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To-day's Poem. -
TUESDAY APRIL 8 1924
(Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred.)
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engendered in the eyes, With gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring fancy's knell:
Ding, dong, bell.
---Shakspeare.
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WEATHER CALENDAR.
APRIL, 8.
MURDER TRIALS.
FRESENT JURY SYSTEM CRITICISED.
MAJORITY VOTE URGED.
From a correspondent signing himself "Justice" we have receiv ed a letter criticising the verdict in the Lantao murder trial and offering some observations about the jury'system,
"Justice" seeks to prove that the woman was wrongly convicted, but as his remarks involve charges against persons whose
The one outstanding feature of tipping in, we believe, the fact that all employees share in the total amount of tips which are received; and this, system is strictly observed on the old Socialistic, theory of share and share alike. It is safe to say that the system will never be abolished 1798. A pleasant warm morning, integrity was uphold by the court
at least not whilst servants are but a showery day......they can hardly be published..
Commenting The Spring still advancing efficient and patrons are pleased.
the jury vory slowly. The horse-system, "Justice" declares there chestnuta budding, and the should be a better ruling on how hedgerows beginning to the jury come to a decision and look green.
pronounce a verdict. -Dorothy Wordsworth.
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his startling new electoral law retention of the Volunteer to urge their patrons to conse some months ago, his madness Defence Corps was an institution from tipping, even if such notice had in it more, much more method to inculeate a blatant martial would be observed. The trouble is the individual who goes to the than the proverb usually allows. spirit, we should have no hesita. other extreme-who regards ser- Gambling, he might have been; tion in condemning it tooth and vants for instance but he was 'gambling with loaded nail. We know that it is not that menials to be kept in their places, dice, for although any Party might that its motto is probably and who exacts the uttermost in every kind of attention that he normally stand to poll the highest Defence and not Defiance, and may consider his due, without number of votes and thus secure that'in such a place as this where either a word or a coin of thanks two thirds of the total seats, the tendency is to slack off and to in return. clever tactics might almost surely let things slip by, such a move- eliminate the risk. Mussolini was ment is to be commended. Having not alone in perceiving this." His said this, we submit that the But authorities should endeavour to political enemies saw it too. where he had all the re- meet the numerous, class who by of the State and the nature and perhaps by age, are sources even
stronger might of the not attracted to any strenuous Fascisiti at command, they were activity that may be suggested by largely helpless and-worse still—a semi-military organisation. We gravely divided among them-are, inclined to believe that many
Probably for selves. Thus we read that the of our citizens-if we may use WILLIAM BYRD. the first time, Hongkong is elections have brought some score that word in a place where the
to have an opportunity of hearing of Parties into the field, and of rights of citizenship are denied the music of William Byrd. A these only two have been well them-would be attracted to a duett for two sopranos is to be given
MANY PETER PANS. enough organized to fight in all form of Volunteer service that in the Cathedral on Good Friday evening. Byrd, who was organist the electoral districts. Mussolini would savour of helping our civil at twenty of Lincoln Cathedral,
"The refusal by parents to could have safely faced much authorities. In short that a died in 1623. Byrd's work, we
answer questions and explain stronger opposition than this, revival in a modified form of the are told, is nearly all of the finest things led the child to fear that
quality. It falls into three classes,
beset with FREIERULANG ANG AN AEROSTAR ACTION ARE A After all, any man with between Police Reserve Force would find Church Music, Secular Choral adult life was
300,000 and 600,000 armed men at many who regard the maintenance Music, and Keyboard Music. Byrd mysteries, and there was some to know of the others' opinion
the English tremendous initiation to be gone his call must find himself able to of law and order in this Colony aas founder of
Madrigal School. His biggest though. So Peter Pan refused to exercise powers not possible for first consideration, willing to things have the quality of sublimi- gw up; there were a great many the more, unarmed politician. volunteer their services, either ty that marks the really great Thus Mussolini has been enabled in patrol work or as supervisors mind. not only to ride roughshod, over at the various wharves on the sea his political opponents but also front. Such a Reserve would not seriously to impair the freedom need the elaborate organization of the press. Matters must indeed that was a characteristic of it have reached a sorry pass when during the war, and if formed now we have Italians themselves con- would save time and prove of fessing that the truth is the one incalculable benefit in case of thing one cannot now say or print sudden emergencies due to strikes. in Italy." Starting with tremen-we nced not labour the matter. dons advantages like these, politi-We commend the present service cans far less astute and far less to the Colony which is voluntary imperious than Mussolini could and wish it well. confidently hope to win elections.
