SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1930.
INSURGENTS ON PEIHO.
AWFUL MUTILATIONS OF BODIES.
DREADFUL ATROCITIES.
READING TOO FAST. Rushing Through the Papers.
'SLIP-SHOD HABIT. '
THE CHINA
MAIL.
Wo read so fast that if our reading ROUND THE CINEMAS were still listening we should be
hearing every word in that sentence
or paragraph at once, or so nearly Joan Crawford Showing
at the Queen's.
simultaneously that all the sounds would be telescoped together. Even! if we heard them in their right order it would be like listening to a It is impossible to read too well, gramophone record spinning at some but, alas! it is only toa easy thousands of revolutions a minute. Dairen, May 19.
nowadays to read too fast. For We should put our fingers in our Capt. Nakai, in charge of the great many people reading has pass-ears to save them from so horrible Military Transportation Branch, fed from being a conscious into a noise. Our eyes have become too Taku, touched at Dairen on the being an instinctive activity. We quick for our ears, We read by morning of the 17th on his way to can no longer control it. We are sight very much faster than we can Ujina, Japan, to attend a three become passive rather than active daya' conference of Superintend-readers. We cannot stop or even ents of the Milltary Transportation put on some kind of brake. Offices.
He sailed from here, accompanied by Major Sato in charge of the locul Branch Offee, by this morning's 9.9. Harbin Maru.
mains.
Some of the corpses were
We are reading machines, always
wound up and going.
And master whatever is not worth
the knowing.
Faced with an advertisement of
not.
hear the words.
Reading by sight is good enough for bad writing and too good for some advertisements, but the trouble is that when we come to good writ ing it is dimeult to restrain our eyes and give our cars a chance. It is hardest for those who have read
voraciously in youth. Long before
is in s
|
"MODERN MAIDENS."
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN CHINA MAIL
The old Joan Crawford of the silent films was a very different be-
Social Functions ing from the "Jazz-Mad Joan" of, To-day Tea Danco at Penin- "Our Modern Maldenu." This issula Hotel, 5 p.m.; Dinner Dance at another of Goldwn-Meyer's pictures Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m. and is not a "talkie," having sound
Entertainments affects only. Som ny be disap- To-day Queen's Theatre, pointed in Joan, who nevertheless "Our Modern Maidens,” acts very well and gives us occasional To-day- Star.
Theatre, glimpses of her £1,000 smile.
"West of Zanzibar'. style of coiffure is Irritating.
To-day World Theatre, Included in the cast are Douglas "Rescue." Fairbanks, "jun, Rod La Roque,. To-day — Majestic Theatre: Aníta Page, and Josephine Dunn. "Twinkletoes.” The story is mostly about a "mad
Her
Sporla
See Special Sports Diary on page
Meeting.
RADIOS
Remarking on the insurgents' activity on the Peiho on the 12th.omebody's pills in which we are not
house party", a wedding where every in the least interested, we are aware they have reached middle age, even one marries the wrong person, and 12. Capt. Nakai remarked that, contrary of it at a glance, just as we are if they neglect newspapers, they a "naughty" scene in a lone shack to the reports of their annihilation, aware of sunlight and shadow. We have acquired a habit of galloping in the mountains. There is plenty June 10-Sanitary Board Meet-) they were still lying low in hands of do not see an advertisement as a through books, and become aware of jazz and foolery, and romance ing, 4.15 p.m. & hundred or two in the surrounding lot of marks which, if we examins that though, perhaps, they read with a big "R" of the say-it-with-a-
Home Mail camtry, while a detachment of
them, will prove to be words cou more than ever they get less from ukelele variety. Still, a good show To-day-Outward for Europe via]. Government troops at Hsinho are
reading than ever they though net up to "Our Dancing Siberia (Kambove), 2.80 p.m.. working to suppress them. The veying a message to us. We get their
They lcok enviously at Daughters."
Land Sale. rumour of these insurgents being in the message whether we want it or did. We have no longer need to the
man (rarer every <lay) The final showings are to-day. 'June 10-At P.W.D. Offices, one lengue with a local motley force is
reads slowly, his mouth In addition, Hearst's Movietone lot of Crown and at Shamshuipo, discredited. Out of 50 insurgents spell out the letters-whole words, who
us what Uncle 15 pm. captured, about a half were killed whole sentences throw themselves at forming the words. It will take News bulletin telly on the spust. The proverbial Chin-s. Looking at a green field as we him a week to read what they will Sam is doing.
