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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1931.
brought into closer association:" MOSLEMS' NEW IDEAS
EAST OF SUEZ.
Brief News Items From
Far and Near.
Emphatically appropriate and seasonable is a Christmas card just received by a Shanghal man from former resident of that city. The verse that the card bears reads: Blow the Work, and blow the Worry Blow the Hurry and the Scurry Taxes, Rates and all the Flurry
Cheerio
A
It's Christmaa.
passenger
for Colombo
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Bum-
The functional nervous dis-
(Continued from Pape 1.) cases, from the actual point-of view of the saving of life, may
The Conference'nims at securing not seem so important as gona general agreement on the broad feral surgery and clinical practice, principles upon which the constitu
yet from the point of view of the tion should be drafted, and it was
not expected that complete unant- Summumu|||||||||||ALA patient's happiness and efficiency mity would be reached on all points. in life they are equally important. Hopes that the Hindu-Moslem ques- not so It must be recognised that fre-tion might be settled have quently timely diagnosis and far been realised, but the view is taken in Conference circles that the treatment of psychic disorders absence of such settlement should may save the patient from Incar-not of necessity invalidate the work ceration in a lunatic asylum. De-of bullding up the consitution.
Communal Problem. finite types of psycho-neurosca Efforts to settle the communal as forma of in problem have not been relaxed, and may be diagnosed sanity, but the patient may be they will be the subject of further saved and restored to eficiency consideration at a mesting of the Minorities Sub Committeo this by an early recognition of the afternoon.
Last night, the Prime board the 8.9. City of Kimberley, which arrived in Colombo recently, nature of the illness and imme-Minister, who is Chairman of this diate treatment by suitable sub-committee, met the Aga Khan, died suddenly some hours after the
who was accompanied by Sir steamer had touched at Marseilles, psycho-therapy, The range of Muhammad Shan and Mr. Jinnah,
The passenger was discovered these possibilities is very wide, who strongly urged that the Prime lying prostrate in his cabin and the
officers immediately and the importance, therefore, of Minister's
policy ship's
assistance from few moned medical dealing with psycho-neurotic which is to be delivered in a
days should be accompanied by an ashore. conditions at the earliest possible announcement of satisfactory snfe- however, the passenger had expired. Another steamer, the R. L. Sta- moment is demonstrated.
guards for, the Moslem community. One of the most common of Meanwhile, three Hindu delegates mat, which arrived in Colombo re- mental diseases, known as the Messrs. Moonje, Jayakar and contly also lost one of her passeng- Tambe, in a letter to the Times,ers during the voyage out from It is reported that "anxiety neurosis," is to be no- again suggest that in view of the Rotterdam.
had committed ticed among men and women every deadlock the communal question be the passenger
They suicide by throwing himself over- day, and in nearly every case all handed over to arbitration.
suggest as suitable arbitrators Mr. board. they are aware of are feelings of Ramany. MacDonald. Lord Sankey. depression and irritation, and a Mahatma Gandhi, Professor Gil- Professor De sonve of hopelessness and in-bert Murray
Madaringo. feriority. By being placed in the
Premier's Speech. hands of a qualified and capable
The Prime Minister in a speech psycho-analyst, their "neuroses" at a dinner given last night by the to the may be removed, allowing them British Indian delegation
Round Table Conference, sold: to take up the battle of life as
"The form of the Indian constitu- normal, happy, and efficient creation is largely in the heads of Doc-
"The Donoughmore Constitution science. Research into physical tures. It is a matter of regret tor Moonje, Sir Muhammad Shaft is the biggest fraud perpetrated on conditions, including pathology in that the services of such a paycho- and Mr. Jinnah. I want the lion the people of Ceylon," said Mr. J. -I don't know which is the lion-Tyagaraja at a meeting of the re- all its branches, yielding results logist, who should also be a medi-to lie down with the lamb, and sidents of Chunnakam and the ad- not obtainable in when they do the constitution will joining villages in support of his either visible to the naked eye or ent man, are
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H.E. the High Commssioner has appointed Mr. Perey Tothill Allen, Affairs, Chinese Secretary for F.M.S., to be an official member of the Federal Council during the absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. J. Strachan, General Manager, F.M.S. Railways.
