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News in Brief.
There were only ten cases called at the Kowloon Magistracy during this morning's sitting Including; two larcenies, in which all the offen- ders were juveniles.
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930.
NO BRITONS.
TROUBLE IN WEST AUSTRALIA.
AGREEMENT BROKEN.
Townsville, June 12.
MRS. C. ROSSELET.
FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY
. CEMETERY.
FLORAL TRIBUTES.
There was a large number of
Arrested by a detective, in the uct of taking some wood from the Sam Kee Timber yard, in Canton Road, Chinese lad, on his ap- pearance before Mr. Whyte-Smith British workers again suffered friends and relatives present at the Kowloon Magistracy this when a sign-up was made at the at the funeral of Mrs. Rosselet, morning, was ordered to receive Victoria and Maenade sagar mills wife of the secretary of eight strokes with the rattan.
this morning.
the Hong Kong Amusement Co., At Victorin of 283 employed. Limited, which took place yester- Mr. H. R. Butters, formerly an 262 were Italians and 21 Britons, day evening at the Protestant assistant in the Secretariat for white in the Macnade area only Cemetery, Happy Valley.. Chinese Affairs, presided in the seven British were signed on out The following is a list of friends Second Court at the Central Magis-of 391, the other 384 being Ita. and others who sent wreaths:- tracy to-day, vice Mr. A. W, G. Hans. Grantham, who has taken up his Орал fighting may possibly appointment as Secretary of the break out at Tully where, the recently appointed Retrenchment farmers executive repudiated an Committes.
agreement, with the A.W.U. give preference to Britishers,
Sorrowing Husband, Your Loving Children, Bene, Gcorgie and Dickie; Allen and Lucy, Mother. Doreen and Camily, Aunt Mamsie and children,
Captain and Mrs. Prigent, Mr. and
to Mr. Y. Abbass, Mr. and Mrs. Ellas, It Mr and Mrs. H. J. Fox, Mr. and A contractor'a workman named has been announced that 291 Bri Howard. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kew Mrs. E. Mow Fung, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Chung Chi (28), who lived in alons and 149 foreigners will air. and Mrs. J. M. McKenzie. Mr. and matshed in Shape Road, Kowloon signed on there on Monday.
Mrs. Shi Yu-man, Mr. and Mrs. A mass meeting City, near the site of a new building |
of British J. Neves, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. in the course of construction, was workers will be. held to-morrow, Noronha, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Peters, electrocuted yester.iny through and it is probable that there willr. and Mrs. M. A. R. Souza, Mr. coming in contact with an electric be a complete stoppage of work Mrs. and the Misses White.
until the agreement is honoured. Mina Assumpeno, Misses, K. and --Christian Science Monitors.
M. Grose.
cable In the course work in the new building.
of
his
For allowing his dog to be on the
road unmuzzled and unleashed, Mr. J. M. Jack, managing director of Wm. Jack & Co., Ltd., who resides at 6, Essex Crescent, Kowloon Tong, appeared at the Kowloon, Magis- tracy this morning. He admitted the offence, and Mr. Whyte-Smith imposed the usual fine of $5.
report.
According to a Police James Murray,
a private of the Agyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who had been absent from his "talkie" Regiment since Saturday, was found
by the Police nt the Kowloon-|
films, is one of the gloom. Canton Railway Station yesterday. Empire. He was taken into custody and sub sequently handed over to the military authorities.
HOW TO ADJUDGE
PERSON INSANE?
and Mrs. W. K. Way.
I. Ahwer and E. Carvalho, W. Allen, S. Asis, J. H. Brekhouse, R. Asa, E. Ford, J. S. Gubbay, R. C.
is
(Continued from Page 1). And assuming that' a man under the delusion that he is being attacked by someone, would not that rive rise to a homicidal Impulse? -If he is deluded that way, it is quite natural that he will be think ing of self preservation.
In some forms of insanity the bomicidal impulse may become very strong in a man?—Yes.
Impossible and Incompatible. Could that not be an instance cannot say, but I think it is where suicidal impulse coupled?
Impossible and incompatible where ů person thinks of committing homicide and suicide at the time.
iest spots of the The Malaprops will probably tell us that we should be in bed by nine o'clock and would even like
A three-year-old Chinese girl, to influence the I.G.P. to have the living on the second floor of 9 Yu curfew introduced in Hong Kong Wah Street, Wanchai, was yester that such a homicidal action may
for that purpose!
day removed to the Tung Wah Hus- pital 'suffering from kerosene There is nothing outrageous in poisoning. She was stated to have
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Hangom and family, J. Landolt and family. J. E Noronha, N. Saenger, W. Ward, D. C. Wilson, A. V. Young. Cheng Wai-tong. C. Mik, Lo Shiu- Jeung. Lau Kai, Lo Kan, Loo Kan, Le Wal-son, Mia Man-sing, Wong Hoi-soy, Woo Hol.
