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ENTHUSIASM
strength will ever be debated, and neither side will give way until suspicion itself is disarmed. It is futile to give ourselves the lie. The truth must be met without uncertain hopes and hidden fears.
NEWS IN BRIEF
One fatal case of influenza was reported during the past week.
A Chinese was fined $5 at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for carrying two chickens by their wings,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER -8, 1929.
CORRESPONDENCE
PURE ENGLISH!
DARING ROBBERY
THIEVES RAID SHOP IN SHANGHAI
HAUL OF JEWELS
Shanghai, Yesterday,
To the Editor of the "China Mail"] Sir,-Apropos current toples con- cerning the English Association and Broadcast Pronunciation: when there are other, glaring and wide- A daring daylight robbery was spread faults to be remedied, the perpetrated to-day when thieves question of whether "as" should affected an entrance into Messrs. J. Last week four cases of enteric rhyme with "lass" or with "pam" Ullmann and Company's premises in fever were notified, one being fatal. Seems particularly puerile and Nauking Road, Shanghai, and stole They comprised one British and futile.
watches and jewellery to the value threa Chinese (one imported). Yea
Take the case of a few of the jof over $100,000. terday four more cases were more outstanding errors in English The last was discovered when the notilled, all being Chinese.
as "she is apoke" or "wrote":- manager returhed from tiffin. Showcases had been opened and (1) The mispronunciation of-the
final short "a" in such words apparently had little time to spare.. drawers rifled. Although the thieves-
Mr. Frederico Gustavo da Luz, of the P. O. Banking Corporation, who lives at 2, Peace-avenue, Homuntin, is to be married shortly to Miss Dulcinea Olivia Vieira Ribeiro, 5, Carnarvon-villas, Kow- Joon.
The "double tea" ceremony in St. Paul's College this year (on Thurs- day, Oct, 10, the anniversary of the Chinese Republic) will commence at 7.30 p.m. and will includo, a pro- gramme of Chinese and foreign | entertainment,
Notice has been given to the Registrar of Marriages of the forth- coming marriage of Mr. Wong SK- chung, asalstant compradore, Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., who lives at 3, Granville- road, to Miss Minnie Lee, 42, Wyndham-street, top floor.
"Idea," "sofa," soda," and "umbrella” — almost invariably during their raid, they showed great powers of discrimination in select. ing some of the most expensive articles from the stock.-Reuter.
pronounced "I-deer," "sof-er." "sod-er," "umbrell-er" by the average English man and woman, even the educated. I' have heard an M.A. of Cam- bridge repeatedly speak of "Canad-er," "Calcutt-er" and JAPANESE MINISTER GUEST
"Malt-er." Surely an effort should be made, before too late,
to remedy this horrible mi- pronunciation.
MR. SABURI
OF NANKING
INSPECTION of troops
Canton, Yesterday.
(2) An allled and even more painful vulgarism, not just so firmly
On the 8th and the 9th, the entrenched at least among the Japanese Minister, Mr. Saburi, will educated-is the insertion of be the guest at Nanking of Mr. Hu in such words as "law," Han-min, General Tang Yen-kal, "raw," "draw"--mispronounced [Mr. Tai Chi-tao and others. "lawre," "rawre," "drawre.” On the 10th, the National An- The word "armahr," so fre-niversary, he will attend the inspec- quently written in chits for tion of troops, and in the evening, "amah" illustrates both types will be invited to dinner by Dr. of errors,
and shows further C. T. Wang, the Foreign Minister. that those who use this super--Canton News Agency. fluous "" sound are fully con-
Peace in Far East selona of its presence. In this
Nanking, Yesterday. connection the irony of the Mr. Saburi presented his creden- matter is that, in words requir-tials to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek ing it, the "r" sound is omitted this morning and declared that not altogether.
only peace in the Far East, but
Mr. Henry Payne, second Secre-; tary to Board of Trade, has accepted an appointment under the Egyptian Government, who are desirous of his expert assistance in connection with the organisation of the Department of Commerce and (3) Industry-British Wireless Service.
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The world has a period to wait be-up Snap by to pay a fore the ideals of the pacifist are attained, which would embitter many who believe it has already been brought nigh by the Pre- mier's visit. Mr. MacDonald has A lecture entitled "The Ma- merely uttered a prayer. It re-chinery of Warships" will be given mains for the modern God-the Mitchell to-night at 8.80 in Room by Engineer Captain W. H. peoples themselves-to see that "g" of the it is answered.
