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News in Brief
Three cases of smallpox and one of diphtheria were notified yester- day.
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Messrs. Lammert Brothers ad vertise an auction of goods and chattels of the Metropole Hotel on Friday, March 21.
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930.
MAGIC OF A MALAY
NIGHT
[BY JAMES L. GRANT]
THEN I beheld it all for the A meeting of shareholders in the
first time I was conscious that Hong Kong Tug and Lighter Co. every dream I had ever aspired to Limited (in liquidation) will be was here realised; that here was held on April 26 at noon in the beauty-such beauty as could only office of Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth exist on the canvas of a Gaugin, for here in truth the miracle was | being manifested.
and Fleming.
An important auction of refinery
The day la Singapore had been stores
is advertised by Messrs. hot and sticky; not a breath of air Lammest Brothers to be held at
came off the sea. So I had lain on the premises of the Taikoo Sugar the verandah of my room all day Refinery, Limited, on Thursday, long, listening to the shrill cries of March 20, commencing at 11 a.m.
rikisha coolies and street vendors, sniffing the foul smell which rises from the river in the hot months, watching tall Tamils and yellow Chinese la brightly coloured sarongs call to one another in raucous voices.
The danger of hawking crackers was mentioned by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith this morning at the Kowloon Police Court when he fined a Chin ese $4 for hawking crackers instead of clothing. Sergeant Barnicle stated that no licence Was ever issued for the sale of crackers.
It is an easy life In Malaya, where you work a little and play a little; where no effort is needed, so that you wonder vaguely if you will ever
Two Chinese stall fokls of the Mongkok Market appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith to-day charged with cruelty to a chicken DANGER TO TRAFFIC and a goose respectively. Tho case was fixed for Wednesday, March 19, at 11.15 am. The de- fendants are on $20 bail each.
What is Riding in a
Decent Manner?"
CYCLIST DISCHARGED
be able to accustom yourself again to the strenuous bustle of the West. where the night was warm
We sped out into the country sort.
and
We relaxed to it with that fullness of good health which is so peculiar to the warmth of the East. The atmosphere was no longer op- pressive In its humidity; only clam and restful.
from
Raffles Hotel, with its jazz band, ita
It was good to be away dancing, and night life; its painted women and superior young men. My companion was a restful man who loved poetry and muste; who knew the kinship of the earth, the Malay like a native himself. lives of the natives, and anoke
All about us on the road was the unbelievable beauty of the island; the vivid scarlet blossoms of the Flame of the Forest; tho tall. slender trunks of coconut palms renching away up to the heavens; the stocky rubber trees set in clean ning riot, brilliant rows together, and in between, run. greenery of all kinds of shrubs and flowers. Afl the deep glory of it was caught up In the gentle peace of the evening twilight which was just falling.
Surely. 31ld myself, here it A caution was given to two
would be possible to find that case Chinese youths by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon That a person riding a bicycle with and repose which is lacking in the western world, with its political and Magistracy this morning for play-another person on the backstop in a
Here one could ing football in Kai Yan Road."decent manner" did not constitute a industrial conflicts. Inspector Elston stated that the danger to traffic, was an opinion ex relax and respond to the tranquil defendants were arrested as the pressed by Sergeant Hughes at the spirit of the land and its quiet result of complaints received at connection with
Kowloon Magistracy this morning, in waters.
a caso in which a had been told again that no the Station.
Chinese was charged with reckless driv. European living in the Federated ing in Kap Shek Mei Street.
Malay States over achieved to that When a Chinese was fined $4 at The defendant pleaded that he was perfect repose and happiness which the Kowloon Magistracy to-day for taking a friend home to Ki Lang Street, is missing in the sophisticated falling to swcep up Bugar-cane near the street in which he was ar
modern. And having observed his shavings, Sergeant Barnicle in. rented.
Chinese to-day is perhaps one timated that the sugar-cane busi- The police officer stated that the way of life in Penang and Singa- of the most difficult languages in ness was a very puzzling one, as street in queation was under repairpore I can quite believe it.
ist the far end towards Laichinok Road, Surely the fault lles not in the the world with which to keep the Sanitary Department and the and that it was a street where there atmosphere of the Malay States, abreast. Although the script re- Police could not decide whether was hardly any traffic and fow pedes but rather in the paychology of the Everywhere mains the same throughout the sugar-eane was a fruit or a veget-trians. Riding with a person on the European himself.
back step, in circles, did constitute a you can find evidence that he re danger.