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ENTERTAINMENTS.
April
"Each of the jurors hears all the facts as the case proceeds, During their deliberation, the jury men have a verbal discus- sion and the verdict comes out of this only, which, I think, is not proper. Their duty is to "offer their opinion and it is sheer nonsense for ench juror
when he tells the foreman. I suggest that "Guilty" or "Not Guilty" be written on a piece of
paper, signed and folded, and passed on to the foreman who, in the open court should announce the verdict on the majority. It is extremely dan- gerous to find a jury giving a unanimous verdict in a murder trial following a verbal discus- sion only and I would'strongly urge that what I have outlined should be taken up.
"Justice" also observes that on the list of jurors all are equal as 8.-Coronet Theatre; far as their duty in the Court is "I fail to see the concerned. Trifling Women." "The Royal Russian Ballet" also should not be the foreman right. April 8-Star Theatre, Kowloon; reason why the first man called Hoot Gibson in "Blinky."
away instead of the Clerk in- April &-World
structing, Choose your foreman Pola Negri in "Mad Love."
please.' MISSION. April 0-16.-Sermons for a Lon-
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SOCIAL April 11.-Dance at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.
April 12.-Public Dinner to Sir William Rees Davies at Hongkong Total, 8 pm.
April 23-Camivol at Repulse Bay Hotel.
April 26-Dance at Peak Chub, 9.15 p.m...
SPORTS.
"Justice" concludes with a hope
to mercy in the Lantao case has gone to the "proper quarter."
STEAMER WRECKED.
MALAYA CREW FIGHT PIRATES.
HELD IN THE NICK OF TIME.
we know is various- SYMPATHY ly shown, but the manner of it as ex- pressed by the Oxford Arms Harmonic Society, is at once original, and practical, and free from the taint of a certain form of charity likely to upset the sensi tiveness of certain people. They voted one of their members who was ill a bottle of best brandy, and a large bottle of bovril from the Society's funds, whilst a member who owns a cow offered to suppor new milk gratis. The spirit of harmony as well as of charity seems to be possessed in large degree by this Harmonic Society. Mussolini's success was a foregone A Biological Necessity?
Impressions can concluson. Estimating what this. It was James Russell Lowell we
be very wanderten Mission by Rov. R. B. Schmitt,that the jury's recommendation means for Italy and for the world believe who almost first put into
ful things. Here ... at the Cathedral of the Im one does not need to delve very rhymed verse that "as fer war, I is a famous violinist, Jascha waculate Conception, .6 p.m. deep into Mussolini's past. Everythink it's murder.". Others have Heilitz, back from a tour in the body
knows how Mussolini, followed him, whilst the English East, reporting that the Chinese are now under the influence of the poets which the war produced Jazz craze, and that the favourite MICRONONOBRZE@BOO employing all the tricks of a stage sang the awfulness of the sights song in China is Yes, we have villain and pandering to the they saw; the ineptitude and no bananas." No worse insult to neurotic feelings of excited youth inefficiency of many of those in our Chinese friends than this -was ever such foolery as black charge of things, and the general could have been offered.
futility of war. Successive Eng-, shirts, white skulls and red carna-lish Governments, we' are inclined
We are all agreed that PASSPORTS. tions had himself swept into to think, have tried as far ast
Passports are a decided April 8-Tennis Tournament of (From Our Own Correspondent.) power,
cinema Napoleon and possible to steer clear of the
but nuisance,
it does not the Hongkong Cricket Club on the
AMOY, April 3. possibility of war by adopting a virtual dictator. Likewise every-
that seem
they are likely Stn Court, 4.30 pm.
On April 1 at 11.15 p.m. the .. patient tranquil form of dip- to be
awhile, abolished yet
April 19 and 21.-H.K. Jockey Malaya" from Manis went on the body still remembers how he play lomacy which seems to have been although some of the annoyances Club 2nd extri race meetings. cd with international fire not misunderstood and has seemingly attached to them are being re-
rocks on the east spit of Taitan 19- PUBLIC AUCTIONS. months
tended to prolong the settlement by ago, and
April 0-Lammert Bros:, at land just outside Amoy harbour. duced. The British Premier for
-the of certain problems beyond a instance is prepared to recom- Sales Rooms, the 5.3. Kwai Wa," This took place in foggy wenther, arrogantly seizing Corfu, nearly
reasonable limit. This is probably mend that the life of a now lying at Shamshuino, 3 p.m., embroiled half Europe. Mussolini better than being steeped in British passport be increased from
April 11.-Lammert Bros, nt is the man who once boasted that another conflict and laying up two to five years. This will their Sales Rooms, Daddell Stroat,
a saving of time and Tadies' Suit Lengths, 11 a.m. liberty was dead, that he had further problems for futurity. inean
April 14-Tanert Bros. at Time will doubtless replace the money where passports have to be trampled its corpse underfoot.
