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CRIME AND INSANITY.
LORD DARLING ON "IMPULSE."
.Do harm by stealth
And blush to find it crime. In the above fires Lord Darling, who recently retired as Mr. Justice Darling after a distinguished legal career, utters a trenchant criticism of the views held on the question of crime and insanity by members of the Automatic what he tenus School."
This school, he says in a striking article in the London Evening News, have lately reinforced the old well-worn arguments with a theory that man has two minds, the conscious and the sub-con scious had witnesses are not hard to find who will explain to thy jury that it was the sub-conscious one alone which was active when their protégé committed crime,"
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Dealing with the argument that the impulse to commit crime is irresistible in certain cases, Lord Darling quotes a declaration by the Council of the British Medical Association to the effect that act is a crime if a person who does it is, at the time, it is donė, pre- vented, either by defective mental power, or by any disease affecting the mind, front... controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control is the "direct and immediate consequence of his own default."
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COMMERCE AND FINANCE.
LOCAL METALS MARKET.
Quotations by local metals de- lers for various lines this morning, nominal, were as follows
THE CHINA MAIL.
WHO'S WHO.
`LATEST CHINA COAST
CHANGES,
Mr. G. A. Evans, chief officer, "Lucayi," is on reserve.
ONE ARABIAN. NIGHT.”
For two mowy Hongkong nights | "One Arabian Night' Forme the chief attraction at the Coronet Thea tre and is arousing a great deal of
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
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RAFT Programmes and Entry Mr. R. Nunn, from reserve, interest amongst large audiences. DRAF
This is a powerful story of Oriental
Forms for the Fourth Extra has gone chief officer Luenyi."
Mr. C. E. Fisher, chief officer, love and passion, beautifully pro-Race Meeting to be held on SATUR- "Shantung," has gone chief officer, and introducings the Jumons DAY 7th and MONDAY, 9th June, "Taikoo Wan I
m-actress, Pola Negri, whose ac- 1924 (weather permitting) may
Alm. complished dancing is a feature of be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.
Mr. A. J. Nathan, from reservere has gone chief officer, "Shantung.'
Mr. J. G. Smart, chief officer, "Talkoo Wan I" has gone chief officer, Chinklang."
Mr. D. C. Lewis, from leave, has gone sup'y second officer, "Yatshing"
Mr. H. W. Fraser, third engineer. "Tingsang." has gone second engineer, "Kwongsang." V
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
For this picture an entire Orient
city with palaces, bazaars, Entries close on 24th, May 1924. hridges, elc., was specially construct- ed in order that a First National Hongkong, 16th May, 1924. production of outstanding merit; might be produced. Interiors, also, are striking and correct in
every de tail.
The two prificips? figures in the as a linchback clown, heat inf a troupe of players, and a beauti-ns to sell by Public Auction ful uniamable dancer of the desert The clown loves his dancing stive to distraction and the suffering he un- Mr. L. F. Ellis, second engineer, dergoes when she rejects him for a "Suiwo," is on leave.
myal lover forms one of the most Mr. J. Colquhoun has been an-trigle incidents of the play.
Mr. E. Dewar has been appointed third engineer, Tingsang."
Mr. W. Fisher, third engineer, "Suiwo," has gone acting second engineer same shập:
Mild Steel Bars3/16" 14" 5/16"-pointed third engineer,Sulwo." $6.00 per piqul; 38" $5.30;36" to
$5.50.
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Plates, 4' x 8' x 3/32".1/16" 1/8". $6.60 per picut; 4 x 8 x 3/16" and up- $5.80.
Tinplates, 14" x 20" x 100 lbs.. x 1426 at $12 per box; 14" x 20" x 110' Ibs. x 124s at $11.
to 3 (330
Wire Nails, 1 assortment) $8 per keg.
Sales put through (for indent) were as tollows:
Joists 3550 tons at $5 per 100 lbs.
Plate Cuttings.- $430 per 100 lbs.
NAM PAK HONG SLABKETS,
Captain J. A. Murphy, of the Tangwal" has gone master, "Hsinwah."
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Captain S. M. Copp, of the Hsinwah," has Kone master "Tungwah."
Mr. A. G. Corbin, acting second officer," Haihong." has gone third officer," Haifoong."
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LORD CASTLEREAGH.
FATHER'S MARRIAGE
BARGAIN.
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Plas
The
tenants of the Mr. J. McN. Thompson, third Machynlleth (Montgomeryshire) of the Marquis and officer, "Haifoong," has gone estate. second officer, "Haihong."
Marchioness of Londonderry Mr. R. Kendall, third officer, were entertained to luncheon at "Haining has
Machynlleth in celebration of the gone
coming-of-age of Lord Cast officer, same ship.
