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SMALLPOX AT HOME. SERIOUS WARNING BY MINISTER
'OF HEALTH.
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"THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 30th, 1993.
U.S. POLICY DEBATED BY HOUSE OF LORDS.
ship.
LONDON, June 28th. The House of Lords is debating the American seizure of liquor on British
Marquess Curzon devlared that there is In the House of Commons, the Minister utely no chance of our agreeing to the United States proposal of a twelve mile limit as" regards liquor only, as a consideration for which the United States
LONDON, June 29th,
FRENCH AIR FORCE. PROVISION "AGAINST GERMANY.
Paris, June 28th.
The Chamber has voted the Air Service: a crait of 912 million frames, after a lively discussion in which the Socialist,
FAR EASTERN CABLE A MANUFACTURER OF JOKES.
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SUGGESTED SINGAPOEE HAVAL BASE
· OUR IGNORANT YOUTH- It is the illusion of every age to believe itself more enlightened than its prefecos son. As the eighteenth century arided the burlarous ignorance of the Ellen. bathans, zo we smile at the shallowness and narrowness of Victorian thought. Het we had allowed ourselves to believe that the pride of our own generation was not alto- gether unjustified. The discoverion of
M. Mistral, declared the hgure had been | SCHEME CRITICISED BY AUSTRALIAN | manufacturing laugh is onough to make science in the last half-century have been
LABOUR LEADER.
of
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SOME CONFESSIONS, The writing of a popular farce is the sub ject dealt with by a correspondent in the Pall Hell Gazette. He writes
Si inishing "Nig
Nightie Night" I have disced why writers of humour have a reputation for being the most serious people in the world. The and and sober business of raised at the last monest from thirty-
anyone serious: the realisation of this is great and so various that people. That takes all the fun out of trying to be very stadious habit bare six million, and asked whether it was in
MELBOURNE, June 29th.
funny laugh ofband under the ably den response to Mr. "Baldwin's statement and
ing of the processer of Nature To produce a
deeper and more accurate than of Health (Earl of Onslow) issued a
M. Angwin, ex-Minister of Works for stimulus of good company is easy; it is leaders of investigation could attain in the meant fresh competition in armaments., serious warning regarding the danger
being done The War Minister. M. Maginet scanted Western Australia and now Deputy anything about it lut to sit down in front of our grandfathers. The accumulation from an epidemic of squall-pox, which would}
per riter and in cold blood tranamit example, in the history of the remote be likely to inflict serious injury
offers to allow the entry of British Bquer M. Mistral's enquiry if France were on the Leader of the Western Australian Labour to paper something that you feel will has been so rapid during the last two gensen- on the commerce of the country. Last year 073
eve of war with. Eng'and, and declared Party, has returned from Singapore. He price a mug six months or a year hence, lions that those who merely read as they another story, for a typewriter is run are on a host of important matters The debate was initiated by: Lord that it was not a question of Britain but declares that the site is unsuitable for apar cases were notified, while this year 035
a sorry exchange for good company and the better informed than the scholars of earlier Birkenhead in what Marques Curzon Germany. They would be mad to run naval base unless the chain of hases her asslick of the keys anything but times. Now, to shatter our self-satisfaction.
laugh-inspiring Then, too much depends comes the indictment that "a
"a prossing
einvunspection.
umler stal.
of a
in
past-
ab
cases had bea already reported, thoug" luter described sa language of extrem any risk from Germany, who was continued to Westeru and Eastern Aus on one's mood. What seems irresitibly social problem is the growth of ignora by
there were no fatalition,
The Minister deplored the fact that only 8 por eps of British children were vaccinated, and he strongly urged versal vaccination for persons of all ages, us a aur protection against the disease. He regretted that the statistics showed an increase in the number of enneer ensck, but thought that this could be attributed. ̈to better diagnoses.
"LOSS OF THE "TREVESSA.”
SECOND BOAT. ARRIVES AT MAURITIUS.
