"MISS RADCLIFFE, HALL'S NOVEL.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1929,
HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.
"APPEAL DISMISSED AT LONDON QUARTER SESSIONS. Forts for the week ending January
ber
JUDGE SAYS: A SUBTLE AND
DANGEROUS BOOK.
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The appeal against the order made by Sir Charters Biron, the Bow-street magistrate, on Novem
16th, that
number of seized copies of Misa Ead clyffe Hall's book "The Well of Loneliness" should be destroyed was dismissed at London Sessions on 'December 18th.
The appeal was on behalf of Mesir. Jonathan Cape, Limited, publishers, of Bedford-square, and Mr. Leopold B. Hill, of Oreat Russellstreet, representative of the Pegasus Press, Paris
the development of the character of Stephen. The second friendship is with a woman called Angela, the wife of a man Raphael. The shird friendship, and this is the culmina tion of the story, as with a woman called Mary.
"Eventually," he said "the con test which leads to the conclusion of the book is one for the posses zion of Mary between Stephen and a young man named Martin who had fallen in love with Mary. The mother and father of Stephen ara represented as deeply disappointed Sir Thomas Inskip, K.C. (At-with the birth of a girl instead of torney-General), Mr. Eustace Ful-son, but the story is concerned ton, and Mr. Bentley Purchase not with the disappointment of the were for the Crown, and Mr. J. B. parents, but with the character of Belville, K., and Mr. Walter Stephen.
Frampton were for the appellanta. The mother of Stephen, as the Sir Robert Wallace, K.C., pre-book" proceeds," he added, "is de- uided over Bench of Justices picted as utterly out of sympathy which included two women.
with the girl. The time comes Miss Radclyffe Hall" was given a when the contrast is between seat at the solicitors' table.
Stephen's character оп the one hand and the stern character of the mother."
The Attorney-General, opening the case, said that the only point in the case was whether the book, "The Well of Loneliness," was an abscene production.
The Health Bulletin of Eastern 10th states:-
-Plague.
Bombay: 1 death.
Bangkok: 1 case, 1 death.
Pnom Penh cases, 2 deaths. Baghdad: 9 cases.
Bombay rane 3. Cholera.
JARAN'S AIR SERVICES.
TOKYO TO DAIREN IN A DAY,
CINEMA NEWS ADOLPHE MENJOU IN SER VICE FOR LADIES."
MAN AND WIFE IN AN "OMNIBUS SCENE.
STRAPHANGING RULE
DISPUTE
relitale. The pan said, "You know standing after 10 p. is. allowed for fourteen days before Chritmaa Ho aid that he did rot, and as-Hooker, yould not go of he opped the immibus sad called the police. Hooker (WAN arrested.
A regular passenger, air servios
The head waiter of a famous between Tokyo and Dairen, in the Parisian hotel is Adolphe Menjou's Kwantung Leased territory, will be which can be seen at the Queen's missioner of Police, allowing pas. Hooker became axaited when bor
new role in Service For Ladies
A regulation made by the Com. Other evidence was that Mr. inaugurated sometime in April by to-morrow and Monday,
Menjou is once more in the Farisgengers to stand inside an omnibus | husband was arrested, and she was Eleven infected rats found in the Nihon Koku Tuso Kaisha, the which serves as so perfect & back. at certain hours was responsible also arrested. She became more. company which received a 20,000,000-ground for his escapades, but this, for the appearance of Henry and violent in the station, where the yen antidy from the Japanese. time his heroine is beautifni Emily Hooker husband and wife, Licked the policeman on the thin blonde, who, meeting tim outside at Tower Bridge Police Court, on Government last year for this par: the hotel where he is employed, charges of insulting words and beKeeble on the arm outside their and bit him and Palice Sergeant pose. This air service will reduce believes him by his dreas to be shaviour. the time of the journey between the gentleman of her own clars. He cities by more than three-fourths, does not disillusion ber and the complications that follow supply making in 13 hours and 60 minutes the star with a light comedy plot the trip which now takes at least that gives him excellent opportu three days by rail and water.
nity. Winter sport in the Swiss Alps and thrilling scenes of tobog gan eliding are among the interest
ng features of the production.
