THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1934.
DISTRICT COURT MARTIAL.
Soldier's Theft At Peak Tramway Station.
SENTENCE TO BE PROMULGATED
Private Thomas Henry Constan- tine, of the South Wales Borderers, pleaded not guilty before a district court martial at Murray Barracks on Saturday morning, to charges; of stealing two photographs and two pieces of glass, valued at $1, from a stall at the Upper terminus of the Peak Tramway, and alter- natively with being in possession af the articles.
Prisoner was found guilty, sen- tence to be promulgated later.
The Court comprised Major L. Anderson. (East Lancashire Re- giment) president. Capt. M. R. V. Tucker, (South Wales Borderers) and Lieut. P. Remus, ( K. S. R. A). Capt. H. E. Davies,
(South
Wales Borderers), prosecuted and Lieut. I. G. Mann. (South Wales Borderers) defended.
POLICE RESERVE.
Orders for the Current
Week.
Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G.. Insector General of Police.
Inspection By Hon. Inspector General Of Police
All ranks of the Hong Kong Po- lice Reserve will parade at Police Headquartera on Wednesday, June 20th at 17.30 hours for inspection and presentation of awards, by the Hon. Inspector General of Police.
Dress.
Superintendents: White Uniform, Cap with White Cover, Sam Brown Belts and Sticks, White Shoes or Boots.
Attendants bow low as the Queen Mother of Japan (front), mother of the Emperor, leaves the Yashunki hrine in Tokyo fullowing her annual pligrimage. The shrine is a temple dedicated to the souls of all the Japancee Foldiers and sailors who died in the service of the Mikado.
LITERARY NOTES
Aldous
Huxley Is As
Calm As Ever
New Book Of Travel From Famous Author
PICK OF THE NEW NOVELS
(By HOWARD SPRING)
RUSSIAN ROYALTY'S
DIARIES.
Intimate Picture Of Monarchy Days.
The Dowager Empress Marie of Russia, a sister of Queen Alexandra, left some diaries and they are to be published by Mr. Geoffrey Bles, under the editor- ship of Miss Erica Beale.
They give an intimate picture of the events which led to the decline and fall of the Russian Monarchy.
ORDEAL OF MARK TWAIN.
American Critic's Book.
"Beyond the Mexique Bay" is]William Ellis. Which parts of Mr. Aldous Huxley's new book of the present book are by M. travels (Chatto and Windus, 125. Boutet de Monvel and which by Gd.) The country into which Mr. William Ellis I do not know, he ventured is that in which for Mr. Ellis tells us that the orl- D. H. Lawrence sought and pro-ginal French consisted of about
Mark Twain is the subject of a Chinese, Indian and Flying Squad: fessed to find some sort of as- 40,000 words and that this book
Susuagement, some inner and im-is more than twice that length book which the American critic, White Uniform. Cap with Cover, Bell with Brace, Armlet with perative message to the "blood." This is free translation with a Van Wyck Brooks, wrote
The end of Mr. Huxley's book vengeance.
some time ago and which Dent is now publishing.
Badge. "Pocket Policeman" and
in a brief examination of Law- The difficulty in writing a life note-book to be carried.
Under the title "The Ordeal Emergency Unit Reserve: Khaki rence's invitation to us "to re- of Cervantes is that so little is Tunic, Khaki Shorts, Cap with nounce daylight and fresh air known about him. There are a Khaki Cover, Blue Puttees, Bell and immerse ourselves in the few incontrovertible needles of of Mark Twain," it traces his side with his dazzling material with Brace, Armlet with Badge, grand sea of the living blood."" truth hidden in a stack of legend spiritual development side by "Pocket Policeman" and Note-book On the whole, Mr. Huxley thinks and guesswork.
to be carried.
Chinese Company.
from June 2, 1934.
for, until new sources
are dis-
success.
"EGYPT SINCE. CROMER."
Second Volume Soon.
ап
And the au- even we had better not do it. Civilisa-thorities are not agreed tion, at its present pitch of upon the facts. We are told here, All achievement. gets no Order of for example, whether by Mr. Training Course-Part 11.
Merit from Aldous; but, never-Monvel or Mr. Ellis, that Cer- recruits of the Chinese Company will attend at the Chinese Company theless, such as it is, he thinks vantes accompanied Santa Cruz Headquarters on Tuesday, June 12, we had better stick to it and try in his expedition into Portugal.
to make something of it.
that there he met a lovely lady' at 17.30 hours for instruction,
There are the two states: Hu-and had an illegitimate daughter
The second and concluding Inspection Parade. All ranks of The Chinese Company will parade atman Freedom as Lawrence saw by her.
Another authority has doubted volume of Lord Lloyd's "Egypt Central Police Station for a generalit, and Human Bondage as we
know it. Human Bondage "has whether Cervantes joined the ex-Since Cromer" may be expected inspection by the Officer Command-
many and substantial advan-pedition at all, adding: "In any from Macmillan.
He deals fully with the differ- ing, on Thursday, June 14, at 17.30 tages." and in any case it is, so case, the stories of his residence hours. Dress White Uniform. Cap to speak, the thing we have ir in Portugal and of his lovelences of policy between himself with White Cover, Belt with Brace, revocably decided to buy. "We affairs with a noble Portuguese and the Socialist Government, Armlet with Badge, "Pocket Police must be content to pay, and in lady who bore him a daughter when he retired from the High
Commissionership of Egypt, man" and Note-book to be carried. definitely to go on paying, the irare simple inventions.