pass it in the train, we have no read in a couple of hours, but there "SHANNONS OF BROADWAY". |- CHL callourners, continued the
How would you like to have your Captain, found further evidences in choice whether we shall or shall noi is not the satisfaction in a week of
read the enormous letters un a pink their reading that there
face slappeil 504 times, by the same the horrible mutilations of the reor yellow board telling us something couple of hours of his. I always
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. back? without ears, and others had their we do not want to know. We havs suspect that this is what Hazlitt person without a chance to strike
The following programme will bo no sooner noticed that board thanmennt when he said that he never eyes taken out of their sockets. A
That is what has happened to broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Helen Mehrmann, the few hends were found eat off the we have read it. We have come to read a book through after he was
"dumb Broadcasting Station Z.B.W." on 855 read as naturally as we breathe, and thirty. I find that I have to make trunke. Secret agents of the
12.30-1.15 p.m.-Programme of Government troops
who had been the only way in which to stop our a continuous effort to read a good altresa" in "The Shannons of metrca:-
Broadway," Universal all-talking captured by the insurgents had been eyes from reading is to close there book as it should be read and to production of James Gleason's stage H.M.V. and Victor Records by buried alive. The insurgents had or to direct them where there is no prevent my eyes from taking in to comedy, which opens. to-morrow at courtesy of Messrs. Moutrie and nuch of a page at once. Poetry set fire to a number of farm houses print.
rail or lessens the effort, because the man- A journey. whether by kidnapping over 20 people according
1.15 p.m.-Organ Recital by The play calls for Lucile Webster to rumours. -
Manchuria Daily road, is enough to make us envy the ner of its printing is a reminder Gleason to stap Miss, Mehrmann's Frederick Mason, A.R.CO.
inhabitants of illiterate countries that it is not to be read by eye alone face once every performance. The LT.C.L.. News.
where it is not worth while to ag. (Prose gives no such repeated warn" } "Shannons", ran for 89 consecutive (1) Introduction to Act III.
hauser vertise goods except over the shops ing. No white lines hint that we where they are actually to be sola. should do well to have a foot on the weeks in New York. When the (2) Berceusegner).......Jarnefelt.
on the Universa! | (8) Allegrette in D Minor, sound stage. Mrs. Gleason slapped In places where most of the people brake. We eat up the columns like scene was shot
(4) Aria in D cannot read and have to sign then the miles on an arterial road.
I hardly know what is to be dona Miss Mehrmann for the 504th time, į (3) Evensong Easthope Martin. cobble! with a cross the hangs out a wonden boot, the bakes about it, beyond deliberately trying an elaborate scroll of bread, the to read as if we had only lately glover a gilded glove, and the watch. learnt our letters. But one or two maker a wooden clockface on which observations. do seem to suggest time stands still. No words are a possible though
'SIC TRANSIT GLORIA
Summer Palace in Peking.
HOUSES TO LET!
namės
French
the Queen's Theatre.
i
EARTH FADING.
Interesting Theories of a Scientist.
Pasadena, Calif., May 25. Our whole universe seem to be
Co.
Tann-
Guilmant ......Bach.
(6) Marche Solennelle.......Mailly. 1.45 p.m.Recorded Programme Continued.
2 pm-Close Down.. 7 p.m.- "Silver Wings", Vocal Gems,
7.09 p.m.-
Light Opera Co.
"I'm a Dreamer" .....Gracie Fields.
7.15 p.m
"The Journey's End”,
7.31 p.m.
Feter Dawson.
Dixie Methodists.
Vincent Collier (Organ).
"Coople O'Ducks” .........Gracie Fields.
for old Songs",
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra.
8 p.m. "The Sacred Hour";
8.07 p.
Reginald Foorte. "Blessing, Glory and Wisdom"
Westminster Abbey Choir. The Pipes of Fan",
8.15
Foreign and Chinese residents
inconvenient in Peking have been interested in a "want ad" appearing in an wasted. In such countries there is remedy. I have long forgotten the English-language newspaper, which no inducement to advertisers to little Greek that once carried me of Thucydides, runs as follows: "To Let, good plant boards of rhetoric in green through set pages houses in Summer Palace. Afields. What would be the good of but I find that a Russian book has fading away to a point where prac. "The Deathless Army", number of buildings in the sum-setting up the graven image of a a fair chance of being properly read
tically no matter will remain, and mer palace are now to be let se beefsteak on the broad Russian plain by me, The Russian characters are all space will be filled with radia- residences. Situated
me from amidst without the means of conveying to just enough to prevent beautiful surroundings, these those who saw it where this desir-reading too much at a glance. Al- tion, travelling from nowhere to "Down South". buildings are both sanitary and able dish was to be had? You hang though the French use type not nowhere. The possibility of this "Sea Songs" 7.39 p.m.- comfortable, being neither too cold up your wooden beefsteak where you much unlike ours I think I come state in the far distant future, is
"Sylvan Scenes", to real reading when indicated by calculations made by in winter nor too warm in summer. are prepared to serve its juicy pro nearer
Dr. Louis S. Kassel, of the Gates A few houres on the hill and
7.45 p.m. book then atotype, but you do not force the open a similar number near the lake are contemplation of it on strangers & when I open an English one. Chemical Laboratory of the Cali-
7,52 p.m.-- available for immediate occupa hundred miles away. In Britain, on There is just enough strangeness to fornia Institute of Technology here. Dr. Kassel bases his work on 're- tion. For further particulars re- the other hand, where all can read, delay the galloping eye and. to give garding rental, please apply to the all are vulnerable. The advertiser the ear its opportunity. In the cent theories of P. A. M. Dirac, City Government of Peking."
