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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931.
Falling from the third floor of MISTRANSLATIONS.
a house in the courts of construe- tion at Tai Nam Street, a woman, Cheung Kau (51) was killed yes. terday afternoon.
Six months hard labour was im pased an Kwak On, a banishae, who was sent away for Ave years in November, 1927. for returning within the prohibited period.
PITFALLS PARTICULARLY
DANGEROUS.
SIMILAR SOUNDS.
The following letter appeared in the Observer.
POST OFFICE LOSS.
DEATH OF MR. T. M.-.
PERPETUO.
SUDDEN INDISPOSITION.
News of the death of Mr. Tito - Marla Porpetuo, Assistant Superin- of Mails, G.P.O., which Sir, Mr. Anderson ought to be tendent successful with his proposed pub- occurred suddenly. In the Govern- To-day's fairy story-All the lication of a handbook on pitfalls ment Civil Hospital last evening. It came as a great shock to his many patriotle Associations of the Colony in translations from French.
to H.M. should Interest all students of the friends. cabled congratulations
not only Up to last week-end Mr. Perpetuo King George on the 21st anniver- French language, und
usual good of was apparently in his of his sary
accession to the the professional translators
The pitfalls are parti- health and was attending to his barks. Throne.
cularly dangerous in words of work. He became suddenly
in- Found unconscious in a lane at similar sound and similar spelling, disposed, and it was considered ad- the rear of 545 Shanghai Street at such as "resumer" and "resume," visable to remove him to hospital, 11.30 o'clock last night, a Chinese "sensible" (French) and "sensible" where he passed away,
Mr. Perpetuo had been in the ser- woman, stated to be about 36 yones (English), and a host of others. of age, was removed to the Kwong The Italian author. De Amicis, vico of the Government for almost Wah Hospital. Her
and gives an amusing example of a 33 years, and a more hard working address are at present not known to similar pitfall in his book on man than he it was hard to find.
Spain, when he records an address Born on January 3, 1882, Mr. the Police.
given In Itallon by a Spaniard who Perpetuo was just over 49 years of He
name
On arrival at Hong Kong last meant to pay him a special com- age at the time of his death. night the master of the a.s. Tai pliment by calling him "molto was a few months over 16 years of Shan, reported to the Police that ut affamota," thinking of the Spanish age when he entered Government which means service ad a clerk on August 1, 1898. about 7.30 p.m. yesterday, whilst Word "afamado,"
33 Years Service. the ship was on its way from Canton famous, while the Italian word
The whole of his 38 years' ser- to this
Chinese (not derived from "fama," but port, 2
vice were spent In the G.P.O., pre- mak, named Li Kwan (30), who from "fames") means starving.
Mr. Anderson is right also in motions coming to him as under:- was travelling no a first class pas-
Second Grade Clerk, January senger, jumped overboard and dis-peinting at possible International
1, 1907. appeared. The incident happened misunderstandings that might arise
First Grade Clerk, January when the Tai Shan was about 30 as a consequence of such errors translations. I am thinking in
1, 1918. miles from Hong Kong.
this connection of two very bad
Inspector of Postmen, August
1, 1923.
First Class Clerk, January
1, 1925.
Assistant
Superintendent of
Mails, March 1, 1925.
Class II, Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff, January 1, 1927.
Tak Chiu-chung, a Chinese coolie, cases that occurred during the pleaded not guilty at the Kowloon War. One of them was the now Magistracy this morning when notorious mistranslation of the German "Kadaververwertung,” charged with the larceny of a white.
was represented to mean blanket from the roof of a house which
corpses in Sai Young Chai Street yester- the bolling down of the day, the property of Mrs. Katie of the slain soldiers and inspired "Punch" to one of his wickedest Turnbull, # widow. Defendant
cartoons. The German word It speaks well for Mr. Perpetuo's said that he had picked the blanket up in a scavenging lane, and was "Kadaver." which means the car- ability that he acted as Superinten cays of an animal, was taken Indent of Mails from August 18, 1926, immediately arrested by a young the sense of the French word to June 10, 1927, during part of man. Three months' hard labour was imposed.
"leadavre."
Gorman National Anthem. Almost as bad was the render.
as possible, and to publish only
which time M. T Hynes, the those portions of radio pro-
Superintendent, was on furlough. grammes that are not in distinct
Mr. Perpetuo was a member for Imprisonment for fourteen days competition with the newspapers
with the option of a $10 fine was im-ing of the first line of the Ger- 1981 of the Committee of the in the Colony. Unfortunately posed on Yau Tam-tim at the Kow-un National Anthem, "Deutsch- Catholic Union Club, and for many land, Deutschland uber Alles" as years was an untiring worker in this effort is not universal either loon Police Court this morning, for meaning the claim of the Germans the cause of the poor of Hong Kong. in Hong Kong or in the Far East causing needless suffering to as a whole, probably owing to cargo of pigs which he was bringing to rule over all the world, while as a member of the St. Vincent de
the sense fe in reality merely: Paul Society. in from San Mei on beard his sam- "Germany (is dear to me) beyond the lack of a Newspaper Pub-
The deepest sympathy of his It was alleged that the small things." It is curious to note friends and colleagues will be ex- lishers' Association or Associa-pan was only a very small craft that this mistranslation has some tended to his family in their sad tions. In Shanghai, it is report-and that the pigs were tied to currency even now, more than ten bereavement.
years after the War.
