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NEWS IN BRIEF
Lieut. H. A, Otten, R.A., ea com- pletion of a tour of three years in China, will be posted to Malta, teaving Hong Kong in February,
Police-Sergeant McFall returned to the Colony from Home leave by the 8.8. "Khiva" on Saturday. With him were a number of re- crufts for the Force.
day.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1929,
GERMANY'S BAN ON
THE
DUELLING
SCARS, BEER,
AND TOBACCO
THE disappearance of one form that the discipline of the students" of advertisement often' met with corporations is admirable for both before 1914 in the German news body and spirit. Not only is the Major C. Willson sat in the First papera "Who cute students' scara young mun taught to take alcohol Court at the Central Magistracy artificially, so that the appearance in large quantities without showing this morning in place of Mr. E. W.ia genuine?"-indicates a form of signs of being overcome by it-he Hamilton, who is on a week's holi social upheaval which has passed has either to disappear in time, or almost unnoticed in the various to sit quiet and say nothing-but, troubles that have since assailed he is an "active" member of his Germany. Captain U. Adama, A.M.1.Mech. E..
corporation, he has to bear up R.A.0.C., has assumed the apno longer the social asset they fear or horror of the sight of blood Scars resultant from duelling are under pain without dinching, any pointment of President of the Trade Testing Board, vice Major W.men thus medievally adorned may expiation.
were. That some circles still preter, or a nasty gash being a sin beyond He fights duels with White, R.A.O.C., who left Hong be gathered from the attack now members of other corporations as Kong for Home last week,
being made upon. University duel young Englishmen box. ling by influential members of Ger Whereas, Ricardo D.. Dizon, a musician many's political parties. When the tion in the duelling of the corpora
formerly, participa- Hving at 10, Granville Road, re- new penal code is finally drafted, tion was insisted upon. It is no ports the loss of a gold platedIt is hoped to include a paragraph longer an absolute necessity. There saxophone and a leather case valued making all students' duels illegal, are dozens of laws, written and un- at $100. He believes that it was with three months' imprisonment as atolen by a servant, who is alleged the least punishment. to have absconded.
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Hams was treated by Dr. MacGown and the dog was taken to Ma Tau Kok for observation.
Various reforms have already been attempted under the Republic which regards the class privilege of duelling as detrimental to the progress of working-class students.
written, dealing with how and why duels should be fought, but the Ger- man tradition has it that only gentierten fight them. Catholic aa- Bociations always forbade them: their members were locally socially "Impossible." The federation of
Captain D. Williams, of the a.. "Kuelchow," was bitten by a dog be longing to Captain Thomas of No. 1 Kimberley Villas. Captain Wil-It has been pointed out lately that German students' corporations has, the German Reich subsidises every it is understood, no intention of student in the country to the equi-, obeying any law against duelling. valent of fifty pounds, but possesses Therefore, the powers of the police no influence on moulding the spirit to interfere with inn-keepers know- Major J. L. P. MacNair, R.A,of the young man so generously Ingly lending their rooms for such Adjutant of the Royal Artillery in aided in his studies. On the con- activities would be the only feasible. Hong Kong, has been offered the trary, if he be so minded, he spends solution of a highly debatable appointment of Instructor at the the first terms of his university problem. Royal Military College of Science, career duelling and drinking--the Woolwich. He will leave to take laat perhaps, not to such an extent over his new post in February.
as formerly, since modern ideas of manly beauty demand as athletic a figure as possible. But duel and drink he docs, more particularly if he comes from a family whose men have for generation been members
year,
on
ad-
A Chinese was, at the Kowloon prosecuted Zola, who stooped to Magistracy on Saturday, bound over all iniquities, and whose hatred on a personal bond of $50 to keep
the peace for one and fanaticism were sharpenca mitting a charge of theft of two of a certain corporation. And his like blades, is a glorious passage. cement sacks from the
Tak Lee which no subsequent blunders can Building Contractors, at Chatham efface,
G.m.
TEN YEARS AGO
[From the "China Mall,” November 25, 1919.)
