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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19th, 1928.
A HEALTHIER
NATION..
BRITAIN'S RECORD SINCE
1838.
BETTER AND LONGER LIVES.
RULES FOR DIET.
POLICE WORK IN SHANGHAI.
+ K
EX-INSPECTOR BURNSIDE'S
TRIBUTE
WAYS OF KIDNAPPER'S DESCRIBED.
"THE GAY RETREAT."
I
WAT
who provided the comic relief in
A WAR COMEDY.
-EVE ON THE SCREEN.
[BY OUR NEM CRITIC,]
"The Gay Retreat " is comedy not dissimilar to "We're Mr. John Burnside, an ex-super- intendent of the Shanghai Muni in the Army" and the others of the There has been an amazing transsipal Police, who has retired alteram sequence despite the fact that taken by the leading roles are formation in the health of the 27 years' sorvice in the East, has
Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara British people since 1839, according recently returned home to Man to Sir George Newman, chief medichester. He went out to China as
What Price Glory." The fact is cal officer of the Ministry of Health | Soung man of about 18. For many that war pictures have been turned and the Board of Education. years, and antil shortly before his out like any other form of mass pro He lectured on March glat at the retirement, Mr. Burnside acted, with duction, there is the serious heroic British Medical Association House, { intermissions, as director of criminal type, the propagandă picture, and jo Tavistock-square, од "The intelligenco, in Shanghai, and he the burlesque comedy. War, in the Foundations of National Health" played a part in the introduction opinion of most of those who took "Though the population has there of modern criminological an active part is the last big one, more than doubled," said Sir methods and their adaptation to the is a very boring form of occupation, George," the general death-rate for ¦ delection of Chinese crime.
and though it undoubtedly had its England and Wales has been halved
Mr. Burnside garo to a Man humours as well as its horrors and sincs 1833; the child mortality cheater Guardian representative an heroisms, the stock war comedy has under five for London is now about interesting account of the pre- not the right atmosphere. one-third of what it was; the num-
dominant crimes which prevail and McNamara have been raised to among the natire population, pria the rank of stars to feed the demand for burlesque war pictures; they have been put inta khaki and given
Cohen
ber of deaths under fifty years of age is now 38 per cent., ás com- pared with 7 per cent. in 1858;cipal among which is that known and the expectation of life at birth a living cheques," or, in other has been extended by as much as words, armed kidnapping. He des French eataminet a village and a railway as a background, but if they swelve years for boys and fourteen cribed how a wealthy Oriental, were in overalls, armed with planks banker or merchant, would, on and whitewash they would be in years for girla
emerging from his house or place their proper environment, making a of business and stepping into his comic which pretended to be no motorcar, ho instantly followed more.
"In other words, the premature death of little children has been enormously reduced, the infectious sickness of adults has been more shaa halved, and life has been pre- longed.
Problem Of Hesitä,
"The fundamental problem of health in the wise and scientific nurture of the body. Now, can we say in plain and categorical terms in what such nurture consistki Here is your body with its nature, its heredity, its variation, its in- born instincts, impulses, and or- ganic functions, the instrument of emotion, intellect, and will-a living organism of long biological ancestry. I think we can, but only in general terms, perhaps, indeed, one term. Nutrition in the answer,
"The elements of patrition for
the body are six in number. Food, fresh air and sunlight, exercise of the body, warmth, cleanliness, and
resto
"Let us consider for a moment the most important of these six food. It is of vital importance to eat the food which will build, re pair, warm, and energise the body. Ignorance of a sensible dietary is the direct cause of much preven tible disease, and more people suffer from eating too much than little.
too
There must be
a Silver Lining
Lining
Here you have the always welcome combination of a for-trot and a walks on the same record. Snappy vocal · refrains tell you what they're all about. The musle itself has that smoothness, spiced with tricky rhythms, that has made these two danes organizations become national favorites. There are four other very inter- esting records on this week's release. Come in and hear them all-soon!
