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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1937.

£200 BATHING COSTUME Christie

SHOWN IN COURT

AS PROTEST

£80,000 Jewels Pawned by Lady (Edmee) Owen HOLDING up a bathing costume in the London Bank-

ruptcy Court Lady (Edmee) Owen, who appeared for her further public examination, said she was charged £200 for it.

She also showed a handkerchief, and said she had been charged £42 for ten handkerchiefs like it.

The Outlook for

Europe

POLITICS VERSUS

ECONOMICS

Mr. G. D. H. Cole And War Cloud

"If economic forces were operat

with by political ing uninterfered

conditions antagonism, economic would go on improving for another year with some but not serious recession."

12 Very

These were Items in wills of peti- tioning creditors and a firm of cos- tumiera and milliners.

Another Item, said Lady Owen, was £600 for inserting two sleeves in a cont which had cost £1,000.

"GROSSLY OVERCHARGED"

She said she had previously had a dispute with the petitioners out a bill, and, informed them that the amount she had paid on account was enough and that they had over- charged,

you

Mr. Ashe Lin In (appearing for Lady Owen): ou protested" that

had been grossly overcharged?" "Absolutely," was the reply, She had, she said, protested at the chuurges for the enat sleeves, the handkerchiefs and at the amount of the milliner's account, which, she de

Mr. G. D. H. Cole, the economist, made this prophecy when speakingclared, was "grossly exaggerated." at Rotary Club luncheon held at the Connaught Rooms in London

last month.

WOULD HAVE DEFENDED

Hnd she known she was being sued have defended the proceedings.

If one looked at the political prosby the petitioning creditors she would pects over the world as a whole day, he said. It whs extraordinarily difficult to find anything with which one could be satisfied. If we could Isolate the economic prospect from the political prospect, und economic forces could have free play, then, he thought, most of them would expect | that at any rate for u little while abead things would go on Improving.

WORLD RECOVERY

un-

Lady Owen, described as a widow, late of Devonport Street, Hyde Park, showed in her statement of affaira abilities of £9,417, of which £7,451 is expected to rank, und net assets £2,787.

£11,000 RAISED ON JEWELS

In reply to Mr. Ashe Lincoln, Lady Owen said that at one time she possessed £80,000 worth of jewellery, but she had pawned the greater part of it.

He did not thlok, however, would carry us on to new heights of not think, for prosperity. He did example, that any recovery would bring us near the abolition of

The Jewellery realised £10,000 in 12 one employment, but

reckoned pawn, and she had pald £5,000 in-

average terest. recovery in the terms of the ave level of profit in industry or the

level

real

Some jewellery was sold for £3,- then the recovery had undoubtedly 900, and tickets for the remainder long way already, and we were in the hands of the Trustee, and could expect that it would proceed she undertook to take steps to assist some distance further still.

Average

gone a

of

wages,

It was perfectly clear that no re- covery to which we could look with any degree of confidence would either reduce unemployment to any- thing like the level before the War or make any considerable impression the economie problem of the de- pressed areas. Cupitalism in this country had shown very great tough- ness and a very great power of re- covery from the blow dealt it in the years 1020-31.

on

him.

The examination was concluded.

New Airscrew

IMPORTANT BRITISH

INVENTION

speed"

A new British "constant airscrew has passed three Air Minis-

type tests successfully and if it fulls Its promise it will have Pronounced effect in "stepping up" performance of acroplanes.

The dark has fallen and the lights are lighted in all houses. The long

Foreign

winter nights begin.

Gold Behind

the Palestine Crisis

SIR R. STORRS TALK OF "POWDER MAGAZINE”

"Government Must Act On Commission's Findings"

|zine," and anything like a strikke might have very serious results

without any notice whatsoever.

11 "They started this strike, and developed into what we have seen. For six months they kept it up.