The
WHAT CHINA - NEEDS
University. The lecture will be illustrated and will be of a popular nature, It will be held under the auspices of the University Engineering Society and visitors will be welcomed.
"The
it seems hopeless to draw atten-world peace depended upon the tion to that "odious" vulgar- maintenance of friendly relations iam," the subatitation of the between China and Japan. The various tenses of the verb "lay Japanese Government, he said, are for the corresponding ones of especially eager to bring about the verb "lie," unless to point sympathetic understanding between out its having now reached the the two Governments and the written language as an awful peoples of the two nations. example of the non-adoption, in
In reply, Chiang Kai-shek sald matters grammatical, of the that since Mr. Saburi had visited "stitch in time" policy.
China on several occasiona and had become familiar with conditions in two Governments and their peoples this, country, he believed that the would benefit from the appointment,
Reuter.
and
) An error quite modern
somewhat similar to (3) is the use of "in" for "Into." To "walk in" and to "walk into" a room are two quite different actions, just as are to "walk -on" and to walk onto" the roof, To remedy these and similar serious errora should be, It seems to me, a "first charge" on those interested in the mainten- ance in its parity of our "priceless heritage." The stan- dardised pronunciation of "off" and "gone" can come later.
Yours, ele
ENGLISH UNDEFILED: Quarry Bay, October 7.
PRIESTS' MURDER
GUILTY BANDITS STILL AT LIBERTY
AIRMEN'S FEAT
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S PRAISE FOR COSTES
TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY
Paris, To-day. M. Laurent Eynac has charged the French Minister at Pekin-to- express to Costes and Bellonte the French Government's warmest congratulations. Havas.
Records Broken
avere
Yesterday afternoon in the har- recent disaffection of bour while one of the Hunghom troops in China, the rebellion of Hong Kong ferry launches was pass- *certain Generals and leaders, anding Holt's Wharf on its way to the alleged plot to overthrow Pre-ger cidentally fell overboard, but Hunghom, a Chinese male passen sident Chiang Kai-shek and the was saved by a seaman of the
Peking, Yesterday. National regime, indicate that Kowloon Dock launch 1, which was
The French Legation has receiv- China is not only in need of organ-near by. The man, on-arrival at the
ed a communication from Costos isation and a new system of ter-Kowloon Hospital
{Hunghom Wharf, was sent to the
and Bellonta that they landed safely in the desert part of Hei- ritorial control, but of a strong)
lungklang-on All British subjects, and parti- hand and a mind of great power MS-V Boxer, BC, Warden of
Sept. 29 and DEEP REGRET EXPRESSED only able to reach Tsitsihar yea cularly the Scots, must feel a and determination. Political in Morrison Hall, Hong Kong Univer-
terday Thoir non-stop flight Peking, Yesterday. thrill of pride as they read of the terior development must by the sity, delivered an interesting ud-
covered 9,610 kilometres, breaking Baron Guillaume, Counsellor of all previous non-stop records and achievements of Mr.Ramsay nature of things be slow, and dress. on
Life of Dr. the Belgian, Legation, who left for establishing for MacDonald, who, after a long China in this respect cannot be Andrew's Church Branch of the gate the murders by bandits of France and China.
Barnado" at the meeting of the St. Ichang on September 18 to Investi- direct air communication between the first time public life of bitterness, attack, compared with any European Scripture Union yesterday evening Bishop Jans and Fathers Rupertus opposition, and hate, has at last country. It does seem apparent, in the Church Hall There was a and Bruno, states that so far it has
General's Chagrin changed, public 'opinion into ad- however, that one of the initial gadd attendance of members, over been impossible to get the bodies
Tokyo, Yesterday: A message from Harbin states miration, regard, and affection.steps towards governance and whom the Rev. C. B. Shane, Acting down to Ichang owing to the dis-that when a shortage of fuel forced The Premier is making history, order should be the ruthless sup-
Rector, presided.
turbed conditions in that area. Costes to land at a village north- Similarly, it appears also to have ward of Talisihar on September 29, and his name will go down in the pression of those provinces which As the result of arrangements been impossible to do anything to the Chinese soldiery took him into annals as a saviour of peace. for so long have spread rebellion made between the Edison Swan wards apprehending the guilty per-custody, as they believed him and His sincerity and enthusiasm have and lawlessness, and defied the Electric Company, Ltd., and the Brions.
