MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1930.
LOVE SUICIDES IN JAPAN.
ATTEMPTS TO CHECK THE EPIDEMIC.
NOT TO PAY TAXES. LATE MR. SCARLETT. TRAGIC DEATH.
More Troubles in Indo-China.
DISTRICT OFFICER'S ORDEAL.
FILMS BLAMED.
Paris, Saturday, Fresh trouble has broken out in The authorities in Japan, at- French Indo-China; the casualties tempting to check the appalling being three killed and two wound- devastations wrought by the preþed. The conflict was between the valence of love suleides, have re- police and a thousand demonstra- cently undertaken un Intensive tors in Chamoi, 125 miles north- campaign of propaganda.
This campaign takes the odd form of propaganda films and of posters, which are paraded through the streets and stuck on walls in public places, with such Inspiring adjurations as "Don't Die of
Love!"
GERMAN" MONTE CARLO"?
THE CHINA MAIL.
Reported Capture and Death of Murderer.
SEQUEL TO ARMED ROBBERY.
Tientsin, May 21..
The British Consular Authorl ties in Tientsin have received letter from the Linyu Magistrato aaying that according to a report he has received from Chinwangtao, three men committed an armed west of Saigon. The demonstra-robbery there. One of them was tors, brandishing bamboo sticks caught and it is thought that he and native knives were led by men was connected with the murder of carrying a banner inscribed "refusal the Rev. E. Y. Scarlett. to pay taxes."
assumed 2
When the police attempted to ar- rost the banner bearers the crowd threatening attitude; Until now these efforts have their response to a warning to been without any effect, and now desist Wus * rain of bamboo that spring in here, while the pro-sticks whereupon the police fired a verbial young man's fancy turns volley on the demonstrators who to thoughts of love, it is expected fled. that the toll of dùnths will be even
Probably there were others greater.
wounded than those picked up who This extraordinary state of
were hiding in neighbouring rise affairs arises from numerous fieldą.
causes.
This man was wounded at the time of his capture and has since succumbed to his wound. Before he died he gave his name and other details. He was photographed and it is reported that he was identified by the donkey men as one of the men who held up Messra. Cullen and Scarlett. A copy of the photo- graph is being sent down for fur- ther identification.-P. & T. Times.
Tracts with Moscow bearing the PROBLEM PICTURES. There is first the "Kazoku seido," symbol of a sickle and hammer
a kind of family system, which were found on the dead and Royal Academy's 162nd
even to-day is customary among a wounded demonstrators. great number of the Japanese.
There was another demonstration
"Kazoku seldo" forbids the free in Omon (Cantho province) where a choice of a husband or wife, and district officer was surrounded by its tradition imposes that the heads] 1,500 natives but he extricated of the family should choose the himself by ordering his men to fire husband or wife for the aspiring into the air. adolescent. A marriage which is childless is annulled after some time, according to the "Kazoku acido," even when the couple hap) pen to love one another dearly,
Emotional Japanese. This means often a great deal of unhappiness, which, with the emotional Japanese, leads to sul ride pacts. In a little town in the
Fifteen men were arrested Reuter.
KING NOW WELL.
To Attend Toscanini Concert with Queen.
interior of Japan called Myano-OTHER ENGAGEMENTS OFF. shita, there is a celebrated "Lovers' Leap," a high waterfall, which annually receives numbers
of lovers into its embrace.
London, Saturday.
Exhibition.
London, May 2.
The Royal Academy's 162nd ex- hibition, with 1,669 works of art, seems brighter, fiveller and less stately than in former years.
Women artists have been remark- ably successful.
There are fine pictures by Miss
Australian Accountant Found Shot.
Ipoh, May 14.
NEW PLANS FOR WIESBADEN..
A distressing tragedy has occur-
Berlin, May 1. Wiesbaden into A plea to turn red at Chemor, where Mr. R. M. Every, an accountant for the Malaya What is somewhat exaggeratedly Consolidated Tia Dredging. Co., was tamed "a German Monte Carlo" has found dead under circumstances has been made in all seriousness by which indicate suicide.