LONDON, June 28th. An Eastern Telegraph Co. message from Rodriguez stated that the Trevina's second boat, containing sixteen survivors, bas arrived at Mauritius.
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BRITISH LABOUR. CONFERENCÉ CONDEMNS INCREASE
OF AIR FORCE.
LONDON, June 25th.
with sen
Lord Birkenhead. declared that the Volstend Act never intended to create the present situation, which conflicted Agr. He suggested that British diplomacy ask the United States to infuse some mitigation which will leave the United States policy nuimpaired and simultaneously relieve British shipping of à serious and quiecessary burden.
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centrating all her efforts on the creation of an air föree.
PARIS, June 8th, The Senate his voted the air service credit, sinilarly to tho Chamber.
tralia.
&
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next:
SORER JUDGMENT.
das
The
good
present
charge is Burnet, who, like Romanes lecture to the consideration of t has chosen to devote his ignorance in our Commonwealth He admits the great augmentation of know- ledge
in recent times, but protests that this has its disadvantages
The more there is to know, he argues, the less of it can we know. It is certainly true
that the.. ideal of innatery of all human learning hus
been phenlete. Jong
He must all be cialists and specialists whose continually more limitert as the awont to be known about thenr Элстеля, Professor Burnet Otherwise the greatest farcy in the specialism has its dangers, anti, pushed to protests that a logical conclusion, would land us in a in writing farce one cannot depenti. To ale know." And thing
до спо ociety where
knew anyone which arise from one specialista contempt not merely satirical. The incoveniences for the conclusions of another. the
mildly
funny one day seems lamentably sad the the
He says the site will be dominated by It is such a temptation to play Penelope In writing farce this is a real obstacle.
islands owned by foreign Powers, which and destroy at night all one has accomplish
ed during the day. would Inttle up the fleet at Singapore, but he considers Singapore would be a site suitable for an aircraft dépôt, he cause it would form a link between the Shanghai and Calcutta depôts. · PROJECT DEFENDED BY EARL BEATTY ‚AND VISCOUNT" CURZON,
LONDON, Jun 28th. Lirut.-Col. Rt. Hon. C. M. S. Amery charges of dumping in the Harbour presided over a meeting of sixty members ail with unlawfully approaching within of the House of Commons, held last night, was lying alongside her wharf at Kowloon.
Sub-Inspector Bond said that about explained why-Singapore had been chosen famous: A
WATCHMEN COMMENDED.
SMART WORK IN ARRESTING DUMPERS.
This is one of the great advantages of collaboration; two persons so seldom agree upon
destroying the same line. But a funny situation, while side splitting at the be- ginning, often cesses to be funny, amusing even, when one has lived and subjects fered and died with it for 24 hours. This sober judgment must step then, is in world might never got beyond the first scene For wholly on one's sense of humour. oase of and the better the judg caent, the better the humour must be backed up by judgment; farce. As my grandmother ence said to 30 feet of the evident Grant as the when Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty sort of biscuits for which she was justly persuading thing their results
mo in telling me how
how to make a certain ficulties of
Lo Sing and Lo Yung appeapod at the Marine Magistracy, yesterday morning on
a,m.
that criticism is
and
to co-operate often trouble But
to special- ismi For Professor Barnet would not have
and a something else." "But
just on the 29th inst the two as a defensive base. He emphasised the a bit of of this, a dash of that, our peace is the alternative to
how much of
1. asked: 1 can't defendants were brought to the Water absolute need for Singapore to cover the follow directions like that "That's whore a man aim at a superficial general know chinese watchmen, who stated that the replying to a question, insisted that no And this is what I have discovered ab Police Station by an Indian and a Eastern portion of the Empire, and, when have to use your judgment, she ledge to become, as Macaulay once said E
replied. "And if you haven't any defendants had dumped some bags into
mant, you'd better not try to make thous Brougham, a semi-Solomon, haif knowing everything from the cedar to the hyssop,” The Professor is not an optimist. He the harbour. Two mes had jumped over other such suitable has existed. He add-faces. You may have all the ingredien finds that the enormous growth of potenti
including even a plot, but you are liable al knowledge has been accomp board from the sampans and swam away, that Singapore would be a purely to have a terrible timo patting them to corresponding growth of actual ignorance. panied Esy 10 These sampana, said witness-had no right defrasive, offensivo base. Earl gether if you haven't acquired a good farce The young men of the present day, he wills
jarigolent.
