THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1986.
Always in Good Taste
Joss
Chocolates
A fresh consignment of these famous chocolates has just been unpacked..
Unexcelled as always for
QUALITY - VARIETY FRESHNESS "Chesterfield" "Cynthia Sweets" "Tru Value"
"Foss Quality"
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*Extd. 1841.
Tel. 20016.
THE RELIANCE WE PLACE IN THE QUALITY OF OUR
PIANOS IS INDICATED BY THE FACT THAT EVERY
INSTRUMENT WE MANUFACTURE BEARS OUR OWN
NAME.
THE FIRST "MOUTRIE" PIANO WAS MANUFACTURED
OVER SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: THE "MOUTRIE"
OF TO-DAY COMBINES EVERY MODERN IMPROVE. MENT IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, PLUS THE
BENEFIT OF OUR EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF LOCAL
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
A "MOUTRIE" IS YOUR SAFEST INVESTMENT, THEY
ARE SOLD ON THE EASIEST OF TERMS, AND ARE BUILT TO GIVE A LIFETIME OF SERVICE.
May we quote you?
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These Names Make News
Criminals Hated This Man Master Of "Big Five."
New King is Grand Master Manon of Scotland.
A
MAN who earned the undying hatred of the criminal classes in England, passed through Hongkong this week, on the
vestigation Department nt Scotland Yard. Twice married, his second wife is his former secretary.
His Hobby-
Looking Around
an
SKIMMING the cream
from life In unviably carefree manner, is the Hon. R. A. G. Baird who sails from Hongkong to-morrow in a small yacht,`bound with two companions for Australia,
Soldier, avintor, film actor and chiefly adventurer, Baird has carried. his fun all over the world. Born in Scotland, the son of Lord Stonehaven, he went to Eton and Sandhurst, joined the Gordon Highlanders and saw service on Empire aut- posts.
Hongkong Telegraph. Blue Funnel liner Hector. Viceroy. Big gume shooting in
Saturday, December 12, 1930.
He was Sir Trevor Bigham, K.B.E., C.B., for four years Deputy Commissioner of A TRIUMPH FOR
Metropolitan Police in Lon- CONSTITUTIONALISM|don and one of the brains
behind the "Big Five."
There were moments in the crisis which arose over King Edward's decision to contract a | marriage against which his Ministers advised him when a belief prevailed in some quarters that undue pressure was being brought on the young monarch by the Prime Minister. Any such idea has now been once and for all dispelled by the frank and unambiguous statement which Mr. Baldwin made in his abdication announcement in the House of Commons. It is, in- deed, clear that, throughout the painful conversations which the Premier had with His Majesty,
One of the few men who really acclimatised" themselves to the criminal psychology the better to be able to defeat it, Sir Trevor played a big part in introducing new attacks on Bubversive elements in the world's greatest He saw the introduction of city before he retired in 1924,
every art and science to police work, including the wireless van, the Flying Squad and the band of highly trained specialists whose remarkable successes and them the sobriquet of the "Big mysterious identities, earned
Five."
When big cases broke and threatened to join the host of unsolvable crimes which cumulated with the new era of
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In India he saw the rough side on the frontier, and the fórmal society life of the Court ag Aide-de-Camp to the Somaliland and Abyssinia helped to pass away the time till he went to Egypt as a pilot in the Royal Air Force before rejoin- ing his old regiment at Malta.
Then he went to Australia and was A.D.C: to Sir A. Hoare Ruthven, Governor of South
He made the wickets fly.
for Hongkong, the Indies, Aus- tralia and London. Wickets Were
Too Wide
JNPLAYABLE Allen and trickster Voce were responsible for Australia's great upset in the first Test match at Brisbane. Of Allen it can rightly be said that he play. ed a Captain's innings. Scored 35 and 68, took 3 wickets for 71. and for 36.
Australians obtained a crumb of satisfaction from the fact that he was born in 1902 in Sydney where his uncle was head of the oldest legal firm. Allen played at Eton, won his Blue at Cambridge and, as a freshman there, took nine wickets against Oxford, Scored 130 runs for Gentlemen against Players, join- ed Middlesex and did sterling work with both bat and ball.
difficult task not only with studied the data personally, circumspection, but in a manner decided on the course to pursue which heightens his reputation and then called in the "Big Five" statesman. Even Mr. to follow out the lines he had Winston Churchill, who had dictated. In this way Sirsacht and the wide-seas-for-the four. This year he captained
ny
was
figured prominently amongst the associated with the prevention Trevor's name became more erities of the Premier during of crime than that of the actual the period of suspense, was com- detectives whose names were pelled, by the facts revealed, to carefully concealed from the declure to the House of Commons public, and, as right hand man, his conviction that the decision of the Commissioner, Lord was taken by King Edward. Byng, wrongdoers acquired a freely, voluntarily and spon- thorough respect and fear of taneously, in his own time and him. way. From an even more un-
Frank Trevor Roger Bigham expected quarter support for Mr. was born in 1876, educated at Baldwin was forthcoming when Eton and Magdalen College, Mr. James Maxton, the extreme second son of the 1st Viscount Leftist, paid a warm tribute to Mersey; became a barrister in the manner in which the Premier 1901. Threw up the law to had discharged a task of the study criminology and utmost difficulty, adding that appointed Chief Constable in the decision made was in strict the Metropolitan Police, later accordance with constitutional Assistant Commissioner, and principles. It can, indeed, he then head of the Criminal In- said that the Prime Minister has come out of this crisis, which nt one time threatened to cause the resignation of the Govern- ment, with his prestige higher than ever before in his career. No-one can have read his speech without being conscious of the extreme emotion which he felt, and the very real sympathy shown him by all parties in-the House must have been some recompense to him for the trying experiences which he was cor- Ipelled to undergo.. Two further points of importance emerge from the historic sitting of Parliament. The first is that, a time of crisis, party differences are forgotten; the second, that although there is a change of sovereign, the Throne itself atands as firm as ever. In this latter connection, it is moving to read of the manner in which the people as a whole are domonstrating their loyalty to the new King. Already thoy have taken him to their hearts. The Crown and all that It stands for remain unshaken. The days ahead may be faced with high hope and confidence in the future stability of the Throne and the Empire.