Mr. R. Bell has been appointed lereagh.... third officer, "Haining."
second
Mr. E. A. Neilson, from reserve, has gone chief officer, "Sanning." "Mr. T. Ogier, chief officer, This morning's Nam. Pak Heng" Sanning," is on reserve. notations, basis netal goild terus, were as follows :-
Java sugar, avenge quality per pie net. 24 rough white "spol $12.99: "Futary" July delivery $153, Migust delivery 100.33, September deliver $10.48 No. 3 fine white $18.8. No. 18 rough brown $12.53, Juve u $11.80.
Mr. A. C. Newton, third officer, "Fooksang," has gone third officer," Cheongshing.
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Proposing the health of Lord Castlereagh, Sir Edward Pryce- Jones expressed the hope that A member of the family would live at Machynlleth.
The Marquis of Londonderry said he had made a bargain with his son on the previous night that if he chose a nice wife, worthy of the people of Machynlleth, and perhaps a Welsh woman, he should live at Machynlleth.
-Lord Castlereagh said he accept- Mr. A. S. T. Fullam, chief ed the offer, but he had not the officer, Honam," has gone chief faintest idea when it would come
Mr. A. M. Jewell, third officer, "Cheongshing." is on reserve.
Mr. B. McK. Thompson, chief officer Kinshan," has gone chief officer," Honam."
Rice, avage quohty, per picul officer, "Kinshan."--(Shipping and off. gross for net No. Siam long | Engineering.) y White $9.6, No. 1 Saigon long
white $7.75.
"The existing rules are plain," adds Lord Darling, "and judges
Plour, per Sark, B0 lbs. have found little difficulty in show- ing to juries how they apply to thery's NAN 8,46, Wire direns facts proved in evidence and to $2.55, Nutmeg Orange $250, King the opinions given by medical fisher $2.82. Maize 8. Big Gun witnesses. If enacted, the new Tiger Shield $2.90, Globe rule must be expressed in clear OH MI $2.3. Reindeer? and simple language. It already $2.50, Melon $2.00. White R obtains in some parts of the King's 1 & 2 Dayton dominions, and it would, I think, $250, Hanuma $2.1007 allay the regrettable differences which have 100 long existed be
tween physicians and jurists.
But gifts have often dangers
in themselves, and so it taust never
OIL HEARING CLOSED,
WASHINGTON, May 195.
The Senate O} - Comeline bus
RUSSIAN PRINCESS.
MARRIAGE TO GUARDS"
OFFICER
Within the next face weeks, The Daily Mail understands, the mar Liage will take place in a London register office of the 30-years-old Russian Princess Maria Bariatinsky -and-Mr-James-Binny Ford, aged
21. a Grenadier Guards officer.
The licence described the bride 'Maria Bariatinsky, spinster, IMI Dae Jearing. Chairman aged 20.
All reference to her Walsh bus stand that no rank was omitted, but when the hearings would be held unless the Princess's age was given she was murder but is as good an answercourts compelled the oil agnat, told that before the marriage could to any other criminal charge."
Harry Sinclair, to answer question take place she would have to have put by the Commitee.--Raiders her parents' consent. American Service, t
be forgotten when this matter islatively edes al tius stated Tee
discussed that the suggested defence cannot be limited
MRS. HALDANE -99.
REPLY TO THE KING'S CONGRATULATIONS.
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Her father, Prince Anatole Barjatinsky, who was to give his SHANGHAI DULLLNESS IN consent, died at Mentone and was
buried at Monte Carlo.
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Mr. W. G. Gerrard, Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs, and. Captain. T. P. Hall are passengers on the outs going "President Madison.”
New York, May 16-Mr. Foley has declined the Tam many leadership on the grounds of ill health-Reu.er's American Service.
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Domestic OccUFTENCES Princess Barlatinsky left London Leading Articles Commenting on the state of the to attend her father's funeral and Local and General Shanghai market during sach werk.to obtain her mother's consent to Social and Personal Mrs. Haldane, mother of Visthe Y. C. D.-Netes says
the marriage. It has been a very uninteresting Count Haldane, the Lord Chan cellor, entered on her bundred week, in all lines. The races gener- year. Throughout the morning lynne treated only as a con she was occupied at her house,ne, and the explanation is said Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire, be that there was a suchten unse in opening letters, telegrams, and parcels from every part of the
world.