The best that can be hoped Indian Company.
reducible price of the goods we Constable R208 Mo have chosen." Strength. hamed Khan has been taken on the
It is pretty clear long before covered, is an excellent back-things is little more than strength of the Indian Company, as this formal examination is made ground with a figure of some ironic backcloth.
across it.! The experiment ended in what of Lawrence's obsessions that probability moving Training Course-Part II. All Mr. Huxley is not going to find Mesers. Monvel and Ellis give us you mght call disaster, but be- recruits of the Indian Company re-his spiritual home beyond the that. Their book is at any rate hiding in Kowloon will attend 4 Mexique Bay. "Frankly, try as 1 highly readable. Chi Woo Street, Kowloon on Wed-may," he writes, "I cannot very "Even Such Is Time." nesday, June 13, at 17.30 hours for much like primitive people," and In "Even Such is Time (Collins, instruction.
one wonders whether he likes 7R. 6d.) Miss Doreen Wallace has Flying Squad.
people at all, primitive or other gone farther away than ever be "A Career For The Gentlemen.” Mr. David Farrer's first novel, Instructional Patrol. The next wise. He is always happier when fore from East Anglia, and of instructional patrol for members of writing about things and ideas this writer I feel that her "A Career for the Gentleman" the Hong Kong Section will take than when writing about the men strength is drawn as surely from (Chatto and Windus, 7a. 6d.), is place on Friday, June 22. Members who make the things and in her native roots as Hardy's concerned with "London's crimin- will fall in at Central Police Sta-whom, to be effective, the ideas strength was drawn from Wes-als and smart young men of un- certain temper." The book is tion 17.30 hours sharp. All must be incarnated. members will attend. Dress- "The little Indian soldiers," he Nevertheless, Miss Wallace, is written with a good deal of sym- White U-form, Cap with White writes in Guatemala City, "ook-Iso good a novelist that even when pathy for these smart young Cover, Bek with Brace, and Trun-jed very smart in their khaki uni-she is not at top form she has men, who seem to me to be more forms," and straightway the most of her contemporaries lick-dangerous than the double-dyed
whom they East Anglia crooks with Emergency Unit Reserve, sight of them leads him into aled to a frazzle. Strength. Constable R451 Frank long disquisition on nationalism, claims her hero, Benedick Lee, ciate.
The value of the book lies in Lee has been taken on the strength its passions, panders and dupes, in the long run. He was born of the Emergency Unit Reserve as ending with the conclusion that in London in poor circumstances. its profound feeling of veracity. from June 9, 1934.
"rulers who wished to do so could drifted into circumstances even All its happenings its smash- C. CHAMPKIN rid the world of this collective poorer, and then, by a trick of and-grab raids, its car stealings, Acting, D.S.P. (R) insanity in a generation." fortune's wheel. found himself its general subjugation of mo- Hong Kong, Monday, June
cheon,
1934.
BIG OPIUM HAUL ON LINER.
11,
Discovery Made After Leaving Hong Kong.
Bex.
vond the disaster you come out on the other side to find the spirit of man taking up like a signifi- cant challenge the trivialities of the day's work.
A8B0-
So, it is all the way through. in "county" society in the Cots-dern transport to crime purposes He is a peripatetic university ex-wolds and an undergraduate at-is the mere stuff of the daily Press; but here it is co-ordinated tension lecturer who leaves no Oxford.
When
ro
stone unturned provided it offers But Suffolk had on Benedick a and systematised, and we see the some feature of geological inter-pull he could not resist, and when brains behind the mechanics.
The story tells how a youth of est. His meditations among the he made up his mind to go and sierras range through archaeolive there and practise as a "vet." decent family, sentenced to ten logy and psychology, music and Marjorie, whom he was to marry, months for manslaughter with a painting, science and religion, wrote: "You're perfectly right car, met in gaol a number of architecture. economics, craftsmanship and You're going back to the land, habitual criminals.
where you really' belong." leased, he fell in with a wealthy I find him in this book, as clae- It seems like a message ad-girl whom he loved, and also with While on the voyage from Hong where, cold. austere, and pas-dressed to Miss Wallace herself. his old gaol-birds. His divided Kong to Singapore last week Cap sionless, profoundly interesting. Once Benny and Marjorie get life half in the society fre- Lain D, Mansfield, master of the the most perfect living example back to Suffolk to make their quented by his sweetheart, half Blue Funnel steamer, Menestheus, of a scientist and man of letters brave experiment in living the in the social war of smash-and- wirelessed the discovery of 900 in amalgam.
book, takes on its author's best grab, crooks and fences-is made tacis of opium secreted behind the "Cervantes And The Magicians." quality, which is always an ex-to have a great authenticity, and, wainscoting in the officers' and "Cervantes and the Mag-pression of man's struggle with apart altogether from its value passengers' smoke-rooms. Over 600 clans," by Roger Boutet de Mon- the implacable forces of nature, as a competent story, one feels tacla were also found in the ship'a vel (Hurst and Blackett, 98. 6d.), a tragedy played out on a stage that the book deserves attention pantry. No arrests were made...... is "rendered into English" by A. where the beauty of natural as a social document.
Imitation
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