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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 (Edmec) 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 fories were operat-

politien with by ing uninterfered

conditions antagonism,

economic would go on improving for another with some but nol 26 very serious recession."

Mr. G. D. II. Cole, the economist, made this prophecy when speaking at a Rotary Club Juncheon held at the Connaught Rooms in London last month.

If one looked at the political pros- perts over the world as a whole to- day, he said, it was extraordinarily

These were Items in wills of peti- tioning creditors and a Brm of cos tumiers and, milliners.

Another Item, sald Lady Owen, was £000 for inserting two sleeves in a coat which had cost £1,000.

"GROSSLY OVERCHARGED"

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

"

Mr. Ashe Lincoln (appearing for Lady Owen): "You protested that you had been grossly overcharged?"

"Absolutely.' was the reply.

She had, she said, protested at the. charges for the coat sleeves, the handkerchiefs end at the amount of the milliner's account, which, she de- jelared, was "grossly expngtrated.”

WOULD HAVE DEFENDED Ind she known she was being sued

the petitioning creditors she would have defended the proceedings.

diflicult to find anything with which

Lady Owen, described as a widow, one could be satisfied. "It we could late of Devonport Street, Hyde Park, Isolate the economic prospect from showed in her statement of affairs the political prospect, and economic abilities of £9,417, of which £7,451 forces could have free play, then, he is expected to rank, and net assels thought, most of them would expect | £2,787. that at hi

rate for a little while alwod things would go on improving. WORLD RECOVERY

it

£11,000 RAISED ON JEWELS

In reply to Mr. Ashe Lincoln, Lady Owen said that

she nt one time possessed £00,000 worth of jewellery, but she had pawned the greater pari of it.

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

Foreign Gold Behind

Crisis the Palestine

SIR R. STORRS The jewellery realised £10,000 in pawn, and she had maid £5,000 in-

TALK OF "POWDER terest.

MAGAZINE”

He did not think, however, would carry as on to new heights of not think, for prosperity. He did example, that any recovery would bring us near the abolition of un- employment, but if

one rckoned recovery in the terms of the average level of profit in industry or

Some jewellery was sold for £3,- average

real of lovel then the recovery had undoubtedly 800, and tickets for the remainder gone a long way already, and we were in the hands of the Trustce, and could expect that it would proceed she undertook to take steps to assist some distance further still,

wages,

It was perfectly clear that no re- covery to which we could look with confidence would any degree of

either reduce unemployment to any thing like the level before the War or make any considerable impression on the economie problem of the de- pressed areas. Capitalism in this country had shown very great tough- ness and a very great power of re- from the blow dealt it in the covery from years 1929-31.

We really important fact was that economic forces were not operating -and that we could not reckon -alone-a

nt all in terms of what was going to happen economically without taking into account the political situation in Europe and the rest of the world.

him.

The examination was concluded.

New Airscrew

IMPORTANT BRITISH

INVENTION

"Government Must Act On Commission's Findings"

strike zine." and anything like might have very serious results without any notice whatsoever.

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

“It was assumed, rather by pro- pagandists, that the strike was nut spontaneous; that it was financed 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 it going

certain extent.

SIR RONALD STORKS, who spent nine years in Palestine, first as Military Governor of Jerusalem and afterwards as Civil Governor of

Judaeu, Jerusalem and

recently described Palestine as a "permanent powder magazine."

country." He was addressing members of the Unionist Canvassing Corps at Caxton

A new British "constant speed" airscrew has passed three Air Minis- try type tests successfully and if it fully Its promise it will have a Hall pronounced effect in "stepping up" performance of aeroplanes,

A "constant speed" alrscrew re- sembles an infinitely variable gear in It was difficult to know in the con- revolutions to remain at the most a motor-car; it permits the engine fusion of the world altuation exactly favourable figure, what one ought to think. One point

He continued:

Д

of

10

**

into "A good deal of gold went

from Palestine

neighbouring and even, perhaps, one more remote

Illustrating the feeling between few and Arab, Sir Ronald said: "I had not been long in Jerusalem before I found the Zionists there saying that the Governor was a little bit too sympathetic to the Arabs.

Sir. Ronald said he regarded it as "of paramount importance" that whatever decisions the Royal Com-

A DIFFICULT TASK mission on Palestine reached, should

when the be implemented by the Government Commission came: home.

