WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933.
Self-Consciousness Is Shed
THE CHINA MAIL
PEAK DOG-OWNERS FINED
With Clothes Among Nudists Breaches of Muzzling
Order.
Work, Play In Sunlight Features Daily Routine VACCINATION DOES NOT EXEMPT
At Secluded Camp In Catskills, Writer Finds On Visit To Typical U.S. Group.
To-Day's Short Story.
Cheka Chief
Tempts Me To
Turn Bolshevist
By R H Bruce Lockhart.
That the vaccination of dogsHE sentries who guarded me After jagainst rabies had been proved in
my first week in the California, but had never been givensonment in the Kremlin at Mos reticent about my
Office, came to see me. He was a reliable test in Hong Kong, was!
cow, in September. 1918, were too, hinted that a public trial was own case. He the statement made by Major W. J. decent, sensible fellows on the inevitable."
Meeting at Which I Was Not Present.
TH
1 during my 24 days impri-Kremlin, Karachan, of the Foreign
(The nudist movement in which men, women and children mingle together in work and recreation completely unclothed, has received much scandalized attention from officials in Canton, Hong Kong, “Shanghai, Dairen and Harbin. But in America it is making astonish-·|E. Mackenzie, Colonial. Veterinary ing headway, as in Europe. What manner of people are these nudists Surgeon, in evidence at the Central, whose practices are carrived on in guarded privacy? What of their mo tives? How do they, actually conduct themselves in their gymnasiums and outdoor camps? The answers are contained in a series of three articles, of which this is the first.)
By PAUL HARRISON
He also informed me that Rene
whole. I was the head of the Police Court this morning in the British Mission in Moscow, and case in which Mr. J. T. Prior, of 26, had been thrown into prison on a Marchand, a member of the French The Peak, was summoned for failing, charge of oraising the so-called sheyists with full proofs of an "Lockhart lot" against the Mission, had fernished the Bol- Allied meeting at the American Consulate-General At this meet-
to have a muzzle on his dog.
J
At the previous hearing Mr. Bolshevist Government. New York, July 23. heads pillowed on towels. Their Prior pleaded guilty but said that My fate was yet unknown. The ing the Allied representatives, had A minister sat under a tree, white torsos, contrasted with his dog had been vaccinated against betting among the sentries was that discussed such measures as blowing I would be shot, but they made no Moscow and St. Petersburg from up railway bridges and cutting off reading. At least, he turned out browned arms, and legs, told of rabies and he had not troubled to to be a minister, although he did many hours spent this year on keep a 'muzzle
on the dog. Mr. attempt to jeer at me.
their sources of food supplies. He not wear clerical garb. He wore, conventional bathing suited
During my whole period of had given, so Harachan said, a full in fact. nothing at all but a pair beaches.
Prior said that Mulford anti-rabies of soft slippers and some specta-
captivity 1 struck only one reallest of the names of those who were A woman of perhaps 50, with vaccine had been used. cles. His skin was browned and graying hair but a trim figure, Major Mackenzie, in evidence, nasty one-a sour-faced curmad- present. I laughed.
"It is true," he said. "We shall he looked singularly sinewy for a was resolutely practising a back said that this kind of vaccine had seen, who swore at England, cursed publish the letter in a day or two. middle-aged pulpiteer.
dive from the low dock. On one been proved in California, against me as an assassin, and refused to Fortunately for you," he added with He grinned and said: "New-corner five young men and three the strain of rabies there. "We allow me even to send a message to a grin, "you do not seem to have corner, aren't you sit? I thought women clustered about Miss have never had the opportunity of the Commandant. He was a Hun-been present.". you looked a little startled. Prob- Ethel Jacobs, the swimming in making a reliable test of its efficacy garian.
The story waS ably I'm the first of these so-call-structor. · Most of them
more or less true. were in Hong Kong. The only evidence Not all my sentries were Bol Marchand had thrown in his lot. ed sinful cultists you've ever seen employees of the club and were available points to the fact that it shevista. All, however, were con-with the in the ah desh. Well, you receiving advanced lessons in life is, or rather, leads. one to assume vinced that the revolution had come war he returned to France and join Bolshevista, After the can lay aside your misgivings saving. Men took turns being that it is efficacious. That is as far, to stay.