Bassein: I death. Calcutta: 13 deaths. Negapatam: 9 deaths, Rangoon: 1 death. Tuticoria: 3 cases, 15 deaths. Pondicherry1 death. Colombo 1 case. Bangkok: 11 cases, 7 deaths. Saigon: -3 cases, 1 death. Pnom Penh 1 case.
Small-pox.
Aden: 1 case.
Basrah: 5 cases, 4 deaths. Bombay: 34 cases, 13 deaths. Calcutta: 8 cases, b deaths. Madras: 50 cases, 8 deaths. Moulmein: cases. Negapatam: 3 casea. Tuticorin; I case," Vizagapatam: 9 cases. Pondicherry: 2 deaths.
Belawan Deli: 5 cases, 1 death. Pnom Penh 11 esses, 8 deaths. Saigon: 9 cases...
Shanghai: 15 deaths, Canton: 14 cases, death. Macao: 2 deaths.» Nagasaki: 1 case...
It is planned to make the trip in four hops. The first, from Tokyo to Osaka, will take 4 hours and 30 minates; the second, Osaka to Fa- kuoka, 3 hours and 20 minutes; the third, Fukuoka to Keijo, 3 bours and 40 minutes; and the last, Keijo. to Dairen, 4 hours
Twelve airplanes have been order- el by the company, six from Holland and six from America. Both shipments have been made and ore expected to arrive some time in February. The planes represent the company's biggest investment, as it already has acquired the privilege of wing any of the land- ing-fields now existing in Japan. Virtually the only other original outlay will be the expense of build-
private hangars at the fields, which are, now under construction and are expected to be completed during March.
Sir Thomas said the whole book was meaningless except on the sub- mission which he put forward. He Test Of Obscenity.
knew of only two references in There was no mystery or mas literature to women such as were querading about The Well of Lord Chief Justice Cockbars, he described. The one was in the first Loneliness," he said. It faced the said, had given the following tast Chapter of the Epistle to the fact that there existed a class of of obscenity: Whether the ten- Romans and the other was in the women who were more attracted to dency. of the matter charged with Sixth Book of Juvenal. obscenity is to deprave and corrupt. It would not be disputed, be sex.
their own sex than to the opposite
That was those minds which are open to auch "said, that the vice was an
a phase of life A multiple "division service " which un-
existed, and immoral influences and in whose natural one, and The Well of acknowledged the facts and con- Two tripa each way daily except the book will be instituted along the route. hands publications of this sort may Loneliness was a picture of indul-sidered the problems, reactions and Sunday will be made between Tokyo fall"
He was dealing with a case gence in it. He read a number of situations which must arise which concerned the practice of long passages from the book, and consequence of it. The subject was
in and Osaka; six trips each way be confession, and said concerning the commented on them.
tween Osaka and Fukuoka, three' dealt with, be submitted, in a man- trips between Fukuoka and Keijo; books in that case, It is quite What does this meant he ask-ner which could call for no com- certain they would suggest to the ed of one. "Imagine a poor wo plaint at all on the ground of in-Dairen. A one-way ticket over the and thres between Keijo and minds of the young of either sex, man or a young man ready it. decency." or even to persons of more advane What is the picture conjured
route will cost 145 yen. ed
years, thoughts of a mbat im at once? The man would ask pure character,
What does this woman mean It corrupte bim, conjures ture which the writer of this book UP & pic- intends":
Later, be remarked, "Some may think this book is corrupt because of the why it brings the name of God into the discussion of these
The Attorney-General then relat ed the facts in the case. The Well of Loneliness," he said, was published by Mears. Jonathan. Cape. In consequence of some at tention which was drawn to the book Mears. Cape sent a copy of it to the Home Secretary, apparent-passions." ly for an opinion as to its charac Another comment he made with ter. He read the correspondence much emphasia WAS: This in between the Home Secretary and more subtle, demoralising, cor- Messrs Jonathan Cape, Including rosive, corruptive, than anything A letter from Messrs. Cape, is that was ever written.... which they said, "In view of your hardly need ask what is the pie decision we have no other course ture conjured op to minds that are than to discontinue the sale of the open to immoral influence" book."