man power lost in the last war, renewed. In addition the British Loren Villas," 11 Chatham Rd., Although the election results but some of the figures available and Danish Governments have Kowloon, household furniture, 2.45 would seem to give colour to his of the losses sustained by those agreed that after March 1, pass-p.m.
port visas will not be required by April 16-Lammert Bros., at claimi, history, ever remorseless, who were involved, make starling Danish subjects travelling to 6 Catrick St.. Kennedy Town. will eventually overtake him. He reading. The Year Book of the Reich England, and British subjects two complete sets rattan and cane aken refuge on the Beach.
Captain wine) with a trvolver, and for instance says that it appears travelling to Demark. This is splitting machinery, etc., 3 p.m.
some fierce looking sailors, armed will repeat his boast once tog certain that the cost of war in something to be thankful for even
April 10-Second yearly meet with axes, defended the ship against often-and when that day comes men to Germany was no less than if millions of us are not likely to
ing of shareholders of the Hong- some piratés, who just disappeared Europe will be one dictator the two millions killed. Of these 25 travel to Denmark.
kong Engineering & Construction in the heavy main squall, no wo hove per cent, were between ages 19 and 22. Fifty per cent. were
can be variously Co., Ltd., at St. George's Building, in sight.
Some 188 native passengers had between ages 19 and 25.
GRATITUDE. expressed. The Chater Rond, noon.
following is a April 11-Seventeenth annual already been lunded in Amoy from per cent, were between ages 19 and 26. About 60 per cent. of the singular example of a man whose meeting of Gande, Price & Co..junks. Whilst picking up the crew dead were unmarried; add to this name is not given. The Royal Ltd. at 8 Queen's Road Central, one lifelt rajuszed owing to a
Group of Hospitals noon. the number of permanently dis- Northern
OTHER MEETINGS. It is quite likely that very many abled and, so far as Germany is recently broadcasted an appeal for
April 11-All interested in a Hongkong in this Colony do not see the concerned, we get the answer to funds. In reply this man wrote:-
Please find enclosed note, proposal to Conn necessity of a corps of volunteers "Is war a biological necessity?"
value 10s., re your wireless Forfarshire Ascen, to meet at No.? appeal. This is all I can possib-Queen's Buildings, Ground Floor, ly afford.
opposite Star Ferry at 5 n.m.
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RATCLIFF On April 1, 1924, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. William F. Ratclif, a son (William Alexander George).
MARRIAGES.
QUIN-PATERSON-On April 2 1924, at Shanghai, Kathleen, -daughter of the late Robert Paterson and Mrs. Noble, Rock Ferry, Cheshire, to James Quin, of Shanghai. MOORE-BENSON-On April 3, 1924, at Shanghai, Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Goverment Medical Officer, Kowloon, Hongkong, to Holen Margaret Benton, daughter of G. Benson, Lyme Regis, Dorset, L.C.S. Madras..
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Sixty
| SIN TAK-FAN.–At his residence No. zi Robinson Road this morning, Mr. Sin Tak-fan J.P.. aspect, the Empire of which we In only one place in Hongkong Date of funeral will be an are a part. Many doubtless hold-and that a private institution- nounced later. CHRISTIE-On April 2, 1924, at aloof as a result of their experi- is the giving of tips taboo. Shanghai, Elizabeth Auguste ences in the great struggle that Perhaps the right number is two. Wilhelmine de Schneider), did not find them wanting. Others general. We might almost, say it Outside these the custom is wife of H. Christie, Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, and may be, look on feeling that our has become not so much an estab- mother of Mrs. Bruce S. young men might do much worse fished custom, but an expected Jenkins, aged 54 years."
than enrol themselves as they one. And whilst it is the nature to acknowledge services which
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Personal service is about all I can possibly give. The kind- ness I met with in your hospita! inspired me to help others, and No. 724, was the cause of holding
A huze 'Chinese motor truck,
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at Shanghai, Adolf Č.
The China Mail.
Bezakung Tumday, ÁPKIL 8, 1924.
ARMED, POLITICS.
Filipino Captuin ovidently mistaking Taitan for Singsen. The "Mulaya is the former "tupan now flying the Stars and Stripes. Followed by the U.S. Vico Consel, the Ship's Agent Surveyor Thoresen and others 1 came on the cone at pon, the day after in the most beastly weather imaginable.