can tell the traveller passing same way I relish a book printed Prominent British physiciat; on the Glories of Other Days. through Yorkshire where to buy before the long."" went out of nature of the proton that makes up The Summer Palace as most beefsteaks in London. He has only fashion, partly because that un- the inner part of the atome of mat- tourists know, is one of the show to attract our eyes to his print to familiar letter ever eo slightly holds ter. According to these theories, places of the ancient capital. It get read. It is a melancholy me back. And it occurs to me that the electrons, the other parts of the was the particular pride of the thought that if only reading were here is the best of all arguments in atoms, can exist in certain states ancient capital, It was the par- a good deal more difficult we should favour of simplified spelling (not in which Its maag is negative, or less than nothing. In such a state, ac- ticular pride of the Empress be spared the sight of those horrible in newspapers, but elsewhere). Dowager Tsu Hai, who ruled China pages twenty feet high beside a Those who urge simplification of cording to Dr. Kassel's summary of with a despotic firmness for forty, country road telling us that we spelling assume that whatever speil- the Dirac theory, the electron's should be welcome somewhere where lag is adopted will be uniform and energy la also negative, or less than History records that she divert we do not want to go.
none at all, and becomes stili less [that it will make reading easter even ed millions in silver for the repair
The Education Acts are, I sup than it is. I see a faint hope that the faster, it moves. Dr. Kassel of her summer home which had pose, primarily to blame, but after it might be used to make it more derives mathematically an equation"The Punch and Judy Show", been appropriated for a Chinese them the modern development of the difficult. If every man spells for which perailts a "vanishingly amall "Our result may be regarded as cess of Japan in the Sino-Japanese There was a time when a newspaper and if he spells the same word dif- navy, and thereby assured the auc-newspaper which they made possible. [himself, as opce upon a time he did. amount of matter."
in some
measure supporting the was a handwritten letter of gossip. ferently in different places, as once The advertisement is apparently which, when it
came from town, upon a time was no reproach to him. I view that if any matter is to be sleep in my Heart" designed for the foreign ere, but would suffice & countryside for a
we shall again be reading letter by preserved in the final equilibrium of it seems unlikely that any for fortnight. Then it became a print letter, forming the words, listening the universe it must be rescued by eigners will be attracted. The ed follo sheet. Today, spread out, to catch the sound of them. Sound the tendency of matter toward wooden residences in the Summer it is as big as a blanket, and we gat once again will be the medium, not Palace have been permitted to de-a new one twice a day. It is only sight, and good books will be able "But the evidence of astronomy aug cay, and while the surroundings when a newspaper is a rarity that to count on good readers-Arthurgests that the stars are constantly
it gets read in full. Coming across Ranson in Manchester Guardian. an odd copy when in foreign parts.
years.
war,
NOT PROVED.
Peak Servant Gets Free.
even
aggregation.".
Dr. Kassalaaya.
8.21 p.
Winnie Melville.
"Elegie" (Tschaikowsky, Op. 48),
Philadelphia String Orch. "Impromptu in A Flat",
8.27 p.m.
8.34 p.m.
Harold Baur (Piano).
Gracie Fields. 8.40 p.m. “Violeta”. "Little Grey Home in the West",
Derek Oldham, 8.47 pm.
De Groot and His Orchestra:
8.53. p.m.- "Mighty Lak' a Rose",
Paul Robeson 9 p.m.-Weather Report.. 9.05 p.m.-Programma of Dance
11 p.m.-Close Down.
gaining matter in the form of dust Music (Victor Records) by and meteors, transforming it into courtesy of Messrs. Mostrie; & Co. radiation and sending it back into space; this may mean, of course;" that the universe cannot save Its matter by any device and that it is steadily fading away. On the other hand the evidence of the cosmic raya may be supposed to indicate that In Bangkok, May 18. the depths of space radiation la
SIAMESE AVIATOR.