"At the same time if one implc- "What would have deplorable mented a decision or put up certain of view was "if we can possibly When the aeroplane climbs as a effect out there would be for the notices in Hebrew the Arabs were keep out of world affairs, do so, and car goes up hill the airscrew auto- Commission to make recommenda- pretty quickly turning round and let the rest of the world go to thematically sets its bindes to a finer tions and then for these recommenda-saying: Here is the Governor who, devit, und hope that in due time re-pitch and so enables the engine to tlons to be whittled down, either by we thought, was one of us who has

sold himself to

to the Jews." covery will come."

A good deal keep up its speed and avold Inbour-our Government or the League Between those conflicting forces, could be said for it.

ing. When the aeroplane flies level Nations.

criticism in and with

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

was a dimeuli task war was inevitable, he did not he coarser pitch to keep the engine from go from serious to grave,"

task out there. "What should be our Sir Ronald dealt with the points is obvious that we cannot give up the lieve it was too late now to stop this racing, while obtaining the greatest

our atuitude? IL drift of war although it was far possible speed from the aeroplane. of view of both Jew and Arab and more so than it was a year ago. A

mandate over Palestine. With that said that he thought mistakes, had been made by all parties

trust goes defçutist attitude was fundamentally

the Balfour Declaration, wrong and morally wrong. We had

handling of the Arab position. The the Balfour Declaration goes a cer- in the which is incorporated in It, and with got to try to stop war from breaking

Arabs themselves, when they began out in Europe. Once warfare started

to lose confidence, undoubtedly com-tain degree of emigration, too. In my opinion, we should continue in Europe then it would spread with

mitted serious crimes it was not 100 undeterred by objectors and un- extraordinary of the world rapidity round the rest types of variable pitch" airacrews much to call them atrocities.

hustled by those who wish us to pour In emigrants faster than we desire."

It gives a good take off, high top speed, excellent fuel economy, and good performance at heights.

Both the "constant speed" and the controllable pitch" airscrews are

"If we want to rebuild the ideals must be set by the pilot and usually which lie behind collective security has only two positions.

we have got to positive action."

The

thing as a peaceful strike.

"When you got the Arabs out in the street with nothing to do and the of H. 5. peasants taken away from the

crops

FOR CHINESE American Mail Line Liable

For Heavy Fine If Men Get Ashore

The "controllable

ble pitch" nirscrew

DEMANDS NOT ANSWERED

The "con- rebuild them by stant speed" sirscrew can, between demands for inquiry and, perhaps, When they saw that their frequent wide limits, take up any position. adjustment of the situation, for NO PLEASURE

·POOL SECURITY

Moreover, this new airscrew is guarantees that they would not even- capable of a certain amount of over-tually be flooded out and submerged, The only thing to replace it is riding control by the pilot. something different

were not answered, then there came to collective

Perhaps the most remarkable thing what he believed was intended to be security actual pool security. It about the airscrew, however, is that a peaceful strike. we wanted to go forward we had got it is exceptionally light for the type. "But in Palestine there is no such| to go forward on the basis of pool- One for an engine giving 1,000 brake ing military forces of all those horse-power weighs only 331ib. Powers who were prepared to come airscrew has three blades. into collective agreement in Euro-

The patenis are those pean affairs. It must be made per- Hele-Shaw, and the airscrew was there were incidents which led to the

clear that we were not stand-tried by the Gloster company as long tragic events we certain in my nine-worth $1.000 apiece to the. fectly ing for the status quo and that we ago as July, 1031,

A moody band of 180 Chinese were not attempting to build up an types tended to "hunt" in speed.

"I was never organisation to take the

years there that if someone in those American Mail Line fished for of In 1934 the Air Ministry asked the narrow streets dropped an empty sharks from port holes of three -shattered League of Nation Bristol i

that basis we could say to the Fascist development work, with the result minules the

company to undertake further petrol tin or if a horse bolted in Ave passenger liners at Smith Cove's Powers we are offering you some that three official type tests of 30 started that a massacre is on' and Pier 41 to-day, while they con- thing in the nature of

deal" hours each square

have been completed anything might happen. The great need

timued their enforced vacation was that other successfully. countries should know where Great

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

Belligerent Fowls

the

On

Wear Tin Lens

For Eye Armour

Conneaut, O., Dec. 31.

Blinkers for chickens the latest fod. On the farm of Theodore Wir-

but the earlier

seen.

news would not be

Ex-Kaiser's Stepdaughter Has 5-Day Engagement

Berlin, Dec. 21. PRINCESS HERMINE VON SCHONICH.CAROLATH, - twenty-six-year-old stepdaughter of the ex-Kaiser, is to marry Herr Hugo Hartung, son of a Dusseldorf industrialist, 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...

Vote Secretary, Herr Georg Wunder

ch. But her mother Intervened and she returned to Doorn.