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PEPPER IN EYES.
CHINESE MERCHANT ROBBED OF BAGS OF SILVER.
proprietor of a store in Market You will agree with me, then,
Kinng, July 2 While Towkay Ow Yong Hong, not show itself in its early stage? Street, Kiang, was on his way home I would like to say that it could be carrying $1.400 in notes and ensh, What does running amok convey men who threw pepper in his eyes he was attacked by a gang of five
a
iFrom the "China Mail,"
July 17, 1920.]
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At the Supreme Court yesterday. when the Crimina! Sessions opened, after seven persons had been called to serve on the jury to hear the manslaughter charge in the Chief Justice's Court and after a delay of about 20 minutes, they were re- quested by Mr. C. D. Melbourne, the Registrar to return at 2.16 p.m.
a cabaret. It is merely an enter-drunk the oil thinking it was water. observed.. tainment which lasts longer than The girl's condition was so serious to you?-From that I would infer and robbed him of two bags contain other forms of entertainment. It the Government Civil Hospital.
that she was later transferred to that the person has temporarily lost Ing $60 worth of silver. combines the pleasures of food;
his sense of reason, and his power Later, one of the gang was arrest- and drink with those of music and Kwok Ping, a seaman of the Yau-of control.
mati ferry launch Man Ying, reporti dancing, and, if managed by an ed to the Police that at about 9 last agras to the test laid down by Mac-
Counsel asked witness if he woulded by the police in Kuala Lumpur. experienced producer, can be the night, just after the launch had left Norton as to how to judge a person means of bringing artistic talent the Yaumati typhoon shelter, a Insane. The first thing would be
Ten Years Ago. before the public. Many clever Chinese female, aged about 35 for a person to show that. he did years, who was in the first class, not know what he was doing at the dancers have been "discovered" suddenly jumped overboard, and time, and the second thing to show in cabaret.
immediately disappeared.
that what he was doing at the time H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is though the launch was stopped and he did not know TVES wrong.-- Witneas agreed, and said that run- one of the many distinguished/a search made, the unfortunate woning amok compiled with one of the
man did not reappear. patrons of the cabaret, and may
two tests, but he would not agrea often be seen in London with a Mr. G. Wilfred Cockburn, of the that in the absence of motive
be the Hong Kong. Thursday, July 17, 1930.party at the Kit Kat. In Paris, Shanghai office of Callender's Cabic murder might be said to
some of the cleverest dancers ap-on the Empress of Russia, and is
and Construction Co., Ltd., arrived ect of an insane person
Witness further said that he | pear at midnight in the cabarets, staying at the Peninsula Hotel. could quote authority from Taylor after their performances in the Mr. Cockburn's visit is in connec-on Medical Jurisprudence, where it tion with the building of the news laid down that motive was not The news that an application parties until a late (or early) hour. New Territories
theatre, and entertain supper overboard transmission line in the indicative of a person's sanity, but for tho China that it was only an argument in has been made to the Police for The erroneous impression which Light and Power Co. Mr. H. Ward- that person's favour, the licensing of r midnight cafe quite a number of people have of law Somervall will arrive on the
The case is proceeding. in Hong Kong, to be run on cabarets is of dark, underground be in charge of the erecting of the 3.9. Rajputana from Home and will cabaret lines, has no doubt shock-places where free fights are the overhead line. ed our Malaprops. Horror has usual thing and the dancers are been expressed in some quarters mauled by drink-sodđeri men as even at the eventuality of "brazen, they "shimmy" around the tables. painted, naked, and more or less No manager of a respectable middle-aged females, prancing cabaret would tolerate anything 61 with horrible forced gaiety and of the kind, any more than loose fixed, toothy grins" in this respect-behaviour in a local ballroom able, dull, puritanical corner of would be permitted. Another the Far East. Apparently a grim aspect of the cabaret is that of section of the community, which finance. Prices of admission and
CABARET.
NO MORE WAR.
NATIONS SIGN TREATY OF RENUNCIATION.
SIX COUNTRIES LEFT.
The
Rugby, Yesterday.
TAX ON SHIPPING.
In the afternoon, several of the jurymen were absent. Taking ad- vantage of the fact that they were staying in Kowloon, they decided not to take the risk of making a trip to Hong Kong, as notice had been given that the ferries might
Ten Years Hence.
.t
[From the China Mail of July 17, 1940.)