Chief among the telegrams of congratulations is one from the King, addressed to Lord Haldane,
which reads:
THE POPE'S WALK.
ountable falling off of orders, parti- OLD VATICAN BOUNDARY
PASSED. cularly as regards piece goods. Ex- nomers have had very little to do,
The Pope walked a few yards for though there have been some inquiries, they have not been of a farther than any of his predeces vure to bring business and tran-sors during the last 54 years from actions are unlikely unit there is a the Apostolic Palace, when he Woman's Malice "I am so glad to think that more favorable exchange. The went to inaugurate a new playing Five-Year Honers
Chinese cotton and sarn markets field belonging to the Catholic Police Sergt. Charged you are celebrating the 99th
of Slipped Away birthday of your dear mother, were dull enough anyway. but to association, the
controversy has and that she has been spared make the stagnation rogue promous Columbus. A
Repulse Bar con- to you and your family for seed, the Chinese all tenk a busmen's arisen as to whether this
A Wet Night many years. I have often heard holiday yesterday, aftending the exstitutes an infringement of Pope. Left to Perish
decision that the of her charming personality, and change, but ignoring possible asi Pius IX.'s
not leave the Obituary ness and spending the day in the Pontiff's should and how she has endeared herself to a wide circle of friendsmoking room discussing the politi Vatican. by the simplicity of her charac-ral situation.
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Home Mails
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The "Glen Amop"
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Sport
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Storing Petrol
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Colony's Health..
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Biver Steamers': Wireless.. Canton Unrest
Notre Dame
Sun Yat-sen Dead
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Blasting Dangers
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The Arms Haul
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A Breeze in Court
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Sailor's Bravery
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Pirates Shot
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Honour for Honda
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Pirates Routed
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Correspondence
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Univesity Lectures
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Fepper in Her Eyes
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K. R. A.
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Immortality
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""Tai Leo." Master
Careless Contractom
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Local Wedding
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Property Withdrawn
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Motor Bus Deaths.......
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Boy Injured
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Peak Tram Fares
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William Henghas
Hount' Possession...
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Those Landlords
Alleged Forgery
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The Quaints ".
A $210,000 Fino
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Richa Coolie Jailed
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Street Thieves
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Damping Band
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Forged Will!
Exchange
Local Share Market
Woman's Suicide
The Vatican holds that as the | Beyond The Law Knights of Columbus bought the Wireless Licences ter and her thoughtfulness for The rise in values during the past land in the name of the Vatican, £800,000 Tax
so the land is now part of
Water
others.-
six weelta, though slow, was Mrs. Haldane has written, a
the Hongkong University steady that it was evident there Vatican, and that therefore the Typhoon Weather letter in reply without glasses,
The Prime Minister has wired: would be a reaction, even though Pope never set foct off Papal slight and this came during the territory. The walk was through conditions have been favourable and the St. Martha Hospital, thence Simplex Plaster Asked for the secret of long it hard to understand quite wiry through a door cut in the wall The Weather Chart life, Mrs. Haldane replied:
the market suddenly has gone, goog- marking the old boundary of the Kowloon F. C:.... Avoid stimulants; keep a happy gy The fact ronins, however. Vatican to the playing field. mind and a tranquil spirit"
"A very happy, and comforting week: Except locally, the weather the sacristy of St. Peter's to Piracy Grilles...
birthday to you."
600.....MILLION TIMES.
POWER OF NEW MICROSCOPE.
that den hay boren a lack of orders and a mom or less genend decline
in prices. Then does not appear 10 he waything seriously wrong, but for some obscure reason business bay { fallen off.
Jack Dempley, the boxer, has Professor Siodentopf, of the signed contract for £200,000 to Zeiss works, Jena, has constructed upper in 10 ilme,
microscope magnifying 25,000 diameters.
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ISLAND OF MUD.
SINKS INTO SEA AFTER
FOUR MONTHS.
The new island which appeared suddenly last November off the Arakan coast, in the Bay of Bengal, is now, four months later, reported to have disappeared as mysterious-
The port on the thine at Burely as it came, z
item
The present day high power
was more than a thousand feet. microscope: will magnify of, dorks and whef workers on a long and thirty feet high
thousand to fifteen hundred question of wages, diameters, which means that it
The island was mainly composed |nf÷mid-which had been--forced-
will make an object appear to the MiH. E. Corper, of Maftin-lane, Tabove the surface of the sea by the eye one or two million times its Cammon-street, B., writes that a accumulation of petroleum gases. actual size fagurea. With a phonint egg was found in a pen on The sea In this region is very magnification of 25,000 diameters, one of the farms of the Western shallow and it is also a weak point of more than 600 million times in Game Farm and Rennels, Ltd. in the earth's crusti jarea, many of our theories about Rhayader, Radnorshire, which, he The disappearance of the island the structure of things in chemistry believed in a record for this country is attributed to the softer 'paris and medicine may be put to the Generally pheasante do not lay until being, washed away, though it bas aest and doubts solved.
April is well under way
left a shoal behind.
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