The funeral takes place at ed, they have gone to the length pale by their feet and lay on their backs on the deck. No water was
An error of broadcasting "advertising supplied
of a more amusing Roman Catholic Cemetery this type was made by The Times in evening, passing the Monument at talks," a movement that is said animals.
the translation of a German sol-5.30. to be threatened for this Colony
dier's letter in which a number of French women who had visited
pan.
to the unfortunate
as well in the not distant future. OIL SCANDAL ECHO the battlefield to collect souvenirs
Here fees for radio licences go
into the coffers of the Treasury. ALBERT B. FALL'S CONVICTION | bande,"
CONFIRMED.
to
CONDENSED MILK.
Action By Nestle And Anglo-Swiss Co.
the
A final order was taken before
An
WAS:
ware 'referred to as "die Sau- This was translated as The fees paid by dealers in radio
"that gang of sows." Well it was not quite as bad as that, though parts go into the public purse,
Washington, April 6. not complimentary. I wrote The whole thing is under Gov-
Only the United States Supreme the editor at the time, pointing Mr. Justice Maugham in the Chan- ernment control, although there Court, the highest tribunal in the out that the German word "Sau," cery Division recently in the nc- exists an unofficial Broad-land, can save the aged and ailing used as a prefix, had lost its sting. tion brought by the Nestle & casting Programme Commit-Albert B. Fall, former Secretary giving us examples "Es ist ein Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Com-
(it 15 tee
miserable pany to restrain Quito Bocca, which is
of the Interior, from a term of im- Sauwetter". responsible
prisonment.
weather) and "Es ist mir sausch-proprietor of the Continental De. for the framing of the
To-day the Appellate. Court of lecht" (I feel beastly seedy), Tlicacy Restaurant, Crawford Street. Hong Kong, Wednesday. May 6, 1931. daily programmes, although not the District of Columbia upheld proposed to translate the word Baker Street, W., from passing off honoured with a place in the list the conviction and sentence passed "Saubande" by "Dirthy pack." de condensed milk net of the plain-
liberately inserting the Irish "tiffs' manufacture as Nestle'a, of Committees, etc., in the Civil on Fall in the lower courts.
interim Injunction. Fall was convicted on charges af The editor thanked me for my in- Press War on Radio. Service List for 1981. But an conspiracy to defraud, in connec- tereating communication, but con- granted by his Lordship on Febru-
to be inopportune to ary 24, idea is prevalent that the news-tion with the oil scandals of the allered it
Mr. Clayton, K.C., for the plain- tiffs, stated that A week ago we published in papers must publish every single administration of the late Presi- print it.
the parties had dont Warren G. Harding. He was
now agreed to a final order. our Radio
cable. Item contained in these daily sentenced to one year in prison Section M
There would be a perpetual under- gram circulated by the Associat-programmes, in the same man- and to pay a flue of $100,000.
inking by the defendant, who In spite of the serious stute of IS BRITAIN BEING LEFT BEHIND? would pay the taxed costs of the ed Press stating that the Ameri-ner as they asked in the early
action including the costs of the can Newspaper Publishers' Asso-days of the Broadcasting Studio is health and his advanced age, Fall, broken both physically and
German - Dutch Air Plans motion and 21 damages. ciation had adopted resolutions here to "co-operate" in the mat-mentally, must go to prison unless the
In The East. - calling for action designed to ter of furnishing news intended the Supreme Court reverses meet the competition of the radio for publication in the Presa to be ruling of the Apellate tribunal.
before publication! prison if the
Fall's physicians say he will die in
Berlin, April 8. 18 2 news-disseminating and broadcast
sentence
is made "It is possible that, to the Chin- advertising medium. One reso-Up to a point it may be consider-effective.
ese aviation line from Nanking to Berlin, there may be added an on- lution suggested that radio pro-jed a pleasure and a duty for the. . Conviction Confirmed.
In giving its decision In Fall's tirely German air route from Ber- grammes, "if published, should Press to combine with the Radio
case to-day the Appellate Court in to Shanghai." Such was the be handled as paid advertising." Department -both its official also affirmed the conviction of Mr. declaration made this morning by Court, Finchley Road, London, Another dealt with the investi- and unofficial elements - but Henry Blackmor and his sentence the Minister of Communications.
....
E. F. MARX. 12, Beethoven Street, Cologne.
:
AMY JOHNSON FINED.