To-day's dollar is worth 5/1 8/40.
type becomes the future judge, high of the spirit of the new Germany.ment arrived in the barbour this morn oficial and professor, the guardians
The 2nd Batta. Wiltshire Regi-
University Corporationa
ing on board the s.s. "Tras os Montes."" Since all universities are re- The battalion comprises 800 men under actionary in spirit, and honour tra- the command of Lieut.-Col. Wyndham,
senior officers dition, it is understandable that the the
being Majors
young Republican objects to the Lawn, Rapson, Timmix, Culvert and about the various corporations. It class distinctions which still cling Lehique. is this standpoint, and far less that
Road, Kowloon. "Gustave Geffroy says that
L Siu, B public motor these
seven volumes of car driver, has reported to Clemenceau can be compared only the Police that at with the "Lettres Provinciales" of on Saturday, while his vehicle was stationary in Des Voeux Road Pascal, denouncing the Jesuita, Central, another car collided with and the "Correspondance" of it from behind, causing damage to of hygiene, which is influencing the to-day we had never thought of the Worse Than We Thought:-Until Voltaire, aflame with the spirit the right mudguard and foot-board. prime movers of the law to abolish possibility that people would be in- of justice against the arbitrary
duelling altogether. Hitherto it terested to know who dines at Govern- Mr. Joseph A. Howe, overseer was permitted "on the score of ment denunciations and the condemna of the Public Work Department, avenging an insult." The univer goodness, we had not considered it to Hanne Positively, honest to charged ап unemployed Chin-sities are hotbeds of political that one-half of the world
be in any way Ukely. This shows On October 2, 1921, Clemenceau, ese at the Kowloon Magiswell as social distinction. Students' know what the other hall thinks, and
tions of his time."
doesn't
tracy on Saturday with the corporations with famous names that property to ron a newspaper a men from polítics, unveiled a tron, worth $1, from the F.W.D. as exclusive socially and politically shows that when the Governor's A.D.C. after a couple of years in rete larceny of 72 pieces of old dating from the Middle Ages are
man should be.omniscient It also statue of himself inspecting compound at Kowloon Tong. The as the highest type of club in Eng- decided that the "China Mail" wÀS A poilus in a front-line trench, defendant pleaded guilty and was land. The forming of Jewish, anti-low, democratie rag that ought not to
alcoholic, Socialist, Although he had just celebrated fined $7 or 10 days in default.
Coinmurist, be given the official news of Government sports and other associations which House he did us a greater injury than his 80th birthday and had 50 Dr. Ko Ying-fan, of the Tung admit young men from any type of we thought. All we resented until to-* years of violent political struggle Wah Hospital, was involved in; a school; are regarded by the elite as day was the invidiousness of
.the behind him, M. Clemenceau stood motor-accident on Saturday mere, excrescences, on the social snobbery of it, and the darned cheek of
He was riding his motor cycle system. up and with no apparent effort along Queen's Road Central, going
It-for the A.D.C. is neither a public "Tobacco, and Iodoform"
official nor a private person; he is the Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 25, 1929. occupied the tense interest of feast, when, near the Central Market
While reformers are complaining whose Public Doings are Public Pro- handy man of the Public Servant his hearers for nearly an hour he accidentally knocked down
against the atmosphere of "beer, porty. The "China Mail," as all men' Chinees woman, who was slightly tobacco and lodoform," which en knew, representa more of the Hong
tion, there are others who declare together.
"THE TIGER" PASSES with a speech a verbatim report injured on the left hand. He took velops Germany's most sacred tradi. Kong public than all the others put
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
The Duke of Comaught's Plans: New Hurlingham Chairman: The Kellys: Col. Oise Polly of the Cheshire: The Chief Scout
1
Bojourn in the South
"It was very obvious that the THE Duke of Connaught is mak- hour of death for the Alliance came Ing preparations for his an- the very moment our enemy was nual sojourn at his villa in the forced to drop his weapons Think
James:
When, during the war, ho visited. the Western Front-he was past the age for active service-his tour of a muddy and rather shallow line of trenches in the Loos area constitut
of which would all a whole page her to the Tung Wah Hospital. of the "China Mail." The physi France has lost, in the death of cal strain would have told, on a M. Georges Clemenceau, one who younger man The "Tiger" ap- had been battling in politics since peared to relish it. The value of 1871, making and unmaking the Entente and of a strong but Ministries. He was a doctor by peaceable attitude on all Euro education, a politician by cholec peah questions by France was He was a born orator, a keen his principal theme. With all journalist, and a great writer. It the old fire of The Tiger" fully is estimated that his articles as a inflammed, he exclaimed: Journalist would fill more than a hundred volumes, each of: 800 pages; and they were all written with extraordinary skill and force. His catput as author was considerable; his works were alive with genius and intensity. As a friend of most of the great artists of his day, some of his writings on art were among the finest appreciations known:
Writing of Clemenceau some. years ago, M. Sisley Huddleston, the "Times" correspondent, stated that essentially, perhaps, Clemenceau became the great ference, then pending, there came and early this year opened at A Cavalry Glant polemist. There has been nothing a sweeping blow at his political Cannes a plaque to commemorate THE measurements of Prime But "Polly" has fully stoned: for Ilike it in our time or Indeed, any successors for the financial and the twenty-fifth anniversary or Camera, the Itallan heavyweight. I her vivid past. She has been the p
His defence of Dreyfus is economic operations followed by the foundation of the Entente wonderful. The articles that
that them
Supreme Councils
time.