A church ceremony will be held later at Shabor Castle, the Silesian

The spectacles prevent the fowls home of Princess Hermine's family. from seeing straight ahead and are designed to reduce their fighting Princess Hermine, who is known to ability as well as to protect their friends as Princess Carmo, trequently the ex-Kalser, They were married eyes in barnyard battles,

visits the ex-Kalser at Doom.

Princess Hermine, mother of Prin- cess Carmo, is, the second wife of

in 1922.

Seattle, Dec. 25.

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

The Chinese are cabin boys 'and walters on the vessels, interned. aboard the ships because of immi-

leave

ishorn 2 Laws which bar them from

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

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

The other day, a Chinese aboard the Jackson caught a mud shark It was gaffed aboard and the ship- maten hud touch of variety added to their fare soup of shark fins, a Chinese delicacy,

of Mukden

Death Of Famous Medical Missionary

PIONEERING IN MANCHURIA

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

Dugold Christie was born in 1855 nt Kingshouse, near Glencoe, in Argyllshire. At the

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age of 19 he was caught up in 16 only Travelling Rugs

the tide of revivalism which

swept Scotland after the visit

of Mr. Moody. That was in

1874, and having taken a

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medical degree in Edinburgh, 240 yds. Heavy Bleached Damask

he went to Manchuria as the

poineer medical missionary of 300 yds. Beautiful Curtain Nets.

$2500

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the United Presbyterian Church.

He was appointed to the Muk-72 only Honeycomb Towels 28′′X54" $100

cach

den Medical Mission in 1882,

During a period of forty years Dr.

Christie, of Mukden, accomplished a Cotton Huckaback Towels 36"X18" . work as a medical missionary in

$100

each

China which earned for him as much

countrymen, Some years ago Dr.

cial class as it did among his own

distinction among the Chinese of Linen Huckaback Towels 34"X18" ..

$1.25

each

$100

•

cach

work In Ita carlier years. when it had

$395 $200

dox.

kot.

2

for

$1

40 cts.

But Dr.

Christie himself told the story of the 600 only Plain Hemmed Pillow Slips, to fight its way so strenuously against 60 doz. only Twill Kitchen Cloths. the feeling long engendered in China

devils," towards "foreign Christle not only won the love and esteem of the thousands of patients who enjoyed the benefit of his medi- fidence of officials high in authority by the manner in which he went about his work of healing.

end skill; he rapidly gained the con-

THE BLACK, DEATH

40 only Cork Tablemat Sets

70 only Window Cleaning Mops

Coir Broom Heads (no handie)

$100

ca.

There were stirring times in China 60 doz. only Plain Halfpint Tumblers $100 dor.

times

within ten necessary that and children

during Dr. Christie's long connection with it. Three years it was found all foreign women should leave Mukden.

On these occasions he himself had experiences, but the Perdon free healing doctor," as 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.

the

It was not only his medical work, however, that secured Dr. Christie and his colleagues the admiration of

Chinese. the

He rendered them great service at Limes when Hed Cross work became necessary, while during

*visitation of the pneumonic form of plague he was officially asked to become Honorary Medlent Adviser to the Government. As such, he had much to do with the organisation of the measures re- quired to

black death." "the stay On his resignation in 1923, on ac- count of ill-health, the Foreign Mis- slon Committee of the United Free Church adopted a resolution, placing on record its sense 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

Bel University

its seal upon Dr. Christie's work by recognising the degree of the Mukden Medical and allowing graduates of the College to study in Edinburgh and take the higher diplomas which are granted here,

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

In 1925 his Chinese friends un- outside the veiled a bust of him 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 ceremonies, Dr. Wang, Army head of the Manchurian 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 and the Precious

the Star, Chinese Republican

Order

of the Bountiful Harvest, the Japanese Order of the Patriotic League, and the Russian Imperial Eagics.

Dr. Christie's writings includo Ten Years In Manchuria, The Mukden Hospital, and Thirty Years In Muk

den.

In 1982 appeared an account of bla life, written by his second wife, who survives him, and who, before her marriage, in 1802, was Miss Inglis, daughter of the Rev. J. Inglia, a Johnstone minister, and niece. of Mr. Inglis, of Messrs. Gall Inglis, the publisher. His first wife, whom he married in 1002, was a daughter of the Into Bir. William Smith.

Dr. Christle leave three,

Gone, Mr. J. Malcolm Christic, FRCS.Ed.; Mr. William F. Christie, M.D.; and Mr. R. V. Christie, M.B., C.M. A fourth son, Mr. D. Christie, was killed in Meso- potamia during the Great War. Dr. Christie is also survived by throa daughters, all of whom are married."

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