Bellonte to be Soviet military fired the imagination of the authority of the Government. So Ltd., the wiring supplies, lighting for the murdered priests was held Fu-lin telegraphed to Mukden an- tish Thompson-Houston Company. On October 1, a memorial service aviators, whereupon General Wan American people, who are capable far, no one in China has been able engineering, electric refrigeration, in Ichang. It was attended by nouncing that his troops had cap- of great flames of zeal, fanned by to check the reactionaries, or has and radio, business of the British Baron Guillaume, local foreign off-tured an enemy plane and asking
made any definite or sustained Thompson-Houston Company, Ltd.,cial and Chinese military officers for instructions. effort to do so. And what is the will be taken over by the Edison who expressed to the Baron their This is apparently the reason why' reason? Is it not that in. Chinese an Electric Compay, Ltd., who deep regret for the murders.a week passed before an assurance
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MR. SUN FO
GUEST OF HONOUR AT STUDENTS' CLUB
of safety reached the outside world.
The aviators are reported to be at": present living in Wan Fu-lin's yámen, at Tsitsibar, as his guests, but have not yet been permitted to proccod; therefore the French Con- sul at Harbin has gone to Teitelbar, where he arrived this roorning, for the purpose of clearing up official obstacles. of
Shortage of Fuel
Canton, Yesterday. Minister Sun Fo and General
Party, whose prestige thereby has gained simultaneously with an increase of public confidence. to-morrow, and that the fear of of age, was charged at the Kowloon A Chinese male hawker, 63 years But it is a cruel world, my intrigue and assassination le still Police Court this morning with sell- masters! Words are forgotten, a very dominant factor? Once ing newspapers, instead of fruit, promises broken, and the "un the possibility of conspiracy and Taking into consideration the man's w Teh-chen were guests
which he was licensed to hawk. dying" flame of public enthusiasm armed revolt in the provinces is age Mr T. S. Whyle-Smith sym-honour at a welcome reception soon flickers low in time of trial. removed, China may truly claim pathised with him and pointed out given by the Euro-American Re-Costes has telegraphed stating In the Anglo-American heroics to have seen the dawn of a pros that it was more, hard luck on the turmed Students Club on Mantuk that they landed after approximate- of the past week, the practical perous and peaceful rule.
man that he had reached the age Maloo yesterday at 6 pm
gly fifty-two hours flying. He ex- issues have been overlooked by
when he was physically unfit to Later in the evening, they at pressed disappointment that A In this case the sting in the carry baskets of fruit round with tended a banquet given by the shortage of fuel bad prevented him the majority. Yet the stern and wasp's tail," is the independence him and sell. He recommended the Kwangtung military and efyll of reaching Japan; but later Harbin difficult problems of Naval Dis of the provinces, a state of affairs old man for a newspaper hawker's cials at the Turaze Yuan In Tang reports atate that of and petrol are armament have not been solved, which, of course, the authorities licence and said that he deserved it shan. The following ware present bolag sent him from Hallar, and the nor lessened, we believe, by the will not admit. If only appoint. A fine of $80 with the alternative Ming-shu, Mr. Fan Ki-mo, General on October 8 or 9-Reuter,
at the banquet Chairman Chan aviator hopes to hop off for Japan touching reunion between the ments were differently made, if of 14 days hard labour was inflicted Tang Yin-wa Mr. Hou Chung- two great Powers that guard the the Governors of the various pro- tracy this morning who pleaded Sun Hi man, Mr. Lum Wan-kol, on a Chinese at the Kowloon Maginching. General Li Yang ting, Mr.
PRINCESS ROYAL Atlantic. Facts and figures have vinces were prohibited from pos- guilty to a charge of importing 4% mayor of the Canton Municipality, IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES TO to be faced squarely, and it is sessing land and collecting pounds of Chinese prepared tobacco and Mr. Lum Yik-chung-Canton hardly more likely that the un-taxes in those provinces: Into the Colony on kis salt Junk No News Agency g
BE SLOW vielding Navy protagonists will and the governmental powers of had brought the tobacco from NimIn a case heard at Mortlake H.R.H. the Princess Royal arrived T6572 H.-Defendant stated that he
Lndon, Yesterday.. bend the knee to sentiment, than each were lessened to the status Shan in the north of China. Det. Police-court in which a man was in London yesterday. The latest It is for either country to sacri of a County Council in Britain, Bergt Humphreya pointed out that charged with burglary and stealing bulletin states that the journey has fice Its vital needs.
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