Its present Mayor. Wiesbaden Half an
hour previous to the needs financial help badly, and the tragedy he had taken breakfast with City Fathers are all the more crush- another member of the staff who ed by the knowledge, in so far as shared his bungalow. The latter, they are innocent of all the wrong- after breakfast, went on his shift doing laid at the door of other Ger leaving Mr. Every alone.
man cities now in difficulties. Wies The deceased apparently shot him badon has indulged in no expensive self with his service rifle which was building por speculated in risky found by his side. So far as can undertakings. It is argued that be ascertained he had no troubles of the harm done to the town by the any sort. On the day previous he occupation in keeping away Gorman had remitted £35 to his father in tourists and preventing the wealthy retired from all over the country The deceased was a member of from settling in what used to be the Lewis Gun Section, M.S.V.R. their favoured spot, is only one of He has one brother in Kuala Lumpur the many evils that have befallen it. who is a well-known amateur motor-The loss of the rich Russian who used to come annually and spend cycle rider.
The remains were conveyed to many months has not been counter- Batu Gajah where the interment balanced by the advent of the took place last evening, the Rev. N. American and the growing interest of the Dutch tourist. They do not stop long enough.
Australia.
Williams officiating, in the presence of the members of the staff of Malaya Consolidated and other as- sociated mines.
LESSON SERMON
First Church of Christ.
Joan Manning-Saunders (17) and. Scientist, Hong Kong
Master John Rennie (16) (the only picture be has ever done), besides the products of veterans like Sir David Murray (81), Sir. George Clausen, Sir Reginald Blomfield and Sir John Lavery.
"Ancient and modern necrom- ancy, alias mesmerism and hypno tism, denounced", was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ. Scientist, on Sunday, June 1st, 1930.
German tourist traffic authorities state that only a very definite at- traction In these days of motoring can hold any traveller not merely In search of health at all longer than a week. Wisebaden claims that the lure of the gaming table has
Proved its worth in Zoppot, the seaside suburb of Danzig, in Cannes, San Remo and even in puritan Switzerland, and that there seema no reason why Germany should not avail herself of similar means of taxation to help both the city and the national exchequer.
KOREAN REDS.
Buildings Burned in Seoul,
The portrait of Queen Mary by Mr. David Jagger will be the most The Golden Text was: "The H.M. the King is well on the admired work. Her Majesty is wicked have drawn out the sword, The Japanese family system re-road to complete recovery and will seated wearing a chinchilla-trimmed and have bent their bow, to cast cognises only those in the direct accompany the Queen to the Tos-cloak, pearl necklace and ear-rings. down the poor and needy, and to line or in the next direct line. If canini concert at the Albert Hall It is described as the most human slay such as be of upright conver
Their sword, shall enter n wife is chosen for the eldest son to-morrow, but it has been de-portrait of the Queen ever painted. sation.
cided inadvisable for His Majesty The most discussed exhibit will into their own heart. and their
Seoul, Yesterday. of a family, the young married
to attend
the trooping of the probably be an arresting vision of bows shall be broken" (Ps, 37: 14, Rongo is authority for the in- man remains in the house of his
formation that the police have family, the young wife takes his colour on his birthday, June 8. the actress, Tallulah Bankhead, by 15.).
Among the citations which com- issued a communique stating that. family name, and lives in the which would involve two hours' Mr. Augustus John depicting the
astride his horse.-Reuter.
remarkable vitality of her person-prised the Lesson-Sermon was the band of 100 Korean Commun- ality. "Ghostly, but wonderfully following from the Bible: "Theists bombed and set fire to the gripping" and "very unflattering" light of the body is the eye: if Korean Association buildings and are typical comments on it.
BBaume
house of her parents-in-law. One can but
from this that one's relations acquired by marriage in Japan are of a more amenable diaposition than is proverbially the case in the west- ern world.
Although the sexes in Japan were, at any rate formerly, abso lutely
segregated before they married, so that offen the "zukue" brides and bridegrooms had never seen one another before their mar
LIBEL ACTION,
Hindenburg As Plaintiff.
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therefore thine eye be single, thy schools, and the Japanese Consul. A Modern Crucifixion. whole body shall be full of light. ates.. They destroyed communica There are two problem pictures. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole tions and the electric light plants "Were you there when they crucified body shall be full of darkness...No in Yenki, Lungchingtsun and sey- my Lord?" by Mr. Mark Symond, man can serve two masters: for leral other towns in Chientao, shows a kind of modern Crucifixion. either he will hate the one, and The Chinese military and Japan- out the At the back of the three crosses is a love the other; or else he will hold ese police have driven banner inscribed **Jesus of to the one, and despise the other. Communists-Reuter. Nazareth, king of Men." Some Le cannot serve God and mam- A libel action, in which Mar-visitors profess to recognise well-mon" (Matt. 6: 22-24).