"It was assumed,'railer by pro- pagandists, that the strike was not spontaneous; that it was Onanced by foreign Governments,

"I have.not the least doubt that they did have the support of some

Governments --- certainly

three whom I could but will not name did keep going to certain extent.

1

SIR RONALD STORRS, who spent nine years In Palestine, first as Military Governor of Jerusalem and afterwards Us Civil Governor of Jerusalem and Judaca. recently

"A good dent of gold went described Palestine as a "permanent | Palestine from neighbouring powder magazine."

more remole even, perhaps, one country."

He was addressing members of the Unionist Canvassing Corps at Caxton

all.

The really important fact was that economic forces were not operating

Sir Ronald said he regarded it as alone and that we could not reckon at all in terms of what was going to

"of paramount importance"". that happen economically without taking

A "constant speed" nirscrew re-whatever decisions the Royal Com- into account the political situation in Europe and the rest of the world,sembles an infinitely variable gear in mission on Palestine reached, should motor-car: it permits the engine be implemented by the Government revolutions to remain at the most favourable figure.

home.

Into and

Illustrating the feeling between Jew and Arab, Sir Ronald said: "I

had not been long in Jerusalem before I found the Zionists there saying that the Governor was_n___Jiftle___&l_____too___ sympathetic to the Arabs.

were

A DIFFICULT TASK It was difficult to know in the con-

con

when the Commission came

"At the same time if one implc- fusion of the world situation exactly

He continued: what one ought to think. One point

What would have a deplorable mented a decision or put up certain "If we can possibly of view was:

When the aeroplane climbs-as a effect out there would be for the notices in Hebrew the Araba keep out of world affairs, do so, and car goes up hill-the airscrew auto Commission to make recommenda- pretty quickly turning round let the rest of the world go to thematically sets its blades to a finer tions and then for these recommenda-saying: 'Here is the Governor who, thought, was one of us who has devil, and hope thot in due time re-pitch and so enables the engine to lions to be whittled down, either by covery will come." A good deal keep up its speed and avoid labour-

ur- our Government or the League of sold himself to the

could be said for it.

Ing. When the aeroplane flics level Nations.

we

and

Between those forces.

As to the view that a European it automatically sets its blades to a "If it happens, I think results will and with criticism in England, It

war was inevitable, he did not he coarser pitch to keep the engine from lieve it was too late now to stop this racing, while obtaining the greatest drift of war although it was for possible speed from the aeroplane. more so than it was a year ago. A defcutist attitude was fundamentally It gives a good take off, high top wrong and morally wrong. We had speed, excellent fuel economy, and got to try to stop war from breaking good performance at heights. out in Europe. Once warfare started in Europe then it would spread with extraordinary rapidity round the rest of the world,

wa

a difficult task out there, "What should be our attitude?

II

undeterred by objectors and un- hustled by those who wish us to pour In emigrants foster than we desire."

go from serious to grave."

Sir Ranald dealt with the points Es obvious that we of view of both Jew and Arob and mandate over Palestine. With that that we cannot give up the said that he thought mistakes had trust goes the Balfour Declaration, been made by all parties in the whi handling of the Arab position. The which is Incorporated in it, and with Araba themselves, when they began the Balfour Declaration goes a cer- tain degree of emigration, too. In "controllable plich" airscrews are much to call them atrocities.

to lose confidence, undoubtedly com- Both the "constant speed" and the mitted serious crimes. It was not too my opinion, we should continue types of "variable pitch" airscrews, The "controllable pitch" ulrscrew

DEMANDS NOT ANSWERED ' When they saw that their frequent can, between demands for inquiry and, perhaps, wide limits, take up any position. adjustment of the situation, for NO

Moreover, this now airscrew is guarantees that they would not even- riding control by the pilot. capable of a certain amount of over- tually be flooded out and submerged, were not answered then there came what, he believed was intended to be a peaceful strike.