"rescued" by other men, and the as we can go."
ed the French and qualms along the lake."
Communist Party. The walking exercises I was He renounced his Communism in This was the 600-acre farm of women practised by themselves.
The witness went on to say that allowed to take were a welcome re- 1931. the Out-of-Door Club, one of New An amateur photographer ap-experiments had to be made on lief to the monotony of my exia- York's nudist groups.
peared and snapped a few close vaccinated and unvaccinated dogs teace. They kept me from thinking the war and of the outside world. Karachan, also gave me news of Heavily wooded, flanked by the rolling without protest.
pictures, for which all posed and they must be kept under obser- about myself, and, although at first The Allies were driving back the Catskills, the estate centred
vation, before a definite answer, could not refrain from indirect Germans in the West. Austria and Farmers Invited In. about a 34-acre lake. Over the
could be given.
questions to my guards regarding Bulgaria were on the verge of cot- brow of a hill, in sight of a little forestalled neighbourhood anta-Granville Road, Kowloon, when a soon discouraged further attempts might now win the war.
Miss Gay, incidentally, has A case occurred some time ago in my own fate, the answers I received lapse. He admitted that the Allies, used road, were farm buildingsgonism and prowling sightseeing rabie dog ran into a house, bit two to satisfy my morbid curiosity. which now were being convert ed into dormitories and private] by occasionally inviting the other dogs and then ran into an- Every day during my walk I paid was further stressed by the dis- This was good news indeed. It 'rooms for the guests. On this people of nearby farms to come other house and bit two more. A visit to a little church built in the closure of the real object of Kara- side of the hill, and on the lake, now evince any hesitancy to ap-had been vaccinated, but not the garden round it and a famous ikon, certain my
over for a swim. Few. of them) It was known that the first pair wall of the Kremlin. It had a little chan's visit. He had come to as hidden from the gaze of all but) aviators, were some 50 men and pear in the nude.
second pair. They were kept under called "Our Lady of Unexpected terms on which England would be views regarding the women, entirely nude except court makers were busily carry-was finally learned that they had the attractiveness of the title. I had tion and
Half way up the hill the tennis observation, but nothing resulted. It Joy." Before the war, Inspired by prepared to abandon her interven a few were shielding theirį shoulders from the hot 3 o'clock wall along the lower side. Most previously.
ing stone to build a retaining been vaccinated some 10 months written a short story about it. Now Russia. The Bolshevists were pre- to make peace with it was to be for three weeks the pared to offer an amnesty to all of them wore gloves and shoes; Mr. Wynne-Jones, the Magistrate, shrine of my daily prayers. Look down there," re-nothing else. The porch of the addressing Mr. Prior, said that he
counter-revolutionaries who would sumed the clergyman, "and see if lodge along the lake shore was would have to take the law as he
accept the regime, and a free exit you can find anything shocking lined with easy-chair nudists, found it. While he applauded Mr.
out of Russia to the Czechs and to or unmoral or immoral. Some several of them smoking and Prior for the precaution he had LOCAL ESTATES AND
the Allies.. esthetic ugliness I'll grant: Most chatting, one woman knitting ataken, it did not exempt his dog of these bodies we live in are sweater. Miss Gay, who had from, being unmuzzled. What he pretty sorry things. But here been busier than a mosquito at a had done was for his own personal there is both the incentive and nudist convention, here paused satisfaction and the opportunity to improve them. to tell about the health experi-public.
not that of the Retired Marine Engineer These people are trying in their ment: being conducted at the "Having heard the evidence of Mr. modest way —"
Leaves $31,100. Mackenzie, I shall also take steps to
sun.