Ha sets fuses to forget Europe.
able!
tountry, the spoken tongue differs
On Monday Professor W. Brown, His Worship said he would hold it in every province. In large cities
M.A., B.Sc.. F.R.S.E., A.M.I.E.E., dangerous if a person were to ride de. such as Hankow and Shanghai will deliver a lecture on "Pompeil, cently along a crowded street, such as where the populations are made the Resurrected City," at 8.45 pm. defendant not to take anyone on the Shanghai Street. He would advise the up of provincials from all sections in Room K of the Main Building of back step, and discharged him. of China, successful Chinese busi-the University when the next meet- ing of the Education Society is held. ness men must be able to speak The lecture is open to the public, two or three dialects besides their and all interested will be cordially OPIUM POSSESSION own. Merchants are sometimes welcomed.
forced to employ interpreters,
The report of an armed robbery while similar conditions exist in was made to the police yesterday the Government offices.
Australian Chinese Discharged
(38) un
aftenoon by a Chinese widow living The Courts present another at the second floor of No. 626 Shang-
hai Street, Mongkok. The report Edward Charley Clark serious language problem and a stated that three robbers were employed, of Melbourne, appeared be large staff of interpreters must be armed with knives and gained ad- fore Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon kept to ensure justice. An ex-mittance to the flat on the pretext Magistracy this morning charged with of renting a cubicle. The occupants the unlawful possession of one tael of cellent illustration of the difficul- of the flat were bound and gagged at 1, Poking Rond.
non-Government prepared opium, found ties the Courts are facing in this and money and jewellery to the respect occurred recently in value of $88 were stolen. Shanghai Provisional Court, when
BIRTH
GITTINS. At the French Hos- pital on March 12, 1980, to Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gittina, &trict in the south was brought in a Chinese from some obscure dis- daughter,
to face a charge of theft. Not
Hong Kong. Thursday, March 13, 1930.
A MODERN BABEL
one of the eleven interpreters em- ployed by the Police and the Court could understand the man and,
TO ESCAPE POLICE
Magistrate Says to "Scamper up the Stairs"
Faced with the problem of catching
since he could neither read nor Chinese boys and
a party of five trick cyclists, four
awaiting a claimant.
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A second man, named Lai Fan (86). a tallyman, had his bail of $150 es- treated.
Detective Sergeant Humphreys stated that he wished to drop the charge
against Clark as the man who was absent was the real offender.
Clark was accordingly discharged.
HAUL OF OPIUM
Untenanted Sampan
up huge American buildings, he builds hotels with all the modern duces cocktail bars and cabaret conveniences into which he intro-
shows a special picture theatre on the lines of the London Plaza is bo- ing built to install the latest talking Alms-and then ho complains and wonders why the Malays and Chi- nese, the Bengalls and Tamils aro becoming more independent and Europeanised in their way of life.
"Time Did Not Matter" For myself. I found that sponse to Nature here on the Malay coast in just the same full measure that I have orten felt on the Sussex downs or amongst the Surrey hills. My nerves were soothed and freed from the strain of modern hurry
TG-
I drank deeply and gratefully of the"
For days I had beauty about me, worn no watch: time did matter here, where one could live simply and beautifully without contention.
We passed along an Avenue of tall palms and came out on the sandy beach of the coast.
As yet the moon bad not risen. and native fishermen shot to and fro In their canges, the light from their torches showing up the tall spears of the fishing atakes.
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Over to our left lay a native village, the thatched roofs of its
over
been poor. We accepted sunflower
girl, an Indian $8,000 Worth Found on write, the case had to be post. Sergeant managed to arrest the latter Chinese Christians who read poned until someone could be and at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning she was charged with reckless their Bible will find in the story found who spoke the same brand riding in Nathan Road near Saigon Detective Sergeant Fitches and a palms for support, the sides re- At about midnight on March 11, houses built round the trunks of of the Tower of Babel a state of of Chinese. The Police searched Street. poly-lingual confusion which may in vain for three weeks.