Traffic Obstruction Caused By Car.
struction with her motor-car on
A bus:
Miss Amy Johnson, of Vernon
N.W.. уля Aned 108. by Sir gation of "the legality of the the last word really lies with the to pay a âne of G.$60,000. He was The Minister made public the Chartren Biron at Bow Street radio broadcasting of direct ad-newspapers as to whether or not convicted on a charge of contempt state of affairs regarding the police court for causing an ob of the United States. Senate for negotiations between Germany and Durember. 10. The case had been vertising."
they will permit any unfair en-hia refusal to testify as to his Japan on the subject of aviation. Adjourned because of her flight to The first resolution also pro-croachment on their legitimate knowledge af the transaction It is planned, for one thing, to Russia. vided that, inasmuch as the news-fleld. Here the thin end of the which plunged the country and its extend the line from Berlin to
It was alleged that Miss John- papers pay for the creation of all wedge has already been inserted, scandals in the history of the with Holland for the opening up Cockapur Street, for 35 minutes in Government into one of the worst Bagdad toward Tokyo, working in soh left her car at a bus stop in Press Association reports, a com but the Press would be blind to United States.
of the aerial traffic of the Dutch the middle of the day, She ex- mittee be appointed to confer its own interests were it not to Fall is alleged to have accepted Enst Indies. "with the Press Associations on take a combined stand now and a bribe for using his influence,
These negotiations are in good had no idea
pressed regret, saying that she
that it was has declared the question of broadcasting arrive at a united policy on the when he was Secretary of the In shape and France
stop. news reports, with the object, of lines of the resolutions adopted federal oil reserves to private in-
terior, to aid in transferring herself favourable to them.
Applications have been made, to: confining the broadcasting news reports to the Press Associations by the American Newspaper Pub-terests. For almost a decade he the Soviet Government to permit has been fighting unsuccessfully the torminus of the Deruluft Line to clear, his name, and the names (Deutsche Russische Luftgeselis- of those implicated with him in chaft) to be situated at Manchu. the various conspiracies which i
In this case the German Govern were unearthed after the sudden death of President Harding.
ment, in co-operation with the
To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%, Fall, once a member of the Chinese Government, would con-
The Hong Kong Intarport Cricket: The lowest open air temperature United States Senate and a power tinue the German-Russian line to Yesterday was 73 degrees. The in the Republican Party, is now Shanghal, thus duplicating the team will arrive in Shanghal about humidity at 10 am was 91 and at 70 years of age. For the past six Sino-German line.
"In any case, the Minister con-about May 80.
May 20, returning to Hong Kong", 4 pm; 87; /*
or seven years he has been serious-
The Shanghai'team maly ill and under the constant care sluded, "a direct service from Ber-will be selected by the Captain Te-day is the beginning of Sumor physicians
into Moscow and Shanghat is (Captain E. M. Barrett) and.. mer-According to the diary we = [It was reported yesterday that
Messrs. O'Hara, Wainwright and had a taste of it, however: In the Fall Had decided not to appeal to
Hayward, 1 late lamented Spring into other and the Supreme Court.]
and the newspapers, and to bring about the proper regulation of such news broadcasting by the Press Associations and the news papery.*******
lishers' Association.
News in Brief.
-
In Hong Kong and in other parts of the Orient a great deal of sympathy will be felt on the part of the Press with the resolu- tions adopted by the American Newspaper Publishers' Associa tion Week by week and month by month, since the inauguration of radio studios, there has been Leung Yung, Li Sul, Li-Tung, Lt
Iniminent,”
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "Ching. Mad"
May 6, 1921.3
A general analysis of registra-The Interport match will pro tion at the university of Alberts bably take place on or about May complied by the registrar, shows in- 28 and the following days.. Hong
Yick, Fong Him and Chiu Tack, five Furniture manufactured in the creases in practically every departKong will be represented byretu witnessed a steady encroachment Chime from Java, were produced 367 establishments engaged in the ment, the total of 1,788 being 226 G. R. Sayer (Captain), Capt. P. of broadcasting on the legitim-at the Kowloon Magistracy. ¿ this Industry in Canada had e value of higher than in 1980. The largest Havelock Davis, Lt. J. B. Franke,.“ ate sphere of hewspapers,
aners." "An morning and charged with swing over 344,000,000 in 1929 Practi- categories this year area Arts and R.N., E. B. Reid, F. J. de, Home, effort has been made by this and away on the skerdus, to Hong cally the entire output of furniture Applied Selences, 718 and 288 re C. Stapleton, Capt. Oliver, F. H. Kong! ~~ All ~defendants pleaded made In Canada is sold in the spectively; Medicine, including Farthing," Webster, Bagnall our Sunday contemporary toully and were sent to fall for Dominion. The value of furniture dentistry and nursing, 822 and Rumfahm, and two others not yet Mimit this encroachment) as far six weeks with hard labour, exported In 1929 was only $381,764. Agriculture 222,-3)
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