allow, are healthier in body and mind and to be in the close vicinity of the ship at Beatty's address, so it is stated, has
more intelligent than those of his own but they are alsolately and generation, created 'a very good impression,
His relatively more ignorant, professorial experience is that in Scotland the standard.
aching
and examination has been pro
for the last thirty yesis
that time.
Marques Curzon emphasised the in- portance of the question, which should be solved not so much by senideentions of Tawas acties and diplomacy,
Marques Curion denied that the Government had treated the matter in silener, On the contrary, we had pointed | 1.50 unt to America" that for any state to prajsë, the operation of a strictly domestic magicipal law on to foreign ves on the high seas, which was the practical «ft of the American ruling, would be unprecedented and create an impossible position in international voyages if the The British Labour Conference adopted | provedenk were made genera'. He ex- a resolution condemning the increase of pressed the opinion that the real motive the British Air Force in competition of the "United States Government in with France as a preface to a new era, allowing the matter to come to a head of war," and demanding that Great at the present time was probably a dire Britain should convoke an International ao. chick cuntraband carried on From British territory in the West Indies and Conference to abolish air armaments.
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als by British vessels outside territorial The Conference passed a resolution waters ·He pointed out that Britain welcoming amalgamation with the Second refused to entertain the twelve-mile tionals and the Vienna Interimit proposal in June last year and refussi a fortnight ago. natale; characterising the Buhr decupa- repeated the tion by an act of aggression and war, and He concluded that the Government was demanding negotiations or arbitration; using all channels of diplomacy to find an advising a world conference to revise exit from a disagreeable situation which Peace Treaties; and urging the recogni- ought not to be allowed to continue.
GERMANY'S EXCHANGE
tion of Russia,
MEASURES.
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, in moving the risolution,"suid that the war spirit would NULLIFIED BY ALLIED DECREE. revive unless Great Britain had the Goy- erament which would devise a policy, to utifle armaments.
FLIGHT ROUND FRANCE, PARIS, June 28th Lieut. Destourdeaux flew round France, a distance of 2×19 kilometres, in 24 hours and 30 minutes, winning the Michilin
Cup,
FRANCE AND RUSSIA. FRENCH TRADE" MISSION TO MOSCOW.
BERLIN, June 28th.
not
The Indian watchman (Faker Mahomed)
Replying to the attack made by Admiral on the wharf, gave evidence of the arrest. He was on duty at half-past three on the Sir Percy Scott on the Singapore project, wharf, which the President Grant was on the ground that the battleship had lying alongside, when he saw the become obsolete, Viscount Curzon (Member defendants in a sampan about four or for Battersea) in a letter to the Daily five yards from the President Grant's Hall, replies seriatim to Sir Percy stern. There was a big white steam Scott's arguments, pointing out incid. launch, with a yellow funnel," waiting to
DIRECT DITE,
Smart: except the exception.
take them in tow, lying some forty yards entally that the battleships aggregating fueveral stages of rewriting payable in the professions and in many..
Red
A laugh is a first impression. An au- dience can't analyse what has been said, decide it is funny and then laugh about it Whatever the point is, it must hit them of right between the eyes.
