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Hong Kong, Saturday, April 9, 1932;
Look Ahead!
There was large and representa tive gathering of mourners and friends and representatives of al sections of the Colony's community, present at the funeral of Mr. Malcolm Manuk, of the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co, Ltá,, which took place at the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley, yesterday afternoon.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932.
The Written Word.
WINSTON CHURCHILL WRITES ABOUT RELIGION
CHARMING STORIES OF CHINESE, INDIAN AND JAPANESE- PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT.
A Tale of the Canadian Prairie.
China Mail Reviews.
The chief mourner were Mr. T. M. Gregory, (brother-in-law), together The Inside of the Cup by Win- Alt across the scenes aimlessly, – with Mr. J. Russell, President of ston Churchill (Macmillan). while the two principal characters
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It is true that we get nothing whatsoever except pleasure from reading; it is true that the wisest of us is unable to say what that'
the Theosophical Lodge, Mr. A. Not a new book. It was publish appear too shadowy and evasive, it Stevenson, Manager of the Dairyjed first in 1913, since when there not much too unreal Eren the Farm, and the Hon. Mr. W. E. Lhaye been five other editions, white emeralds, around which the Shenton.
so far as I am aware, The edition story is draped clumsily, are. intro- The Rev. L N. Watkins read tho with which, I am concerned is that duced and exploited in Service, after which the remains of 1925.
Ipainfully amateurish and uncon- were taken to Sookunpoo: Valley, Old, as it is, it is yet modern and, vincing. It may be an "Incredible- where they were cremated in the as may be expected from the pen of Tale" but its incredibility is not in Japanese Crematorium.
(so distinguished a person, as the au- the least entertaining-R Those present at the funeral, injthor, an intelligent contribution to. addition to the chief mourners, ja problem which has been exercising How Should We Read a Book? were:--Messrs. H. Hallgren, H. A.the minds of men and women for so Gregory, H. A. Lammert, B... S. many years. The author candidly.
In the Brat place, a good reader Ford, D. M. Goodall, F. P. Frank-admits that it is a personal view of Will give the writer the benefit of lin, L. R. Andrewes, E. J. Ainslie, religion and not that of a trained every doubt; the help of all his im- J. Owen Hughes, J. D. Thomson, theologian..
agination; will follow us closely, DO. da Silva, Jean Hund, Mr. Churchill,: "after
interpret as intelligently as he can. Pestonjee, B. Pasco, Dedeoglou, years of experience and In the next place, he will judge with ̈ Ho Kom-ton, J. W. Carroll, fection," essays to reconcile the utmost severity. Every book, he LA. W. Brown, Wei Tat, modern thought with
will remember, has the right to be H. M. H. Esmail, B. W. Brad- ancient beliefs handed. down judged by the best of its kind. He bury, F. Linennen, R. K. Modi, through the centuries. Maybe, it will be adventurous, broad in his Ezra Abraham, H. Seth, J. H. Seth, would be more precise, to say, he choice, true to his own instincts, yet |E. S. Kom, W. S. Bailey, D. Tollan weka to reconeile those ancient be ready to consider those of other peo-***
D. C. Wilson, K. de.. 3. Robertson, liefs, with modern thought; that he ple. "This is an outline which can J. H. Ruttonjee, D. MacFarlane, seeks to harmonise, those ancient be be filled in at taste and at leisure, D. K. Kharas, A. Mackenzie, Cliefs with the light of the knowledge but to read something after this in the biblical aphorism "sufficient Gregors, H. W. Page, M. Miles, Mr. and the insight which is our's to fashion is to be a reader whom unto the day is the evil thereof." and Mrs. L. A. Tobias, Mr. and Mrs. day. If Mr. Churchill is not wholly writers respect. It is by the means Such an attitude must give way to Castro, Mr. and Mrs. Talati, Mrs. convincing, he does, at any rate, of such readers that masterpieces vision, and intelligent anticipation May Mr. and Mrs. Harriman, Rev. open up the way to another apare helped into the world."..
looking ahead.....
Karl Ludwig. Beichelt, Mrs. R. C. proach to so controversial an issue. Economy is a word which to-day Moses, Mr. C. A. Goldenberg, Mr.Well worth careful reading. readily falls from the lips of I. L. Goldenberg, and many others. Re authority when confronted by pro- The several hundred wreaths sent Kowloon is a rapidly developing|blems which require energetic fuck included one from "Your fond sister, Dreams and Delights by L. pleasure may be. But that pleasure area of the Colony. Here, there, ling. Like charity it is, we suspect, Mary," Aunty, Tigram, Harold, Adams, Berk. (Ernest: Benn, 7/6mysterious, unknown, useless as and
it leis enough...›› almost everywhere building being used as a cloak to cover many Mack^and Phyllis, Seth and Nellie, nat}; e. operations are being pushed on: sins of omission. The Hon. Mr. Henry and Pilar, Douglas and A collection of "fenthera" plucked hills are being torn down and J. P. Braga hit the nail on the head Mabel, Rugby and Ralph, Lily and from the White Swan of the World. lovelled; potential home lands are on Thursday when he commented on Dalay, Leo, Grace and Sophie, All", downy and, soft and mystic. being pegged out; and roads are what the Charmina of the Finance Gladys, Mabel and Johnny, Hika Charming stories of Chinese, Indian being widened and new ones built. Committee had to say about the pro- moosh and George, Tagik, Harry and Japanese philosophie thought and failure can be defined only by All this, no doubt, is a good thing vision of a children's playground in and Sarkies, Halk, Min and family, All cocooned in a wealth of enchant, what we are really trying to do. for Kowloon, and the Colony. Kowloom This is what Mr. Braga Sonný, and Archié:
ing imagery, also richly embroider. There are so-called failures who may Money is being invested, and son said:
Other foral tributes ware sent by ed-Decidedly good reading-R be splendid successes, and there are that money will begin to germinate, }·
many successes who prove in the "In other words, this is a very Sir Robert Ho Tung, Hon. Mr. as is the custom of seeds, and pro-
ECONOMIC SOLUTION of the W. E. L. Shenton, Hon. Mr. J. J. Gateway by John Beames end to be the saddest failures. There duce the means of multiplying
Paterson.