There Must Be a Silver Lining (That's Shining For Me)
Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain WAXING'S PENNSYLVANIAWI My Stormy Weather Pal-Waltz With Vocal Refrain
JOHNNY JOHNSON AND HIS STATLIS PENNSYLVANIAME
No. 21227, 10-inch Ramona----Walte With Worel Refrain Lonely Melody--Fox Trat
PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 21214, 10-inch
Smile Fax Trot With Vocal Chorus
Away Down South In Heaven
Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain
PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
THE VIRGIN LAKE
No. 21228, 10-Inch Black and Blue Blues With Ukulele and Piano Lickens With Plans
No. 21226, 10-ach
Bungalow of Dreama From Midnight Till Dawn
No. 21250, 10-lock
THE DUNCAN Sumtus
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into the car by a number of Chinese But audiences have burlesque and gunmen, who would intimidate the every tumble and grimace was chauffeur as well. One of the gang greeted with peals of laughter at would then drive the car, usually the Queen's 'yesterday, "The Gay down side-streets to avoid a trafic Retreat" is not just another war block, to some unknown destination. picture, it is just another longer The friends of the kidnapped man, comic, and a good one which tankes or "living cheque," would then be an appeal to the bad little boy asked by anonymous letter for a dormant in even the most respect- sum of money which might range uble of adults, Cohen and Me from as much as £5,000 to £25,000. Namara are amusing because ther! The police, said Mr. Burnside, got successfully score off authority time virtually no assistance from the after time, and because they endure family, or even from the ransomed the most ludicrous misfortunes with man himself on his release, which equanimity. would aid" them in bringing the bandits to justice. Fearful of what might happen, they preferred to pay and secure their friend's release
DREAM FULFILLED. and to say nothing afterwards. Such outrages as these, happened as fre
The monks at Buckfast Abbeş quently as once a fortnight. Pay ment of the ransom was secured
have just celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day when one of by the nomination (by anonymous letter) of a member of the family,
"A Man's Past," a drama played their brotherhood detersined to who would be instructed to proceed against the colourful background of fulfil a dream and erect a new build- to a certain place with a bag of Algiers and the desert comes to the ing on the site of the old one that notes, deposit it on the ground, and World Theatre to-day until Satur-stood there before the dissolution of
Eve On The Gazette. The Paths gazette part of which showed mannequins displaying all the newest fashions was particularly interesting.
Besides the dresses
there were several lovely scenes in colour of English countryside and of interesting buildings.
At The World.
The action starts in prison, where
FIVE BRITISH MONKS SAVE £100,000.
ROMANCE OF BUCKFAST ABBEY.
the monasteries.
Like a toneless, nagging bell that. one noted physician is serving a rings incessantly and has no music long term for having put to death in its note, the contact of the trawel patient suffering terrible agony. against stone strikes hard and de- The convict escapes from the prison, finitely through the soft crystal sir and by posing as the brother of the of South Devon. Tangtang woman he afores again becomes tang it goes, and tang famous and wealthy. Some time
tang.
tang. Symbol: Of Faith, later, he is recognised by the assist-
immediately retire. The ransomed day. mau" would be released, unhurt, "It is common knowledge that within half an hour. Or it might man's diet, should be mixed be that the bearer of the ransom and varied; should be sound in
would be given an assignment with quality and sufficient in quantity; consumed...at re-a member of the gang, but in Chi gular intervals; and appetising nese territory outside the Inter- and digestible. It should contain national Settlement, in which ter- some proteins such as occur in meat, fish, milk, bread, cheese,titorý the police have no authority. eggs, peas, beans, lentils; some fats. Failure to pay the ransom meant 38 in cream, butter, suet lard, the murder of the hostage in dripping, olive oil, some carbohy drate, as in sugar, bread, potatoes, specified time! rice, and starchy foods.
Mineral Balts,
ارا
Police And Gunmen. In spite of the fearfulness of the "The body also needs mineral victim to avail thems ren, of the salts contained in milk, cheese,
20 HOURS OF THIRD DEGREE.
CONFESSION WEUNG FROM MURDERER.
QUESTIONED ALL NIGHT.
PARIS, March 16th. Third-degree police methods have resulted in the extraction of a cón- fection from the murderer of G- ton Trupheme, the Paris jewel broker whose body was found bura
ed" almost beyond recognition on the roadside between Lagny, and Melun,
After more than 20 hours of the moat nerve-wracking examination
by police officia's in & ting room at police headquarters a jeweller named Mestorine, who owned a large shop in Paris employing 15 assistants, broke down and, sot- bing, told his ruthless interrogators
Locked In.
ant governor of the prison, but he It has made this mechanical eventually secures & pardon and sound for twenty-one years, and for how he killed Trupheme.
time longer experts say some wins the heart of the girl who has about four years-it, will continue, stood by itin
until the five manks of the Benedic
Mestorino was locked in a room
At The Star,
tine Order who are rebuilding Buck with MM. Gabrielle and Guillaume, Irene Rich and Willard Louis "aret Abbey, in the "Devonshire two of the heads of the French the leading players in the new pleted their long and arduous taak.
valley near Ashburton, have com- Scotland Yard, early yesterday
SEKS. green vegetables, and fruit, power of the law, arrest had been the last two furnishing a consider-rade, but in such case the only picture."The Honeymoon Express" that is reminiscent of the manner morning. With brief intervals to able bulk of fibrous material valu- course open to the Settlement Pro- which comes to the Star Theatre that masone worked in medieval able in stimulating alimentary visional Court was to hand the cul
various foods,
shopkeeper while the other emptied
Europé.
snatch hasty meal he was subjecte
Mestorino was allowed a respite
to the closest inquisition. movement. Last, there are certain prit over to the Chinese Court for to-day until Saturday. The story
Alternately his two questionera substances essential for growth and
The day is a wonderful advertise- nutrition as vitamina present in execution or return him to the Pro- deals with the discontented parents ment for the arrival of the newly took him over the evidence he had extremely minute quantity in committed to imprisonment for life.