A disorderly drunk was brought riage, it happened now and again shal Hindenburg is plaintiff and known persons among the crowd of The Lesson-Sermon also includ-into the police station and
National Socialist, Herr besia! faces and beautiful faces ed the following passages from the chuckling loudly to himself. that they met and fell in love. If the
Christian Science- text-book, "What are you laughing at, eh?” a union after the "Kazoku seido" Goebbels, in defendant, opened in surging round the crosses.
The second problem picture "Science and Health with Key to demanded" the jailer auspiciously. was impossible, then nothing re- an excited atmosphere to-day. It
"Ha, ha laughed the drunk. mained for them but to take their relates to an extremist
news-Homo Sapiens," by Mr. John Keat-the Scriptures," by Mary Baker lives, a form of suicide which the paper article by Goebbels vehe-ing, shows a man putting on a gas Eddy: "We cannot obey both phy-"The cop' would inshist on--bic Japanese call "Shinju."
mently tacking the President's mask. There are skyscrapers in the slology and Spirit, for one abso-sheeing me hic-home, but he's attitude to the Young Plan and background and aeroplanes over-lutely destroys the other, and one brought me to the wrong-hic The strict old customs have accusing Hindenburg of undue head. Impaled on a rife at the or the other must be supreme Inhouse after all."
It is impossible to naturally been mitigated by the infriendship to Jewish and Marxist man's aide is a bishop'a mitre and the affections. roads of westernisation. For al advisers. It is surmounted by a judge's wig, also a military work from two standpoints. If we though it is nothing unusual to us caricature of the President head-helmet, apparently discarded. the attempt it, we shall presently "hold westerners that any one shoulded "The saviour looks on."
interpretation being that the wise to the one, and despise the other" Counsel for the defence unsuc-modern man has left religion, law (p. 182). take his life for love, the imagina- tion of the Japanese is much more cessfully demanded the withdraw and order and military methods of esally swayed by emotional ex-al of two Jewish Judges Router the past and has taken the gas mask periences, more readily warped by
Influence of Films.
things calculated to deform the
mind like the average run of pre- 500 MILES AN HOUR. sent-day films.
It is the opinion of the Japanese Government, based on careful and exhaustive inquiry, that the pre- sent epidemic of "Shinju" is directly attributable to the flood of American films recently loosened
Billy Arnold Wins Prize.
Indianapolis Saturday.
as protection.
There is only one picture of the
King, by Mr. Alfred Munnings. It shows His Majesty, in the uniform of a Field-Marsha}, presenting standards to the Household Cavalry.
Well-dressed woman, in The five hundred miles an hour limousine, to a youth attending Half a gallon of petrol, on the Japanese, who have, it ap-motor car Grand Prix was won by bowser: pears, been in general as strongly Billy Arnold from Chicago, driv-please.
drive Meiler are ing a front wheel influenced by the cinema as
Youth, in anxious tone: Madam, children below a certain age with Hartz at approximately four hours are you weaning her?
us.
and 49 minutes. The two brothers Marshall crashed against a wall
ACTION AT LAST!
Madras Police Take Possession.
Vederanyam, Saturday. The Madras police have taken possession of Satyagraha's camp and arrested 130 volunteers and all the inmates of the central camp.→→ Reuter.
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STANDARD TIMES
check the import of filma by higher at hundred miles per hour. One The Nerves And Success. Sunrise And Sunset In
Attempts have been made to duties. The censor has deleted all scenes dealing with passion and Jealousy, and the Japanese have even made their own films intend- ed to counteract the influences of. Hollywood.
COCKTAIL HABIT.
Condemned Before Royal Commission.
London, April 30. The cocktail habit was denoune- ed by Sir Edgar Sanders, ex- general manager of the Carlisle undertaking of the Central Control
•Board (Liquor Traffic), giving evidence before the Royal Commis- sion on Licensing.
died in hospital, and the other is in a critical condition with a free- tured skull-Reuter.
SENT FOR TRIAL For Murder of a News Venor:
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