(Ernest Benn, 1/6 net).
is still such a thing as gaining the difficulties which presented them
This is the second of Mr. John whole world and losing our souls." money.
selves to the Government,”
Beames's novels. With it he con. There is no doubt that Kowloon
solidates the position, secured for not evils then certain disadvantages Tong standa sadly in need of a
himself in the arena of the novelist in its train.* Such, for example, children's playground. Not only is
with that, very well written and A gvercrowding and congestion needed from a health viewpoint,
vivid book
Army Without Ban ners." And these disadvantages take their but in order to provide some place, toll of the men and women and chil- other than the streets with their A strange narrative of a young The Canadian prairie, as in the the spot whither the star had bidden dren who, for many reasons, mainly attendant dangers to limb and life man's disappearance, feared death case of his first successful book, is thand; for, searching along the nar economic, are unable to get away where children may play and disport by drowning, and return after, more again the stage upon which, or the row ways of the village toward the from them.
It is a And the toll levied-| themselves.
pressing than a year's silence, was told in a background against which, do many fall of night, these rulers of tribes a heavy one is in the shape of ill-urgency...We wish to emphasise village near
Chipping Norton, queer, idiosyncratic, but delightful and expounders of doctine wonder----- health, disease, and even death. this point, also that other, of which Oxfordshire.
characters play their parts, finally ed greatly what should be disclosed we are convinced, that It will be Those who pay the heaviest price false economy in the long run to Harvey, whose home is at Bedding-space of time, flourish as does the among the people to denote a It is the story of Mr. Noel Austin confounding, the wicked who, for a to them: There was no excitement are usually children.
It is, therefore, of vital impor-seek "a very economic solution of ton, near Croydon His motor-car biblical bay tree. A book that has strange event; there were no wel
was found abandoned in November delighted me, tance that to-day, and not to-morrow the difficulties" to-day."
The Chairman of the Finance 1980 on the front at Brighton, with or the day after, that steps should be taken to provide the unfortunate Committee has assured MA Braga some of his clothes on the beach. 300
The Next Generation by J. D. when, at a word from King Malcher - people with amenities that will en- that the matter will be looked yards away.
Beresford. (Ernest Benn, 9d. net), the caravan stood still;・・ "It '15 the- Tato." We hope he will not only An account of his adventures has to cops, with the en-
A close, analytical study of those place," he cried, "for look! Here is; } vironment which is gradually being "look into" the matter but, what is been placed together by his rela-frequently, and heatedly discussed a flower, rayed like the star that has forced upon them. The amenities of yet greater importance, look tives, who are nursing him back and, in some circles, disparaged per guided us, and which is now even
to health, to which reference is being made ahead, both
But intensive development: of, at present, a restricted area brings, If
able them
are, of course, open spaces, parks and playgrounds for the children..
These are to-day regarded not as civic luxuries but essentials for the
:
News in Brief.
Hele K TUMEK
MAN WHO WAS MISSING A YEAR:
Virginia Woolf.
Failure.
The difference between success
The Chrysanthemum. The Chrysanthemum was born at the same time as the Babe off Bethlehem, and was the token to the wise men that they had reached"
conting bounds of music, dancing, or the feast; all was silent and gloomy
sons the "modern" girl and boy hanging abové our heads? Astor The first ...news that Mr. One is left to answer the question: Malcher bent and picked it, the Harvey, who is 25, was alive, is there any fundamental difference stable door opened of itself, and the was received by bis sunt, Mrs. Between, the modern girl and boy pilgrims entered in. Malcher placed Tucker, in a letter he wrote from a and the after his disappearance even ha hospital. By this time, a year wardian" relatives believed him dead:
ictorian” and even "Ed. the chrysanthemum in the hand 'eg"
1 Good"" reading tended to receive it--the hand of a f
little new born babe and all went to their knees before the shining presence, bearing as a sceptre the winter flower, white likeness of the isfng, even "disappointing guide star, slik at day
authoress has "Tumbleday Some of the rehärsebé
Incredible Tale by Naomi Royde Smith (Ernest Bena, 9d, net),
welfare of the community as a One case of smallpox and the whole. All modern town-planning cases of meningitis were reported schemes make ample, provision for in the Colony on Beldayerinden what have been described as the Buch great hungs" of the people.. Importance is attached to the pro- vision of "lungs" that corporations, municipalities and even govern ments, in the case of ancient towns The P.&O. 8.a. Corfu, on which tell us without pressure," she went and cities, in which hygiene and the Bishop of Victoria and Mrs beach without having his awim. His on, he wandered away from- tho health had been sacrificed in the Duppuy are to sail for Home to-day memory had gone, and he did not past to the almighty dollar, rupes was delayed by fog on the way here realise his surroundings or pound, have spent large sums of from Shanghai. She arrived inger days he roamed the count money in order to remedy defects, port only this morning and, there-
Collapse in Road, Lowest open air temperature Harvey had suffered from a break- Mrs Tucker said that Mr. yesterday was 6793 Humidity at 10 down a.m. was 95 and at 4 pm 887 From what he has been able to the
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- Tamar, Is alleged to have attémpi" Kówbon is modern deválog et to comalt tuleide in the kitchen
Such mmenso v sumg? of of 218 Henessy Hodd yesterday.”
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