visional Court where he could be of three New York young people born spring. There are sights all given previously, and time after Armed robbery in the Settlement and with the youngsters themselves the clarity of the blue sky with points, called him a liar, accused around that are worth looking at time they raised contradictory Finally, there are some food was also rife. The robbers would and their various love affairs. A opaque clouds scudding across it: of the murder and cross- rules which it is expedient to enter a shop and one hold up the sudden rebellion by the neglected the hawthorn that is freshly emerald examined him until, broken with adopt:
(a) Strict and
persistent the till. In such cases, said Mr. mother brings about a dramatic and in its early shoots; and the pale fatigue and feeling himself corner. moderation in diet tends to Burnside, the shonkeepers did not dmusing climax. longevity, and excess tends to hesitate to call in the police; in fact, ently mortality.
most of them kept police whistles (b) Nature has provided that with which to summon the nearest food should be masticated, should | policeman. With the police on their reach the stomach slowly, and net tracks these criminals were very too frequently.
dangerous and had the Chicago gun- (c) The number of meals taken men beaten in their boldness 350 daily is a matter of individual readiness to shoot. As many as 150 practice and custom, but for per- a month of these hold-ups took Bons more than forty years of age | place in the whole of the Settlement they are usually too frequent, as between Chinese and Chinese.
(d) No food should be taken As far as crime of all types in the between such regular meals, be Settlement was concerord, however, cause eating promiscuously gives Mr. Burnside claimed that the re- the body no rest.
eord compared favourably with cer (e) A small quantity
of tain American cities," beverage with the meal is desir- As detectives, he said, the Chi- able, but there should be no ex-nese were both excellent and trust cess of alcohol-alcohol is not in worthy police officials. All the ordinary circumstances necessary Chinese detectives spoke English, to health; there should be, as a and the Bazopean detectives spoke rule, no alcohol befors meals or Chinese. A number of Chinese, de between meals, and none for children.
Thrown Into Ditch,
amber primroses, imprinting themed, at 5 o'clock this morning be selves at discreet intervals in the burst into tears and said: "Yes, hedges. But the five monks who It was I who killed Gaston Tri- work with the builders' tools have pheme." "PRESIDENT PIERCE"
no eyes, no ears, no time for any thing but a steady addition to that to compose himself before he gave PASSENGERS.
the details of his confession. When quiet-looking stone-grey pile that
he had recovered he stated that he rises yearly. Among passagers learing for What an achievement they are quaire! regarding the payment of killed Trupheme during a violent
Seattle by as President Pierce this symbol of faith, patience, and pheme had presented abd which be
completing Burcly this building a bill for 15,000 franes which Tru yesterday were:i.
perseverance, will rank one day as was unable to meet. He said-bo Mr. La Hing Fook, an official a most remarkable fent of architec-struck Trapheme, who fell and ap-.. connected with the Nationalist ture in modern England,
parently fractured his skull against Government in Canton, proceeding The mighty building has arisen be a piece of furniture. to the United States to study com- cause one monk sighed after the merciát svination; Mr. A. Blakeslee, abbey that bad existed, a fund was
he is attached to the National opened with one pound in it, and dead. He bought some sacking in City Bank of New York, Hong one monk who knew the stone- Houng Branch, returning home to mason's trade determined to teach which he wrapped the body and at the United States on furlough; Dr. four of his brethren who were ignor. night took it in his car into the Arthur Woo, the well known local not of the craft how to become ex- medical practitioner, on a pleasure pert builders. :. tectives had also a good knowledge trip to the North; Mr. and Mrs. H
Dawn To Dusk Task, of French, several spoke Arabic, and L. Pratt, jr., travelling to Shang- there were German and Russian hai. Mr. Pratt is the son of the They called in an architect to linguists among them. Mr. Burn. Vice-President of the Standard Oil help them. It is estimated, how Sir George, speaking of the quiring Chinese. After a two-year Caithy, who is connected with the laboured there each day from dawa necessity for exércise, said: course of study the European police Yukon Gold Co. Ampang Selangor, to dusk, ignoring trade union rules, headquarters to a waiting motor- Motoring has its advantages, but official had to continue to pass a returning to the United States: "Mr. unpaid for their work in money, car for his transference to Meluh. we must beware of becoming all semi-maual examination in the C. C. Fan, special envoy of the but abundantly recompensed by the His head was ewathed in bandagen liver and no legs. To walk to the language for the following three Nationalist Government in Canton, sight of the growing building ex- and he showed other evidence of station is better than to take an years before he was regarded as proceeding to the United States panding, have given energy that has the terrible ordeal through which
prokeient.
thence to Europe
he had gone. been valued at £100,000,
(1) There should be no active exercise immediately after 4 ineal."
omnibus.
He was horrified to find him
country. The following morning he drove to Brie-Comte-Robert. bought four cons of petrol, and went to a quiet spot in the woods, where he threw the body into a ditch, poured petrol over it, and
Mestoring was
sidé spoke of the dificulty of ac Co. in New York; Mr. E. E. Me ever, that the five monks who have set it on firerken from police
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