Killed in Mid-Air Collision.
GRAF BACK HOME.
Has it
ever occurred
WHY JUDGES WEAR WIGS.
symbol of their office, and, LTHOUGH judges don a wig as
learning in the Law, it is really a
like barristers, as a token of their
relic of the days when wigs were
worn by everybody in the world of
fashion,
"..
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are undoubtedly picturesque, it is doubtful if any foreigner would care to add to the "tourist attrac-I have read the whole of it, even tiona" for which the Summer
the advertisements, and found some Palace justly renowned.-
Ja Christian Science Monitor.
assuagement of my home-sickness In learning that, if I had been In! Britain two months before, I could have had a chance of buying "A New Semi, 4 beds., 2 ent., kit, acul, dns. rm. gar. el. pwr.," by applying
A tragedy of the Fair has converted back into matter; if this to a letter.and a number "c/o M/C occurred in the death of Lieutenant process is occurring it can only Guard." In such drcumstances Colonel Phra Amor Saktavudh in an mean that the foregoing calculation, these cryptograms became accident in the United States of and all others of a similar nature, Mr. M. K. Lo to-day appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell to de. romantic literature. (I have enough America, where he has been study are utterly incorrect." fend the Peak house servant who Welsh blond in me to be able to ing aviation was earlier in the week remanded pronounce them as they stand.) The fatal accident took place on But normally, in Britain, people do Thursday at about 4 p.m., when a on a charge of possession of sedi not, read the whole. paper. There is plane in which Phra Amor was fly-Three Weeks to Tour the tious literature on Jardine's Bridge. He said that he wished too much of it. Instead they have ing crashed with another in mid air. further remend to take instruc-by practice learnt to look through Both machines fell to the ground tions from his client
it in such a way that they can be resulting in the instant death of the Mr. Lindsell remarked that he confident that nothing of interest Siamese airman and an American
the early Egyptian mummies had remanded the accused in to themselves has escaped them pliot in the other machine, while The Graf Zeppelin moored here In Greece, they were frequently order that the prosecution could Professional journalists look another occupant was seriously Into-day thus completing the round used for theatrical purposes, and fight from South to North America we read that the tyrant of the play prove that the documents were throust as many as a dozen papers Jured he seditious, but even if this was in an hour or so, and when they
Details of the accident are still in three weeks-Reuters usually wore a black wig and beard, done it did not mean that he would have done know very well what there lacking The first news was receive
the youthful hero fair curls, and convict because there was no is. In each. But even the man who ed here at the Ministry of Foreign An unknown Chinese male, aged the dishonest slave red hair. How evidence against the accused, on runs through one paper only, be Affairs, the dispatch being sent by about 25 years, was killed at mid-like the modern comedy sketch, in facts. Therefore he thought tween his breakfast and his work Momthao Amoradat, Siamese Minis fight yesterday by being-Enocked which the Dlain" is almost there was no sense in further ads performs a feat at once astonishing ter in Washington. Full particu- down by a Kai Tak motor big as he invariably dark and sinister-look- journing, the case and end; astonishing because of the lers were to follow by letter, fried to dash across Gascoigne Road ing, the herd fair and handsome, Detective Sergeant O'Donovan, large area of printed matter which Instruction was vdred to the in front of the oncoming vehicle and the village idiot crowned with in reply to the Magistrate agreed be succeeds in surveying, and sad Slamess Minister that the remains
a mop of flaming red hair that the prosecution was not now because the habit he acquires of of Phra Amor were to be cremated the Great War with the Siamese The fashionable ladies of Rome prepared to prove that the docu- thus surveying print grows upon in America, and brought back to Expeditionary ments were seditious.
him
Mr Lindsell, said that he was
of the constable that the
not satisfied with the
had himself thro
Therefore he would
hether
fare seditio
the Americas.
Friedrickshafen. Yesterday.
at last he finds it difficult glam News of the death had been tinguished hims conveyed, to the bereaved family | sirvice. - He was
* Pinu Amor » was 85 years old. French", decorati
Following his gradu
hen Military Cadet College
the service in the ca
but later if was“ transfer
Aaronautical* Departmen
from the America with LI
entered Luang Dovesr regiment than
to the ton there.
at his rank
Own requestHe went to France in Bangkok Dal
orce
Wigs have a very long history.
We find them adorning the heads of
dis also wore wige Evidently, “gentle- flying men preferred blondes, even In blent of those far-off days,for wiga of ent to golden hue were specially Imported Colonel from Germany. Women continued dhi more to favour coloured wigs for many #avlad years, but men selected imitations of real ba and soffan worst tham to
nature, rather
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