in
Hon. It. A. G. Baird, Australia. At the same, time his father, Lord Stonehaven, was Governor General.
Home in England after six, years absence, he was there only three weeks before going off to Amerien. He acted in several films by Twentieth Century-Fox and was taking part in the production of Lloyds' of London when he felt the urge to travel again. ·
He came by
ship as far as Shanghai and then bought a life-boat from the Mindaroo steamer which was in the breakers' hands, had it fitted up as a yacht with an emergency motor bus engine, and set out with two companions
acceptance of the dignity of Grand Master Mason of Scot-" land. The Duke's installation in this high office was aranged to take place at the end of Novem.. ber.
In accepting the office the King was following in the foot- steps of several heirs-presump- tive to the English throne.
A curious position now arises. The then Duke of York accepted the office because the Sovereign, then his brother, would natural- ly not actively participate in Freemasonry but consented to be Patron of the Scottish craft.. I wonder if the King will now have to relinguish the office and whether it will be taken up by the Duke of Gloucester,
Millions Will Pray
For Him
from
PRAYERS have gone up millions of Catholics all over the world this. week to restore to health the Holy Father, Pope Pius XI, baptised Ambrogio Domieno Achille Ratti, born in 1857 in Desio, near Milan.
At the age of 79; the two hundred and sixty-first successor of the First Pontiff, St. Peter, can claim to have carried the Vatican through one of the most quickening periods of its exist- ence with signal success. The history of the Papacy is a thread of alternate scintillation and dullness through the centuries but, under the leadership of the present Pope, offspring of a family of small silk operatives, it has taken unprecedented steps to modernise with a changing world.
Beloved Pópe. Plus XI negotiated the Lateran Trenty and Concordat by, which he re- covered the temporal power lost in 1870 and secured release from virtual Imprisonment in the Vatican. He denounced Fascism for its acts of violence against Catholics but, after reconcilia- tion with Mussolini, gave per- mission for children of Catholics
join the organisation.
A member of Jardine's Test side which visited Australia in 1932, he took 21 wickets in five matches of which England wonFrancaise, French Royalist
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the team which beat the All- India visitors.
King and Master
Mason
The new King celebrates his 41st birthday on Monday, a fit- ting occasion to mark the high honours that have fallen na turally on his shoulders through the trying crisis that has now ended.
Though two of his brothers have been to Hongkong, includ- ing Edward VIII; George VI is. known to most of us here chiefly through the medium of the Press. Now he will be nearer to local Masons by reason of his
BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts
China's new tax on incomes will
add to people's outgoinga,
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Au astrologer says he sees, in the skies, good times for every body. But it looks as if we shall have to wait to get there before we have them...
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Chinese Press reports state that
"Goose flesh in stated to be better than that of duck. After an early morning swim the other day, we doubt it.
O ☐ Hongkong young men are said to be impatient with the old buffera. In the permanent way.
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The man charged with scraping
auspicious movements have been gold-leaf from a sign-board, hoped
noticed on the Min River. Pro- to profit from hoarding.
bably merely seasonable Min spics!
..
Auntie. Caustic thought, that a cabaret referred to a full taxicab rank.
In the interests of national economy, a "Simple Dinner Move- ment has been launched in Nan king. This looks like hitting boon
IR. Commodore A. W. Tedder, newly appointed to the com- mand of the Royal Air Force in the Far East. He left Hongkong yeater- day by the Imperial Airways liner. Derado on which he paid a Brin below the bell. visit to this section of his command. During the War he served on the Western Front and was in command of No.. 207 (Bomber) at Burton New ton, Norfolk. In 1922 he (was "at tracted at the Digby Training School Constantinople and since has Ins
and R.A.F. Staff College.
An item of social, advies says
W Synthetic mistletoe has now
produced, Kissing willi probably be just as genuine, though.
that onions should not be taken A writer gaya it is impossible you're going to take them, of when you bum the candle at both before dancing. Depends whore to "save" daylight. Especially
course.
ends.
Daringly, he placed a ban on Catholic reading of Action
newspaper, because its writers placed politics before religion. Incidentally, he designated St. Francis of Sales as the patron saint of Catholic journalists.
Pope Pius has concluded pontificate concordats, with Poland and Bavaria. In
successive Encyclicals, he has condemned birth-control, com- divorce, and sterilisation of the panionate and mixed marringes,
unfit. No one could be a good Catholic and a true Socialist, he said.
As truly a man of the times ns could be consistent with his high office, Pius XI was the first Pope to leave the Vatican for 70 years in 1929, the first to give ' n press interview and to speak, over the air. Despite his break-
-Pape Plus, XI: is a breaker of
convention.
Ing with tradition, he has kept the love of his subjects and the dignity of the Church on a high plane.
"Pop" Parkør
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