Most of the crew hind niready then The
foolish maneuvre of the' Chinese Bunch landab and all luggage. ship's pissongors and $1.600 worth of the Captain's, was lost,
The Sirevor for Bureau Veritas, Capt. Thoresen, condemned the ship na a totul loss. She bad adrendly broken her heck and form the brata to
own under the engine mul stok hole. The after deck was a wash, and the after hold, engine room and stoke: hole were flooded. | Bome 14,000 baga of raw sugar nit wom completely last, niso most-like- . ly the bulk of 18,000 in the fore.
| hold, as last night a terrific gale anong up. having probably com- pleted the destruction of the unfor I have tried, in giving my blood up the tram-car service. this tunate vessel.
EVILDOERS CAFORT; - We have Jind a lot of robberies London hospitals, to do so. causing inconvenience to a large
The truck had on our otherwise proceful Island.) Over 31. pints of my blood have number of people. been given voluntarily to save or either become stuck in the re-committed mostly by bad Formban clamation or works had go the centre of all evil. Amov. Inst characters, who come heromi - from prolong human life.
night the Chief of Police. Me. Bast. and another European müded. Ewo rambling dens and arrested over 30 ramblers and evildoers They were fined $hi caeli, so the municipal fin-
wrong.
Frisenette, Great Northern cases of emergency. The word are part of the price he pays fur Telegraph Co., aged 45 years, volunteer has an attraction for us. what he has asked or ordered, the It is true that one volunteer is custom will prevail. That it can worth three pressed men; and if be obnoxious is obvious. Many of
in certain NEWSPAPER KEN quarters are the Force is considered under as who work hard receive no tips. :*
Commenting on the references We may get what is called a
regarded as to piracy the Chairman of the strength it is perhapa better that bonus, at the end of the year, but mentals one has a perfect right to Hongkong General Chamber of it should be so rather than its that is all. Others in all stations ignore and not as individuals who Commerce made in his speech at ances ought to be sound. strength by reason of Taipanic of life receive the same, but are performing just as useful a the annual meeting of that body, *General" Chong So-pine, the influence, which we know to have almost daily in the places that function as any who can be named. Shipping and Engineering (Shang- installed her of this district, been exerted, should make it cater for the public, the passing It has remained for the Queensland hai) observés "It will be noticed and all his coli soldiers have at of the nimble coin is an experience Premier to learn that the news that no mention was made of the last meceded in capturing Chang Nobody who has followed bigger than it is. If added of almost each second of the day. paper man is after all an important necessity of Coast vessels being Chow, which gives them twiler SILVER WEDDING. evento in Italy recently, however strength is needed we believe The danger of the system is of person and one whose time is fitted with some form of wireless field.
apparatus. It Is Tois of tramusers have taken place CLENNELL-SHARFLES.—— On- casually, will feel the slightest that it is up to the authori- course that those who participate valuable, and who is not to be telegraphic
In these free-will offerings are trified with. He had arranged to possible, of course, that this here Intely. Thus Mr. Shields, the April 12, 1899, at Shanghai, surprise that the Fascisiti are ties to prove that the men apt to look upon them as an men at the Queensland Govern importance to the safety of ships dear old dad of 77. left us the other meet a score of London newspaper necessity, being of 50 great norietor of King George Hotel, a Walter Clennell, B.A sweeping the elections. Mussolini who are wanted will not neces-accepted right and to resentment Offices at 4 pm. He kept and lives in China waters, inv. Dikewise the popular Cout. (H.B.M.'& Well, second son of the lamay have invited many hard aarily be wasting their time in by a lack of attention, any them waiting half an hour when considered so obvious and is so Midford of the Tevante cruiser Walter C. Clennell, B.A., names poseur, adventurer, enrolling, that the Colony has as "forgetfulness" on the part of they sent him an ultimatum that prominently before everyong | "Kwangleon"t the highly estermed long suffering patrons. It is diffi- they would leave unless he saw concerned that there was no need Commisionar Me Moon; and the London, to Edith Sarah, sider tyrant but there is one he has much need of them now as it cult to make any bard and fast them immediately. He received to enlarge upon it. Let us hope that of snort Tiny White, who goes fo daughter of John Sharples hitherto escaped. He is no fool. had in the dark days of 1914 and rule, and we doubt if any of our them instantly and apologised for that supposition is correct. We Hongkome to join Douglas Laprik Bag of Birkenhead and
have our doubts, though 1” i Shanghai.
Consequently when he introduced afterwards. If we felt that the public institutons has the courage the delay.
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