"If we want to rebuild the ideals must be set by the pilot and usually which lie behind collective security has only two we have got to rebuild them positive action.'

by stant speed" alrscrew. The "con-

POOL SECURITY The only thing to replace it is something different to collective security-actual pool security. If about the airscrew, however, is that Perhaps the most remarkable thing we wanted to go forward we had got it is exceptionally light for the type. to go forward on the basis of pool- One for an engine giving 1,000 brake ing milltary forces of all those horse-power weighs only 331lb. The

The paten

patents are those

PLEASURE

FOR CHINESE American Mail Line Liable

"But in Palestine there is no such thing as a peaceful strike.

For Heavy Fine If Men

Powers who were prepared to come airscrew has three blades.

"When you got the Arabs out in

Get Ashore into collective agreement la Euro-

the street

with nothing to do and the pean affairs. It must be made per- Hele-Shaw, and the airscrew was there were incidents which led to the of H. S. peasants faken away from the crops

Seattle, Dec. 25. fectly clear that we were not atand- tried by the Gloster company as long tragic events we have seen.

A moody band of 180 Chinese ing for the status quo and that we ago as July, 1931, but the earlier "I was never certain in my nine-worth $1,000 aplece to the were not attempting to build up an types tended to "hunt" in speed. organisation to take the place of

of the

years there that if someone in those American Mail Line- fished for In 1934 the Air Ministry asked the narrow streets dropped an empty sharks from port holes of three shattered League of Nations. On Bristol company to undertake further petrol tin or if a horse bolted in five that basis we could say to the Fascist development work, with the result minutes the Powers "we are offering you some-that three official type tests of 50 stafted that a massacre is on' and Pier 41 to-day, while they con

would not be passenger liners at Smith Cove's thing in the nature of a square deal." hours each have been completed anything might happen.

The great need was that

tinued their enforced vacation other successfully, countries should know where Great

"It is a permanent powder maga without shore leave. Britain stood to-day. Our Govern- ment did not know what it wanted, neither did his party.

Belligerent Fowls

Wear Tin Lens

For Eye Armour

Conneaut, O., Dec. 31.

news

Ex-Kaiser's Stepdaughter Has 5-Day Engagement

PRINCESS HERMINE

Berlin, Dec. 21. VON SCHONICH-CÁROLATH, twenty-six-year-old stepdaughter of the ex-Kaiser, is to marry Herr Hugo Hartung, son of a Dusseldorf. industrialiat, Blinkers for chickens the latest fad. On the farm of Theodore Wir-

on Wednesday. The engagement was announced last Friday. tanen, near here, 1,500 white leg- They will be wed at a Berlin Some time ago it was reported that horns are wearing tin spectacles. register office. Shaped like ordinary eyeglasses, the

she was to marry her mother's pri- lens are of opaque metal.

A church ceremony will be held vate Secretary, Herr Georg Wunder- The spectacles prevent the fowls later at Shabor Castle, the Sllesiarch. But her mother Intervened and from seeing straight ahead and are home of Princess Hermine's family.

The liners are the strike-bound Président Jefferson, President Jack- son and the President Grant.

The Chinese are cabin boys and. waiters on the vessels, Intermed aboard the ships because of immi-. gration laws which bar them from shore leave,

The Chinese are closely watched by company guards, because. If one escapes it means à $1,000 fine assess-. ed against the ship.

What to do during the long days and nights of the strike has presented a problem to the Orientals. -Tiring of Chinese games, some have rigged up poles and lines and fished for shiners through port holes.

The other day a Chinese aboard the Jackson caught a mud shark. designed to reduce their fighting Princess Mermine, who is known to cess Carmo, is the second wife of mates bad

Princess Hermine, mother of Prin- It was gaffed aboard and the ship- ability on well as to protect their friends as Frincess Carmo, frequently the ex-Kaifer. They were married to their fare soup of shark fins, a touch of variety added eyes in barnyard battles.

visits the ex-Kaiser at Doorn,

in 1922,

sho returned Doorn.