That, he said, appeared to be clear, emphatic, and unambiguous. What happened was that instruc tions were given to the printers at Frome, Somerset, to stop the print ing of the book, but to prepare moulds of the type and to supply or deliver in accordance with in- structions the balance of the paper which had not been used. That was done. Instructions were given later that the title page and the fore page were to be set up in type and moulds similarly made of that type, because it was not possible for the printers in Paris, who had been instructed to print the book, to set up type similar to that used in the book.
Mr. Melville said that the writer
had dealt with the topic with more Japan at present are those between The only regular air lides in than ordinary restraint. ship here," he said.
There is no question of censor- Tokyo and Osaka and Tokyo and I submit Sendai, both of which are operated that if the Bench will bear with by the Asahi Shimbun, one of the me in examining the book it will largest of Tokyo's vernacular news- be seen that it satisfies what has papera Airplane service is expect bean well said is the distinctioned to prove exceptionally valuable tion between real literature and
in Japan because the trains are un- pornographic work."
able to make good time dua to the ever-present mountain ranges The trip from Tokyo to Osaka by train now takes 10 hours; by plane the time is 2 hours and 60 minutes.
When Mr. Melville intimated that he did not propose to call wit nesses, the Attorney-General spoke to Mr. Rudyard Kipling, who then left the Court, Sir William Will- cox, the Home Office expert, also left.
Mr. Melville, continuing, zaid I think I can best leave the that there was nothing in the book book to speak for itself," said the which held up the normal life of Attorney-General very deliberately. the married characters to anything Unfortunately all of us in the but the highest admiration. The course of life acquire knowledge of book showed the tragedy of the life human nature and of life which is of Stephen, and with the motive sufficient to enable any of us to which animated, ber finally and de- form an opinion as to obscenity,cisively be submitted that it could Obscenity must be judged by the standard of the laws of this realm. The fact that someone who wrote a book did not intend it to be obscence does not matter. I know nothing about the intention of the writer of this book; I do not know anything about the writer," and I suggest that the Court does not need to. The character of the book is what is in question.
"The book seeks to glorify a vice "One fact that is important," or to produce a ples of toleration aaid the Attorney-General, is for the people who practise it, he. that the French firm, to the know-aid. "I do not know if it mas ledge of Messrs. Jonathan Cape, querades under the description of circularised a large number of sons in this country, advising them edin) or scientific book, but it
is not in fact. It is propaganda.
Trae Work Of Literature," Mr. Melville, for the appellants, said that he would relieve the Court of any suspicion as to who ther it was going to be suggested that the book was either a medical
to purchase a copy of the book."
"I now come to the book itself." said the Attorney General, copies of the book were then hand ed to the Bench:"
cad
clyffe Hall's new novel, is con cerned with the Phenomenon of the masculine woman in all its implications. The novel handles very skilfully paychological. problem, which needs to be under stood in view of its growing im portance"
not be held that the book was de- praved. It gravely and resolutely. treated a human problem. It ask- ed not for approbation of an un- natural practice, but for under- standing of the invert, and Chris tian charity for those whose mis- fortune it was to be differently con stituted from their fellows.
The Attorney-General, replying, said that certain passages quoted by Mr. Melville might be above criticism if they stood alone.
The whole book as to 99 per cent.. of it might be beyond eriticism, yet one passage might make it a work which would have to be destroyed
za obscene. *
Court's Decision.