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in the
to the microscope, or measurable Hong Kong. The psycho-thera-emerge with great simplicity and candidature for the seat in various ways, has occupied so pist is now as necessary in a large quickly. I believe we are going to Legislative Council rendered vacant hammer out a constitution under by the death of Sir P. Ramanathan.
an Indian will not only be large a portion of the field that community as the surgeon and which
sense of those conditions which cannot be the physician, whom to a great happy. but will enjoy a
respect." British Wireless plumbed with the lens or scalpel extent he is replacing.
have been temporarily relegated
to
News in Brief.
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Service.
GLEE SINGERS.
BOOKING OPENS ON MONDAY FOR SEASON HERE.
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Grosvenor, Mr. Gilbert Hover Editor-in-Chief of the National Geographie Magazine, has an- nounced that the most completely expedition in equipped Asiatic modern times is soon to be or- The plan is for the Na ganised. tional Geographic Society to co- operate with M. Georges Marie- Booking will open at Moutrie's Haardt, of Paris, in sending out, Monday (19th inst) for the next March, eight eaterpillar cara, short season of Mr. Edward Brans-with scientists versed in a dozen combe's 10 Westminster Glee Sin branches of learning, to study gera, to commenco in the Theatre 5,000 miles of little-known territory Royal the following Monday, Janu-between Beirut, Syria, and Peking. ary 26,
The main object of the Westmin-
Mr. J. S. Thomson, manager for ster Glee Singers' world tours-the present one has lasted nearly three Barlow and Co. in Singapore and years and embraced Canada, U.S.A., niso Vice-Consul for Spain, who
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the background. There are oven a few physicians to whom, psycho-therapy still remains ana- Mr. H. A. Jones, secretary thema, and in everyday use the Messrs. Moutrie and Co., died at epithet neurotic frequently car-Home on December 27. ries a sense of reproach in refer-
The lowest open air temperaturo ence to discorders supposed to be yesterday was
42 degrees. The "imaginary" in the sense of have humidity was 44 degrees at 10 am. ing no real existence, hardly to be and 35 degrees at 10 p.m. taken seriously beyond the ad- Dame Clara Butt
Mr. ministering of an occasional seda- Kennelly Rumford arrived this tive.
morning on the s.8. Talma and are During and after the War there residing at Repulse Bay Hotel. were rapid changes, and our at- The funeral of Mr. William R.Australasia, Malaya, and Manila-retired at the end of the year,
tention
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is to revive an interest in the na- will leave for Home this month. tional music of the Old Country, in He took over the management in traditional airs of England, Scot agreed with the head office that he
was compelled to this Barr took place at Happy Valley yesterday, the service being con- Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1931. branch of clinical medicine. The ancted by the Rev. LN. Watkins. in the form of the folk songs and the early part of 1922, and it was
importance with which it was Many friends attended, and there now viewed was not shown only was a large number of beautiful by the establishment of special wreaths.
PSYCHO-THERAPY.
which
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land, Ireland and Wales.
should leave Malaya, where he has Nowadays, there is an ever-in-been for nearly 16 years, at the end creasing appreciation of these of 1930. He may possibly join clinics for the practice of paycho-
The friends of Mr. J. J. Hirst, beautiful melodies, many of which the head office in Manchester. Mr.
successor, both "All's wrong with, the world," therapy, but by the fact that all who is bring seriously ill with are being utilised in all forms of Thomson's might have been the verdict of those medical men who were to diphtheria in the Kowloon Hospital, composition, including very im- manager of Barlow & Co. and Vice- has been with an Interesting Williams, who Browning had he been acquainted to take positions as chairmen of will regret to learn that, although portant works for orchestra. Com- Consul for Spain, la Mr. F. H.. with modern psychology. For, if Pensions Boards throughout the in his condition yesterday, it is still development of the new
a slight improvement was reported munity singing is
trend, Barlow and Co. In Shanghal and
Kuala Lumpur. clearly indicates we are to believe Dr. P. Fennelly, country were expected to study very grave, he having had a relapse very widespread demand for some- LL.D., ninety per cent. of men the elements. of psycho-therapy. this morning.
thing in the nature of genuine Flying Officer Matthews, accom- and women in the civilised world
Further evidence of the im-
music and quite possibly the next panied by Lieut. Grylls R. E. do not lead normal, happy lives.portance with
Not being able to give a reason-step will be to make part-ainging a attached to R.A.F. headquarters, which psycho-able excuse for having possession
compulsory subject in all our accomplished a height record for A large number of men, he as-therapy is now being regarded is of a pair of pince-nez, Tsol Muk schools.