14
Out-of.Door Club,
PROBATES
Obviously, if the Bolshevists were ready to discuss peace terms withi the Allies, they were not likely to listen to any proposals of this] nature. On the whole, my hopes
were raised my this visit. Lenin, Karachan informed me, was now able to situp and take nourishment.
remarked the Jane Strachan, spinster, late of 21 was wet and miserable, and en The week from September 14 to Duncairn, 464 Greist Western two days I was unable to have my Road,
Aberdeen, Scotland, who daily walk. I still received my died on May 10, 1932, left local daily
messages and my daily estate sworn at $10,300.
supply of luxuries from Moura. An application by Denis Henry She sent me, too, a fountain-pen and
A fine of $8 was imposed.
Naval Officer Summoned,
It was
WOMAN
"In their what, doctor"
Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, see that my own dog is vaccinated, CHINESE ESTATE OF $47,800 The Daily Message From Mours, "In their modest way." con-health statistician, is taking but at the same time I shall keep tinued the minister firmly, "to periodic physical measurementsļa muzzle on attain more natural beauty. But of 20 women who expect to be Magistrate. You'd better go on down yourself, guests at the camp throughout and swim. Here's Mr. Blank, a the summer. Mr. John Levy, of 'Wall street man who seems to the Columbia University Medical
have lost his shirt and came here Centre staff, will make psycholo Lt. Comdr. L. H. Bluckett-Pugh, for the first time yesterday. [gical studies of nudists' mental H.M.S. Cicala, living at 162 The He'll take you with him." attitudes. Most important, Miss Peak, was also summoned for fail-Blake, the lawful attorney for the several note books, and I amused His Self-Conscious. Gay believes, will be comparative ing to keep a muzzle on his dog at executora of the will, for resealing myself by writing bad verse and by On the way down the steep one group wearing so-called sun-Bluckett-Pugh had sailed this morn
studies of two groups of children, j Mount Kellet Road.
the confirmation of the executors keeping a strictly non-committal path the broker was inclined to suits, the other being completely
stated that Comdr. of the will, has been granted. diary of my prison life, William Pearce, retired marine be communicative.
Maria Spiridonova, the naked. Dr. Josephine Kenyon, ang on gun-firing trials and would engineer, late of No. 11, The Ter-assassin who was kader of the Left "You know," he said earnestly. child specialist of the College of to-morrow leave for North China, race, St Ives, in Cornwall who Social Revolutionaries, whose coun- "I don't quite like this. Not that Physicians and Surgeons, will be not returning until November. died on February 21, 1935, left ter-revolution had failed, was -im- I've seen anything wrong, but in charge of this work,
The Magistrate adjourned the local estate valued at $51,100. prisoned in the same corridor, as; summons and said he would com- An application by Michael Ho-myself. I saw her often. We municate with the Naval Authori-ward Turner, solicitor, the law-never spoke, although we greeted ties,
ful attorney, for resealing the each other solemnly when we passed probate of the will and three on our daily walks,
She looked ill and nervous, with codicils attached. has been grant-
great dark lines under her eyes, ied. ing to have a license for his dog. Jordan Road, Kowloon, who died at dressed, but might have been Ruby May Hopwar, late of a She was clumsily and very careless- said that the license was taken out the Matilda, Hospital on July 31, quite pretty when young,"
was dis-1933, left local estate sworn
$3,600.
I'm so doggoned self-conscious.
I think these people ought to
wear something; just maybe even
a little something. I like the sun
as well as anybody, and I like to ewim in the raw as well as any kid. But hereafter I'll take my sun in solitude."
We reached the lodge on the lake shore. Around the corner, coming from the swimming dock:
(Continued on Page 11.)
SILVER BOWLS RECOVERED,
Found By Police At Causeway Bay.
A License Mistake. Mr. Leo Landau, of 42 Lockhart Road, who was summoned for fail-
seven days before he received the! summons. The summons
Two silver bowls belonging to missed.
at
Probate of the above will has
The eminence of their prisoners evidently caused some amusement to and on their way to work on a Mr. W. L. Walker, of the P.W.D., Mr. Landau was also summoned new tennis court, burat a group which were stolen from his re- for failing to keep a muzzle on his been granted to Mary Agues Hop formerly had stood the statue of our guards. One day my sentry piloted me to the shrine where sof men and women, all nude,
sidence in Mount Parish Road last dog and, on pleading guilty, was war widow. Miss Jan Gay, director of the May, were found hidden behind a fined $8.