The Sergeant stated that one of the party of detectives. boarded a maining open to the sun and rain. Many
male cyclists left his cycle behind when untenanted registered sampan lying Walking across, my friend spoke to be applied with equal truth to more interpreters were tried but chased by a constable, and made good off the wharf at Pitt Street, in the some of the natives. They told The Yaumati Typhoon Shelter, and him that the crops were good, but modern China. There we have none was acquainted with the hir escape, as did the others. the curious anomaly of a race of man's dialect. Finally a student was now in the Police Station seized a huge quantity of raw and that the previous night's fishing had
opfum, worth peoples reading the same writing, was discovered in a small Chinese His Worship expressed aurprise that prepared
the man should have left his bleyelo be. or characters, yet speaking total-University who happened to be hind. He thought that escaping from The case was mentioned at the ly different languages. In from the same part of the country a policeman оп bicycle could be Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Kwangtung Province alone, seven- and the hearing was continued, achieved much faster than on foot, al- and was adjourned for one week.
though by the latter means one could teen dialects or more are spoken, The case was such a minor affair scamper up a staircase. whilst Chinese from the North that it required only fifteen coming to Hong Kong or Canton minutes to complete after the in- are forced to speak in English or terpreter had been found, but be- some other foreign language. cause the dialect of the accused The complaint is often raised by
so completely unlike any-
Was
A fine $10 was imposed on the girl.
ANOTHER DEFEAT
patriotic Chinese that there is nothing spoken in central China, it French Government Lose unity in the country, that the had caused the Court and the people are selfish and do not care Police a month of worry.
to Chamber
Paris, Yesterday.
$8,000.
AIR SERVICES Between Australia and Straits
Canberra, Feb. 14.
seeds from them and walked back to the beach chewing them contentedly. For something like two hours we lay on the warm sand listening to the croaking of frogs, the shrill ery of cricket and the soft lapping of the incoming tide. Hardly a word passed between us, for we were. both conscious of an extraordinary
communion and understanding-it was as though all the beauty I had ever sought was contained in that presant.-Daily Chronicle.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mall” Morth 12, 1920.]
Today's dollar-is-worth-4/-
In a speech here the Premier, Mr. Scullin, declared that although Great | Britald apparently assumed that the Commonwealth was willing to sub- at all about the welfare of the "Pei-hun," which is a mixture
The Government were defeated by sidiac a Singapore-Australia Air nation. Is this state of affairs to of Mandarin and other northern the Chamber by 202 votes to 280 on Service, the Commonwealth Govern be wondered at, when the people dialects, is expected to abolish an educational matter, but the vote ment had not yet decided whether it
was not on a matter of confidence. 80 preferred that-Imperial-Airw978- of the North, South, East and difficulties of this description there is no question of resignation should wholly control the Britain to 110. West of China have none of the after a generation or two. It has Reuter. greatest bonds of human friend been proclaimed the National ship-identity of speech? Civil tongue by the Government, and it war in a country is always a sign will be made a compulsory part of that a common ideal is lacking the curriculum in every publish and with China the dessication is school in China,
not of religious views, of politics
or of temperament so much as the
barrier which differences of lan- guage have set up.
It is learned that China has in vented and is
andle to have a new lan. guage. They call it Pothua
anduvata"
PRINCE IN AFRICA
The Prince of Wales is now at Entebbe.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Yesterday he few-over
GENERALS IN HONAN According to a report received, it op- pears that Gehorsts Han Fu-chu and
Yu-san, have established the Headquarters at Hain Hsiang and Changteh in Northern Honan.
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and Australia.
Australia service or whether an Australian Bubsidiary company should operate between Singapore arrived in port this morning en route The Blue Funnel ship Autilochus
from Vladivostock to Europe. Aboard Imperial Airways suggested em are 1,203 Servian, Croat and Blovohe playing large flying-boats similar to soldiers and their families. While en those, operating in the Mediter route from Vladivostock to Hong Kong, ranean Straits Times,
smallpox and typhus fever broke out among these troops and their families. On the arrival of the ship this horn-
Mrs. Marión MeCrone, agel 68, A suitcase-containing articles
of Dumbreck, Stirlingshire, who valued at $50 was stolen in Greeking thirteen cases were taken to the had an illicit still in a locked cup Street, Soho, W., from the motor board in her house, was fined £250 car of Misa Dorothy Seacombe, the at Glasgow.
actress:
Comp
isolation hospital The ship isto bo duly, disinfected here and preparations made for proceeding on te voyuza fres of disease
The Captain Commanding the batts
resolution in favour of the lion has in the mansublle gint a se
London nure- sterilisation of the mental unit was
Totenda ha Law for Brabbe and An operation on Hiar Force' machine, enrered on the Cal ton" the actress, at
cond
to the desire of the educa." (Wireless Service.
quest to the American, Rød Cross
and Zhar oparoad unanimously at a meeting of ing for a considerable supply of strugs,
the Denbighshire County Council, medicinas, and. Upang.