Chinese delicacy.

of Mukden

Death Of · Famous Medicai Missionary

PIONEERING IN MANCHURIA

Dr. Dugold Christie, C.M.G. F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Edin; the famous medical missionary known a8 "Christie of Mukden," died this month at his residence, 12 Dick Place, Edinbourgh, after an illness lasting about a week.

Dugold Christic was born in 1865. at Kingshouse, 'near* Glencoe, in Argyllshire. At the

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work as medical missionary In China which earned for him as much distinction among the Chinese om- clal class as it did among his own countrymen. Some years ago Dr. Christic himself told the story of the work in its carller years, when it had

to fight its way so strenuously against China the feeling long engendered in towards "foreign devils." But Dr, Christle not only won the love and esteem of the thousands of patients who enjoyed the benefit of his medi-

cal skil; he rapidly gained the con-

fidence of officials high in authority by the manner In which he went about his work of healing.

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during Dr. Christie's long connection with it. Three

timies within ten years it was found necessary that women and children all foreign should leave Mukden.

On these occasions he himself had but the experiences, perilous "Mukden free-healing doctor," na he came to be styled, showed himself as courageous as he was kindly, and during the Russo-Japanese War he proved equal to the emergency when three Japanese scouts levelled their rifles at him within a distance of a few yards.

It was not only his medical work, however, that secured Dr. Christie and his colleagues the admiration of the Chinese. He rendered them great service at times when Red white Cross work became

necessary, during the visitation of the pneumonic form of plague he was officially asked to become Honorary Medical Adviser to the Government. As such, he had-much-to-do-with- the

organisation of the quired to "the black

On his resignation in 1923, on ac- count of ill-health, the Foreign Mis- sion Committee of the United Free Church adopted 14 resolution, placing

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on record its scase of the greatness of the work which Dr. Christie had ac- complished during his forty years' service in Manchuria.

UNIVERSITY RECOGNITION

In the summer of 1934, Edinburgh University

its seal upon Dr. Christie's work by recognising the Mukden Medical degree of the College, and

and allowing graduates of the College to study in Edinburgh and take the higher diplomas which

are granted here.

Since his retirement Dr. Christio had lived in Edinburgh, but kept in close touch with his friends in China. Among these he numbered the son of Chang Teo-lin, the Manchurian tuchun.

In 1925 his Chinese friends un- velled a bust of him outside the Mukden Medical College. It was the work of Mr. Percy Portsmouth, F.S.A. then-Director of Sculpture in the Edinburgh College of Art. The master of the ceremonica, Dr. Wang, head of the Manchurian Army Medical Service, was also an old pupil of the doctor.

FOREIGN DECORATIONS

A distinction conferred on. Dr. Christie was a decoration awarded to him by the Emperor of China for his medical services to the Chinese troops during the war with Japan. His decorations included the Imperial Chinese

Orders of the Double Dragon the Precious

Star,

the of Order Chinese Republic

the Bountiful

the Japancre Order of the Patriotic League, and the Russian Imperial Eagles.

and

Dr. Christie's writings include Ten Years In Manchuria, The Mukden Hospital, and Thirty Years in Muk- den.

In 1932 appeared an account of his lite, written by his second wlie, who survives him, and who, before her marriage, in 1002, was Miss Inglis, daughter of the Rov. J. Ingils, Johnstone minister, and a niece of Mr. Inglis,

Gall of Messrs. Inglis, the publisher. His first wife, whom he married in 1882, was a Willlanz daughter of the late Mr. Smith.

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Dr. Christio leave three sons, Mr. J. Malcolm Christie, F.R.C.S.EL.; Mr. William F. Christie, M.D.; and Mr. R. V. Chrisle, M.B., C.M. A fourth son, Mr. D. Christle, was killed in Meso- potamia during the Great War. Dr. Christle is also survived by three daughters, all of whom are married.

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