A proposal to institute income-stop at any moment. tax in Ceylon and to apply it to When opening the Court; in the Shipping calling at Colombo, is afternoon, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, now causing some concern, said that he wished to make an ex- The proposal is particularly re-planation as to what had happened gretted, because it is at variance in the morning, both for the satis- with the successful movement in faction of the public and the. recent years to restrict the tata- officers of the Court as well. us, tion of shipping to the countries more particularly, for the satisfac- of ownership, and many reciprocal tion of the jurymen. agreements have been made ou He said when he opened his this basis. The position in Ceylon court in the morning, he found the is both self-sufficing and philoso-the charges for food and liquor
ia, of course, different. The port prisoners had not been brought phical, is suffering from filmitis, are usually high, so that general-Affairs, Mr. Arthur Henderson, said number of ships in the course of to its root and found that the Secretary for Foreign of Colombo is visited by a large into, Court. He traced the matter Ostensibly they have never seen ally speaking the entertainment is that all the countries invited by the voyages to and from the East, but Police Department was at fault, cabaret decently produced. They confined to the more affluent. Government of the United States a rolutively small amount of cargo and he had written to the Captain have acoured the international The Licensing Board would be to participate in the Treaty for the by cach vessel is loaded or dis- Superintendent of Police very slums of Shanghai with evangeli- advised to consider the applica-eo with the exception of Argentina, ed in shipping circles that the cost
renunciation of war had now done charged there, and it is suggest- strongly about it. cal leers, and pounced upon a tion very carefully from all sides Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, San of collecting taxation on the really low-class "house" Or else before hastily rejecting it in the Salvador and Uruguay. There are carnings of vessels at the port they have formed their impres-face of silly opposition by the British Wireless Service.
61 signatories of the Treaty. (the actual earnings could only be. sion upon a visit to the cinema Malaprops. The main question to
ubject of estimate) would be out of proportion to the yield of the during the showing of a sixth-be considered is not whether it
tax. Presumably, in the course rate cabaret film dealing with will pay or whether Hong Kong Five hundred delegates, repro- of a year, a considerable amount At a meeting of the Light Aero the underworld of Chicago. "needs" a cabaret. That is en- the world, including Prince Toku-port by passengers who go ashore scheme for advertising on the ex- senting thirty-one Parliaments of of money must be spent at the Club it was intimated that the Such views are usually precon-tirely a matter for the applicants. gawn of Japan, are attending the and by shipping companies in re-teriors and Interiors of planes. ceived with a bias. The wowows, The vital point is whether its in twenty-sixth conference of the In-spect of port dues and the pur had had to be abandoned, the blues and "kill joys" of this city stitution is likely to have an ad- ter-Parliamentary Unfen, which chase of fuel and stores. In so principal advertisers stating that shrink from the very name verse moral effect. And, with such The Duke of Sutherland presided. covered by the shipping com-ly in the China Mail and the Sun- opened. In the House of Loris, far as the taxation was not re newspaper advertising-particular- "cabaret" and indignantly oppose knowledge of cabarets all over the Mr Arthur Henderson in a panies from the Imperial Govern-day Herald-had by long experi with shocked, uplifted hands, the world as we possess, we have no speech of welcome and the Gov-ment, its coat might be expected encs been proved to be the most granting of a licence. Probably hesitation in declaring that, it ernment was looking to the con- to be reflected in the freight rates effective and profitable, being Benedicks, they have to properly conducted and super among nations. 46
ference to promote the peace spirit and passage moneya paid in
Ceylon and, in any case, it would Owing to the large exodus of Far from opposing it, we do not vised, Its effects would be more Lord Cecil in an address said represent a complication and ac- Europeans from the Peak for the
an address feel that a cabaret, if managed beneficial than baneful. A bright-movement towards peace, import found troublesome at other ports Bay district it has been found that while there was a general countancy of a kind that has been heights of Kowloon and the Hebe upon regular, well-conducted lines, er Hong Kong would attract more ant leaders of opinion in more during the last few years and has possible to place three large would in anyway darken the visitors and tourists and the local than one country wore preaching led to the agreements between houses at the disposal of the Sani- moral glamour of Hong Kong or tradespeople would accordingly tion for war was the best guar-have not found it necessary to ar- for Europeans dear Mount Kellet. the hoary falsehood that prepara-different countries. Some lines tarium and Convalescent Home bring its young "bloods" to ruin reap considerable benefits in these antee of peace. He declared that range for all their fast ships to and disgrace. It would certain-times of depression. A cabaret the Naval Disarmament Conference call at the port, and doubtless all ly add a fresh touch of need
Notice of a question has been galety to the Colony,
Promoting Peace Spirit.
London, Yesterday.
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ven, be cultural" in so far had been conducted in a war at the considerations will be care-given by a member of the Sant may be the means of intro-mosphere. Urging disarmament, fully taken into account before tary Board as to when the mus
Lord Cecil welcomed M. Briand's the proposal, as it affects shipling order is likely-to-be-rescind-
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