what is at stake for France. She South of France, and London will must live in a peace of Justice or see but little more of his Royal she must perish. At Versailles made Germany bend the knee. Highness until next spring. How is it that she has been allowed His arrival will coincide with to forget? She gave us ber signa ture to engagements which no long- the opening of the winter season or hold good. According to the terms at Cannes, where the Duke is im- of the Treaty the German critainals were to be tried by mensely popular, as le Lord What has happened? The bandits Derby, who is spending more and of Leipzig, be they judges or accused, are carried in triumph. The victims more of his time at the Villa are insulted. Yesterday we were Sansovino. the victof Would it be fe to sak.
wer
if we remain s01es, The former performs' a few
Washington Disarmament Con-EASANT HE
Following a reference to the public functions each year in Cannes and the neighbourhood,
Cordiale
*Apple-pip Kelly" MISS Constance Kelly, who died, as the result of an accident, was the daughter of the last of the Lord Chief Barons, Bir Fitzroy Kelly, a famous figure in Victorianed period of acute personal dis- legal circles, and better known as comfort, spent permanently bent at "Apple-pip Kelly.”
an angle of forty-five: degrees. In the "sixties: a woman' named: Sarah Hart died mysteriously at The Tavern Parrot · ·- Slough from poisoning, and Quaker "DOLLY" the famous Cheshire named John Tewell was accused of Chessa parrot, who a short time. Fitzroy Kelly defended magd was stricken with a malignant put prussle aeld which the body contain- was a pathetic object at the open- od might have been caused throughing of the pudding season at the old eating apples, for there is prussic case standing on shelf.
taverna stuffed, figure in a glass acid in apple pipă.
The defence was unsuccessful and have been outmatched by Long John Her lurid remarks, which could not Tawell who ultimately confessed, was hanged. But "Apple-pip Kelly Sir Fitzroy remained until his death in 1880.
him, and
W
up the suggestion that the
tumour and is now alignced for ever,
Silver's atrocious bird, were missed a part of the entertainment Perhaps it was as well in a com pany so largely clerical as to include # bishop, a rector and a vicar, not to mention several ladies: NE
1
who so quickly settled his account at | means of raising a" fund) for a cot
the Albert Hall with Jack Stanley, at Bart's Hospital.
the ex-policeman, are almost iden. If "the" "Chorse":" is henceforth ileal with those of too late. Colonel spoken of “a good pull-up for "Osis" "Ames, that
notable change at the inousshold. Cavalry,ant of the bishops," "the: vrince" of "taverns,” ng
came daily from his pen have "Security and reparations," he Hurlingham Club Chairman been brought together in seven sald volumes and, although they den
with day-by-day developments,
Is impossible to read them without |being stirred to in
One
mous), tern
the
who died
died a few "the Fulham Palace, pub, the cleri- 'cal guests are responsible, for these
Sir Harold Colane! Ames also stood 6ft definitions came from them. the chairman-10 in Shirocks, and turned the accipled for some reale at twenty stone. He enjoyed
succeeded Uhat was probably the runtque, Legal Colour
gregate somewhat inconvenient, experience of H
me of Mr. John Galsworthy's two sons of having only, one charger in
BESAR play "The Roof," dae hook William ment, equal to carrying him the Vandeville Theatre, His a Paris icar aon bas Beant by itself this charger might botel Bo Mr. Aubrey Hammond, Thomas sally have passed asarikorned who is designing the pcenery, fat has been “ though when I was bestridden by present staying in Paris Hotel courts for ten Colonel Ames it looked little more
haciétitiousness in order
thus fold
than a polo pony,
to get what he calls the "gadgets Eveido, from time to line 11
oxfriend
king went lame under this oncar's great, 5 um boxing back
burden, and there was no substitute, Frequently Colonel, Amier was unable of doërskoo
Franch
witch
collection
these: things absolutely
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