Lee Tam Tuck, alias Ah Tamed out to me a sentence roughly Alexander II., and with pride point- camp, halted them for introduc- bed during a raid by the police on Mr. T. A. Mitchell, of 510 The alias Li Tam, merchant or trader, chiselled on the side of the huge tions. Miss X, u well-known house in Causeway Bay, photographer, Miss Y, an artist,
Peak, was fined $16 for not having formerly of Rabaul, in the Territory Chan Kwai, the owner of
¡pedestal. the muzzles on his two dogs at Coombe of New Guinen, and late of 14 and Miss Z, who the day before bed, was charged at the Central Road, and Mr. H. Stehr, of 109 The Fleming Road, who died on August entries, ran
The words, carved by one of our had been graduated from a select Police Court this morning and Peak, was also fined $8 for a similar 14, 1982, left local estate sworn at the Red Army soldiers of the 9th Es follows: "Here. college, nodded pleasantly and pleaded guilty. He said that he offence.
$37,200, without an observable trace of picked the two, bowls up in a
Lettish Rifles had 'the bonour of Probate in the above estate has walking with Lockhart, Spiridonova, embarrassment. Professor A, rubbish heap.
been granted to Tom Greenslade Brasiloft.
4527. The word “honour" ¡Goss, planter.
Probate in the estate of Tsang I reflected with grim morbidness
was in inverted commas. Fai-pang, alla Trang Shing-hing, that this was the only status except alias Trang For-kwal, retired mera tombstone on which my name was chant, late of 8 Temple Street, Shaukely to figure, perdre kiwan East, who died on November On September 21 Karachan came 2,-1882, leaving $47,800, has been to see me again,
tall and athletic, shook hands
He was fined $50,-in default one Mr B a paunchy month's hard labour..
cordially.
manufacturer, asked if there
were any news from the econo- COAL-STORE FIRE
mic conference, Dr. C. a white-
bearded scientist, nearly 70 and
AT WANGHAN
nut-brown from three months in
the Bahamas, bowed from an en- Brigade Quickly Quells viably slim waistline.
Pose For Photos.
Outbreak.
BORROWING CAR WITHOUT LEAVE.
University Car-Washer Fined $25
NO DRIVER'S LICENSE, granted to Taang Li chat He brought me copies of the Chiu Kwok-king, allss Jeu Kwok Call Bolshevist newssheet, Chan Ka, & car-washer at the king, alias Chiu Sum, late of 810 printed In English, which was to be Hong Kong University Garage, Tainan Street, Shamabuigo, who distributed by airplanes among the Several people were out on the A small fire broke out in a coal- was charged at the Central Magis- died on June 30, 1933, left local English troops on the Archangel lake in three rowboats, and a godown at 62 Wanchai Road attracy this morning with driving estate sworn at $28,600, salling canoe. Some 20 persons 11-30 last night-te
and Murmansk!front. It contained car belonging to Mr. Chan Fook, Probate in the above estate has a Turid account of the so-called Shi, married Allied Plot My name gured! largely in it, and to by other crimes was now added the charge of having concocted asfalse treaty bet Germany and Russia as a means of inducing the Allled troops to fig
sinst the Bolabevista:
Continued on Page 20).
WEATHER FORECAST:
were on the swimming dock. The Fire Brigade WORD Im stedent at the University, with- been granted to La Three little children of about 4 mediately sent for and the blaze out permission, and with driving to 6 splashed happily. In a shal was extinguished before any seri- without a license plat low, sunken crib Two middle ons damage was dones - den He pleaded guilty and was fired aged men and their wives sprawl It is believed that the fire was $20, in default three weeks.) ed in a circle and argued the caused through a cigarette and labour on the Arst count and kid- previous, evening's bridge. game being thrown among the soul- in default 10 days hard labour Two youngt-mén dozed, with nacka/1.
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