 1935 because the two years are of different lengths.

Changing Calendar

As a result the Royal Statisti- cal Society has considered, with-

MARRIED PEOPLE ASK FOR FOUR THINGS

New York, Jan. 18.

The four things married persons consider most important are children, good (meals, an attractive home and a wife adept in! the social graces, a recent cross-section survey of American families showed.

Most of the answers came from average men in that section marry the white collar ciano, and 38 at 20 and wrote until deliverance is

is granted, is that authorities to determine how it which will be continued by True riad people all over the country states are represented in the poil Eighty five per cent, of the mar they may be willing to carry Alfred 118 Infectious and how its Story Magazine" until the entire believe children should be reared

In some religion; 15 per cent, say' The experiment was conducted country is represented.

in the fung marches as his heart symptoms developed. does not stand them anymore; or

he is able to walk, let us pray that

The averago American man no.

As the police surrounded the tenement Penrose's fourteen- year-old sweetheart slipped through the cellar door. "The police captured her.

Sergeant McCarthy ran into the cellar and flashed, a torch in the bandit's face. Penrose reached for his gun; the detective fired and missed.

Penrose then turned his gun and shot himself through the head. Ho died almost immediately.

Non-Skid Bath Streamlined, skid-resisting bath, the outcome of three years' experiments, has ap- peared in Detroit.

Base of the bath has a wave-liko tread designed to eliminate the many accidents attributed to slippery baths.

Gluttony

ho should not need to carry his own at the Indian Hospital at Fort marries at the age of 24 and taleos Two-thirds of the married couples bundle. He still has the travelling Apache, Arizona. Brown took a brida who rug which he had when we parted last look at the daylight and at them do not have an assured in while 60 per cent, of the persons Extract from report read at the but he had to send back books and the flowers he loved then walked come when they start out to found covered in the survey any they annual meeting of the American Bibles after twelve days because be into the operating theatre.

a home. And half of them are go- «would object to their children could not carry them. Since Mr. The germa soon became active, ing through life without accumu- marrying a person subscribing to Association of Insecticide Manu- Hayman left they must have been and within six weeks Brown has lating any sayings for days of another follglon.-United Press, on the move, but where is dear Alfred? Communist troops have become totally blind.

misfortune dispersed, some in South

But, as a result of his heroism, Two thirds of the families have which has forced atations, to be doctors have acquired a serum to

insurance policy, worth evacuated; some seem to have gone prevent the spread of infection-in on the average, $3,000... in the direction at Kweichow, all other cases.

"Moths consumę £50,000,000 is 19%. Half of bolong to the same religious faith, worth of clothing annually."--

Triangle Drama

Hunan

THREE WOMEN IN A MAN'S LIFE: HE PICKED THE THREE.

New York, Jan. 20. PAUL RICHARD WENZ, aged twenty-six, is a philosopher #There are three women in every man's life," he told the New York Police today; "one he loves, one who loves him, and one he marriesTM

But, according to the police, there was something wrong with bis philosophy, because they accused him of marrying" all three. women,,widiout obtaining divorces,

an

Enroute To Hongkong

facturers.

...

In trying to determine what is the ideal stats of marriage one of the 19 questions asked WEB whether the young couples object- ed to living with their in-laws..

New York, Jan. 24. The answer was a thundering "YES". At present the vote Mr. Serge Rubinstein, managing director of the Chosen against the in-laws is running Corporation, who recently journeyed from London to New York, about 15 to 1 throughout the and is now heading for Hongkong, stopped, at Honolulu to-day. country.

Accompanied by, Countess Erbody he hurried ashore and talked by Sentiment against in-laws is telephone to London and Paris. strongest in Ohio, Indiana, Wia- cosin, Michigan and Illinois where the vote is 38 to 1, in contrast to the national average of 15 to 1, against mothers and fathers dwell Ing with married children....

longest to get married. "On the

HULA GIRLS DANCE FOR MR. SERGE RUBINSTEIN

Mr. Itubinstein and the counters then attended a typical Hawalian concert with bala dancing and singing arranged in their honour.

The financler stated that he was on his way to a meeting of direc tors of the Nuropi, Kozan, of Korea, a gold mining concern, and to attend

to other gold mining interests.

afr. Rubinstein said he was making his journey by way of America because he feared molestation. if he had travelled through Russie, as he ju

Countess Erbody said she was taking a plearure. trip.

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