Sir Robert Wallace, announcing the decision of the Court, said: "The book is admittedly neither. a scientific nor a medical book “It is a novel addressed to the general
The
He read the following passage from the paper jacket of the book:
"The Well of Loneliness, Rad.r soientific work. It was exactly public which reads novela.
and it was the submission of the what it purported to be, a novel, view to which I am giving expres
sion is the unanimous view of the of literature, and not a pornogra been accepted for sixty years 18. appellants that it was a true work Court. The definition which has
After communicating with the these books is whether the tendency phic production.
to what is the test in regard to Home Secretary in August, he of the matter is to deprave." and said, Mr. Ospe acted just as hastily corrupt those whose lives are open as the Home Secretary appeared to have done hastily because after to whose hands publications of this to such immoral influences and in- wards he had to consider that he sort may fall. was not the only person concerned. He later reconsidered the attitude he had taken in the light of the care he had to take of the interest of other persons. On August 20th
wrote to the Home
A further extract from the jac ket, said the Attorney-General, was an appeal, and a rather seductive appeal, to all thoughtful people to read the book. He read the follow ing extracts from the statement:
It presents the life story of 4 girl born out of
would be neither depraved nor cor- There are plenty of people who rupted by reading a book like this," he said. "But it is to those whose minds are open to such woral influences that I refer. The
sphere and whose devoted parents required and expected a son in her place. The publishers have been deeply impressed by this "I think I am right," said Mr.indication as to the general ten- study, and have felt such a book Melville, that apparently no dency, but the book must be taken should not be lost to those will. lengthy or careful consideration as a whole. ing to understand and appreciate had been given to the matter.
on the following day came an ex-character of the book cannot pression of opinion from the Home gathered from Secretary.
the reading of isolated passages. They gire an
"
!! The view of the Court is that. The Attorney-General-My friend this book is a very subtle book. "It That is Mr. Jonathan Cape's must not assume that when the let in one which is insinuating and statement, said the Attorney-ter was sent that was the only opprobably much more dangerous bé General. "For all I know the portunity for looking at the book cause of that fact. It is most book may contain very fine writing. Bir Robert Wallace What does dangerous and corrupting book. I have nothing to do with that it matter? It always comes back It is a book the general tendency The whole question is abscenity, to the question, Is the book of which would be to corrupt the bearing in mind the test of obscene 1"-
minds of those who may reid it. obscenity laid down by authority" that a most distinguished body of commend unnatural practices, cer- Mr. Melville recalled the fact: It is a book which, if it does not
give their views from witnesses Who Were Propria to tainly condone of
" point of | thai those guilty of them should view of lierature, medicine and so not receive the consequences they Stephen is the heroine of it," on; as to the value and decency of deserve to suffer.
Plot Outlined.
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He then described in broad out line the plot of the book, phot
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be said The story begins with her the book, were excluded by the Put in word," he added, birth, and the child from very magistrate from giving evidence. the view of this Court is that early years is depicted as a child He could not say whether from a this is a disgusting book when pro- with unnatural tendencies. The legal point of view that was 4 perly road. It is an obnosne book, book deals with the friendship of wrongful exclusion, but he propos and a book prejudicial to the this girl, afterwards woman, el to make no lengthy submimiau, morals of the community. In opr with thren person
AbeBooze bónditiontrade by the angio ***The first friendship is with a my that: that evidence in this ap- trate is perfectly correct, and the
housemaid in the household. That peal was inadmissible
appeal mu bo dismissed with friendship is but an incident in
Costa,"
(Dontinued on next Column).
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Mr. Hooker was also accused of overcoats. assaulting Station Police Sergeant Keeble and Police Constable Knopp, by biting them.
Gerald Dixon, the omnibus con- ductor, stated that Hooker and his wife entered his omnibus at Spa Road. Only one seat as vacant and he said that one must leave the
Mrs Hooker said that her fore finger was broken, and she was badly bruised owing to the violence of four policemen, who dragged her into the station.
She Was fimed 20s on the first charge and a. on each of the charger of assault.
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