They must laugh first and think after- overy wards, and if in thinking of it afterwards It oot only in St. Andrews that this they laugh again, so much the better for the
Dr. work you have done. But first of all the decline is observed. An Oxford tutor, andiance life of farce. The difficulty is to retain your compas-hensive scale, the average public must laugh, for laughter is the by the results seen at Oxford en a
Grandy, has lately complained that, judged
Jarge Erst
impression.
as far as languages are cun You hit on what seems an excruciatingly school cerned
little arning situation, and you think it is funny his
or nothing, and that through
will render ignorance Then
kim Lunemploya comus day, when you say to
of business." The wonder if this is so fanny after all. This is bonistas e serenity of these donus- by allowing the would endo all the work you have done some skill in natural science: But the old is danger signal, the point where you hapless youths in Scotland and at Oxford were it not for the judgment that tells literary and linguistic ability of the andar. you the first impression was good; stick to shat
kmluate was not unless our modesty der But having written a farce, the worst is cives us, so ligh: a lower standard. get te come; if you are lucky it is to be pro- car on maastove, been the rearend
curriculum wa droed, and then the first night, I think
overthrown reformers there a bo ao, keener torture in the world told us that the new subjects and the new methods would provide a far superior meros than to have written something you feel to of education. We should not condemn them be truly funny until that psychological because their suceres has not yet been per ing
performance
away. The Wharf Company's patel 100,000 to sunk by submarines in the launch was lying at the launch wharf. War, did not include a single unit of the In answer to the watchman's whistle, the main Beet, although the main fleet, was master proceeded to defendants sampan, often at sea during the War. whereupon the defendants, kurking toge
Viscount Curzon emphasises that Singa- ther, dragged two large heavy bags and dumped them overboard: The watchman port would be an ident situation for con- searched the sampan and found nothing trolling the defence of the Eastern portion Ho afrested the two defendants and took of the Empire, and does not believe that them to the Water Police Station.\
The Chinese watchman, Cheong Kan any one of the peoples of the Empire moment when the curtain rises on the open!fect, but they may be called upon to recon- gave corroborative, exidence; a
would be content to exist on sufferance.
with the same degree speet results of practice. If it Ts found true, as Sub-Inspector Bond produced & stris Ho feels sure they would desire to speak curtain pirits run in exact opposition to the sider their theories in the light of the You wonder why you did it; you wish you the evidence from Scotland and Oxford ment showing that Lo Sing had jump- with equal weight among the nations of hadn't. You wonder how long the curtain are more ignorant than of did, another authorities' exchange
old, re- ed" his bail on a charge of larceny of the world when matters concerning the will stay up; how long the audience' form is needed in the school.---Daily coal, at the Magistracy, on November Far East were discussed, and this can If they had know of this form of spony 14th, 1917..
only be when the defence of the Eastern at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, they would have used it as their pet performance. portion of the Empire has been safe.
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JAPAN AND RUSSIA.
• Tokyo, June 28th.
stand it.
Then when you have stood the stowin just as long as you can, the audience kindly laughs. You catch your breath and come back, As the play progresses, they laugh some more, and you realise they laughed at
Telegraph.
INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE.
EXPERIMENTS WITH ULTRA-
"VIOLET" LIGHT.
it in the first place. So far your judgment [By "THE TIMES" MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT.] has held good.
When the curtain goes down you feel as if |,
There has assuredly never been a time
The Russo-Japanese conversations will you lod fired thousand years, and you in human history when men and women
The German measures have been rullified by a decree Ly the Inter-Allied High Commission, that the German decree of June 22nd
The Marine Magistrate (Com. CW. does not apply to the occupied territories, Beckwith R.N.) in passing sentence of
six weeks' imprisonment on Lo Yung and guarded. and that no prosecution will be allowed.
two months' hard labour on La Sing, TENNIS AT WIMBLEDON.
congratulated the two watchman on their LONDON, June 29th. vigilance. They had done good work in At Wimbledon the weather was glorious detecting these cases. He commended their action and he hoped that the matter for to-day's matches. Their Majesties would come to the notice of the Wharf continue daily for two hours only. It is were present,
and Clown Company and than they understood that the Nikolaievsk question Play on the centre court opened with would be rewarded.
will be taken u up tomorrow. the great fourth round battle in which the South African, Norton, defeated the British Davis Cup player, Wheatley, 148, 9-6, 6-1, 6-2, but Richts in defcating Brugnan by 6-4, 6-1, 6-2, produced the finest tennis yet seen, Richards' consistent 31. Duverger promised on his return to brilliance makes him France to initiate a vigorous campaign of champiod. reengnition of the Soviets.