India when he climbed 24,000 feet serts, practise various forms of to be found in the report of the (30), a coolfe, was fined $20 or, in Mr. Branscombe was delighted to above Delhi in 50 minutes in a ser- perversion, and the system of recent sub-Committee
default, three weeks' imprison- find that in New Zealand this hand vice Wapite, thereby, obtaining of the ment, at the Kowloon Magistracy aiready been started, with a train-wonderful view of the snowclad birth control is not only respon- National Council for Mental to-day. The value of the pinceing school for pupil teachers in the Himalayas without leaving the sible for female diseases and can- Hygiene, an extract from which nez was $10.
art of voice production. It should capital. cer, but leads to a marked depres-runs, as follows:-
not be forgotten that the British sion and sense of inferiority in Such an analysis betrays only yesterday sent to the Tung Wah race is, and always has been, pre- the male. We are not sufficiently too clearly the utter inadequacy Hospital, after being found by the eminent in choral singing. conversant with the more biologi-of arrangements as they now that she came down from San Mel
Police, in New Street. She stated FLAT RANSACKED. cal side of psychology to refute exist for the treatment of pa with her brother, who is a mendi these statements, but they do ap-tients suffering from uncertified cant, and who left her because she pear to be rather exaggerated and and uncertifiable mental die was sick. based upon assumption. The lec orders. Speaking of the huge tures which Dr. Fennelly has majority of the population, it
Lung Leung-ki (10), a girl, was
given in Hong Kong, character-may truly be said that there are, CORRESPONDENCE.
ised as they are by an eloquence, indeed, no facilities for trant-
MATINEE PERFORMANCES,
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The inquiry was resumed recent-
ly before Mr. 0. F. Oorlof, Addi- tional Police Magistrate of Colom. bo, into the case in which Mr. M. Thiagarajah is being charged with
STUDENT HELD UP WITH TOY having fraudulently uttered three
PISTOLS.
A daring armed robbery is xs- ported to have taken place at six o'clock this morning, the victim being Leung Kwok-chiu, aged 16, a student.
It is stated that four men parti.
a wit, and a sense of the dramatic ment worth speaking of, and that typically Irish, should be quite practically nothing is done to re- To the Editor of "China Mall"cipated in the affair, and that they valuable to young men and women lieve the great suffering which is Sir-May I suggest to the West were armed with two toy pistola, į
forged promissory notes aggregat- ing Rs. 4,875′′ and having com- mitted crimal breach of trust in respect of Rs. 44,172 entrusted to him by the Hong Kong and Shang- hal Bank in October, 1920.
Ten Years Ago.
'I From the "China · Mail?" or January 15, 2021.)
'To-day's 'dollar is worth 2/11
who have reached adolescence associated with mental disorder minster Glee Singers to have these implemente, they ascended to a dagger and two knives, With without being able to face the until such time as the patient be-matinee performance during theft the second floor of 26 Bonham facts and realities of Life with comes certiflable and is sent to a
short season here? (If such has Road; and, after overcoming the courage and assurance. But Dr. mental hospital result which is to be hoped, for the sake of fa
not already been arranged.) It resistance of Leung, ransacked the Fennelly, who was formerly a could" and would be avoided in both children and parents, that a They decamped with a haul of ¦ 7/36.---- President of an organisation call
all many cases if it were not for the matinee can be given on a Satur- money, jewellery and clothing, the ed the British Association of present apathy in dealing with the fa, this respect it le mode amount of which cannot yet be as-As a result of a disastrous' fire Practical Psychology, can hardly situation
grettable that the A.D.C: and the certained. It is perfectly Philharmonic Society never give be accused of being a scientific apparent that something should matinees on Saturdays. “Why↑ ** thinker at least his lectures are be done to investigate the status Another suggestion: Why can- little more than fluent orations of of the mentally trained nurse, to Saturday forenoons. And why not the cinemas give matinees, on fatherly advice. It is difficult to make it easier for generally cannot - they give a special pro- explain to an uninitiated audience,ined nurses to obtain mental sramme for children, say, once a however, the principles of paycho-
month Finally when they have experience and conversely special picture (apart from the logo in scientific language.
secure general fraining for those feature film) suitable for children, The study of functional nerv- who have previously received why don't they announce then be ous diseases has only compartmental training The two forehandl
recently, takezin recognis
branches of the nursing pro Yours, etc, ed place as a branch of medical fession
Kong,
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