Moscow, June 28th. The unofficial French trade mission, headed by M. Duverger, has departed.
It is understood that nothing definite t resulted from the discussions as re- Hards
concoasions,
FRANCE'S PARAMOUNT
CONDITION.
PARIS, June 28th...
&
· IMPERIAL WIRELESS.
In the House of Commons on May 15th," Sir H. Brittain asked what was the attitude of the several Dominions and India to the provision of wireless tele potential graphic communications with this country. Sir W ̧... Joynach-Hicks (Postmaster- General) saki that the Union Government "had" "entered into a contract with the
[AY COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN."]
TRAVEL IN CHINA.
MR.
FOR SAFETY
know that what you - have done must now
stal units merits. Your part in it is over. The rest is on the knees of the girl,
FRENCH AND ENGLISH.
A DIFFERENCE OF COMMERCIAL OUSTOM.
Is an articla on "The French and the
PUTNAM WEALE'S FORMULA English" in the new Edinburgh Review. Mr. Coudurier de Chasseigne calls atten- tion to difference of custom which, he says, unless clearly understood, is fruitful of misunderstandings in commercial-deal
All over France, but especially in the
PIXING, June 28th. Mr. Putoam Weale, speaking at the ings.
wore not conscious of the great effect of the state of the weather on their feelings and temperaments. Strangely enough, however, it has proved a difficult task to relate such sensations to actual, measur able, or demonstrable weather conditions.
For this reason very grout interest: attaches to
a series of experiments des cribed in the Annual Report of the Lister Institute, which has just been published. Some time ago in Vienna, while working on the influence of light on rickets with Dr. Chick, Mim Margaret Hume made the observation that ten minutes' daily ex- Posure to ultra-violet light enabled rats to Krow normally for some two months when
||· Johnson beat the Bouth African, Marconi Company for the erection of a tiffin of the Anglo-American Association, central and southern departments, the called Vitamin A
deprived of fatty foods, of the so- Sponce, 6-0, 6-1, 6-4. Woonam beat high-power station in South Africa. As said that the immediate concern, owing to only thing which counts, legally speak. Miss Hume subsequently made what is Hillyard 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Lacoste beat regards a corresponding station in Great the Linchang outrage, was to find sing is the written and signed contract described as the rather astounding Davson 6-2, 6-2, 6-0. Berotrs boat Crew-Britain, while urging the early provision
Verbid undertakings are not regarded as discovery that it is not necessary that the loy 2-0, 0-2, 3-6, 7-5, 6-0. All were fourth of such a station, they observed that the formula to make travel safe. It was binding. I fomember my surprise whon rays of the ultra-violet light should fall round victories.
question whether it should be provided by suggested that railway police, with a man belonging to a noble family, who directly on the rats. If empty Jars were Count Degomar and the Britishers the Government station or by private en foreign offoors, was the solation. Apply was also a perfectly honest fellow, told irradiated and the rats Introduced to Godfree, fordon Lowe and Greig wonents Australia the Commonwealth ing the Portsmouth Treaty principles had made a profitable deal in the sale of beneficial effect upon growth was secured,
terprise was one for his Majesty's Govern
me once at Angers that a mutual friend them immediately afterwards the same third round matches, et
Government had become the owners of a Chinese railways, a total of 61,000 police his wine. Of course, he added, he had In other words, the air in the jars doriv-. majority of the shares in Amalgamated would be required, costing $12,000,000 a promised me the day before that he would ed from the rage some quality which it Wireless (Australasia) Ltd., and arrange ments bail been made for the erection year, but would such a force be respon- me have the whole production of his gare out later on to the rats, enabling through the medium of that...
vineyards at a certain figure. "Afterwards them to remain healthy and to grow. st company of sible for law and order1 Suppose it was he got this offer, which was much better, This observation obviously required care station in Australia for communication attacked, how many nationalities would and he was quite right to take it as ful confirmation, and new experimenta with Great Britain. The Commonwealth
were devised to test its accuracy in the Government had recently telegraphed for be involved? He believed that the true nothing was signed between
To an English trader, whose word is most thorough manner. They have been Particulars of the proposed new Govern- solution was to place the railway zones on his bond; this.
promise is mont in special adeninistrative throw hrouble. But the completed and show that the fiscovery in Canadian Government had issued licences
In the course of the Budget debate in the Chumber, Premier Poincare, replying to the Communist M. Berthon, declared that the Government's paramount cords tion of a resumption of the relations with Hussin was that the latter Government re obgaise the debts contracted by its pre
SOVIET TRADE DELEGATION.
LONDON, June 28th. Bouter' Agency understands that M. Krasin, who has gone to Moscow, is nut Jikely to return to Lordoa na head of the Russian Trade. Delegation. S
Malle, Louglen by beating Mrs. Covell 6-0, 6-3 and Mrs. Alallory by beating odgington 6-4, 6-0 entered the fourth round, Hunter and Richards, in the first found bent Majors Evans and Bernard 6-2, 6-3, 7-5.
COUNTY CRICKET
LONDON, June 28th.
Notts beat Kent at Nottingham by an to the Marconi Company of Canada for Tng them open to foreign ownership of the north of Franceerbal No, interpretation is forth-
and among the peasants fer this power on the air through, which in other regions
they shine. The report states considered as sacred as it is in
coming at present. It is being sought after, for it may be surmised that herein may lie the secret of those subtle changes in climate to which mankind and certain individuals in particular are.susceptible." por deale, with the effect on its milk of Another interesting feature of the re- keping a voy in darkness. This work lug an important bearing on the dairy in- dustry, for dark byres are by no means
KRASSIN RETURNS TO MOSCOW. innings and 154 runs. The Notte batsmen the establishment of high-power stations land.
Carr and Payton made 165 and 154 at Montreal and Vancouver, but so far
PEKING PARLIAMENT.
once it is scaled by a grasp of the hand respectively. Matthews took five wickets as he was awere they had expressed no
hence the well-known expression topez às for 42 runs, whilst Richmond in the views as to the ownership of a corres
PEKING, June 25th.
province in France has its own second innings captured five for 40 ponding station in Great Britain. The of the New Zealand Government
In view of the conflicting reports issued immemorial customs, commercial as well Cambridge University beat Sussex at had not yet been settled, and no cloision for propagandist purposes, careful on 8 sis). In Anjou it is sufficient to re Brighton by eight wickets,
Yorkshire beat Northamptonshire at ment in regard to the provision of a high number of members of Parliamont, In when these local peculiarities are rea yet been taken by the Indian Govera. quiries made olie the fact that the ed binding until it is written and signed Bradford hy an innings and 355 runs. power station in India. He had no Peking is 573, and in Tiantain 183,
lisod and guarded against, there is no For Yorkshire Oldroyd scored na, whilst information that the erection of a high. The aumber in Peking is thus nearly reason why trade relations should not run Macau'ar in the second innings took six power station so Fondicherry had been 100 short of that required to form a smoothly between two races who under. wickets for 17 runK.
quorum for the election of a President. stand oach other's method
A. Joffer is mentioned as his successor, bat it is thought that his negotiations with Count Kawakami at Tokyo will not permit of his being available for
some time,
Fad
commencell
Uncommon, 1