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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1930.
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
WHEN YOU SEE THE CONDUCTOR REGARDING JUNIOR SUSPICIOUSLY, AND LAUNCH INTO YOUR INVOLVED EXPLANATIONS THAT HE'S REALLY ONLY ELEVEN IT'S JUST HIS GLASSES THAT MAKE HIM SEEM OLDER, THOUGH OF COURSE HE'S BIG FOR HIS AGE, AND ALTHOUGH, YOUR CONCIENCE IS CLEAR YOU FEEL LIKE A MARKED MAN FOR THE REST OF THE TRIP.
(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
1.
THE ESPERANTO CONGRESS.
A REVIEW.
THE LEARNED WORLD'S INDIFFERENCE.
matter.
virtually all the countries of Europe and Arin talking to each. other easily and freely. It must not, of course, be supposed that they could talk as freely as the peo- ple of one country can talk with. each other. That is not the right standard of comparison. The com- parison is with the degree of cour prehension with which people of different nations can talk to each other in any given nations] lan Kunge. And there Esperanto stands the teat. What no one who has not studied the question on ever completely realise is the case with which the language is learned. The makes less demand on the memory whole grammar of the language
than
the declension of German
nouns or the conjugation of French regular verbs. In this way the point at which comfort of speech is attained comes sooner.
many times
legal age, who rarely leave their Carn town, whose holidays hardly mount up to ten days in the year, then it can only be Esperanto or some equally simple created langu-
agy.
8-15
HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
[ORDERS BY THE HON. ME. E. D. G WOLFE, c.3.0.., INSPECTOR.
GENERAL OF POLICE.]
The Inspector Gonernt of Police, wishes to express his appreciation of the services rendered by the Hong Kong Police Reserve in per- forming special Police duties on October 10.
THE STAGE'S REPLY TO THE CINEMA.
NEW REPERTORY VENTURE IN LONDON.
“HOUSE OF PRETENCE.”
Mr. Alex Rea, of Reandeo, and Mr. A. R. Whatmore, late of the Hull Repertory, have" opened a 'season of plays with fortnightly changes of bill at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London, which is comfortable, capacious, and ensily renohed. The management is a strong combination, rich in ex- perience, and one can only hope that the results will be as popular as the prices, which are of a kind Lo destroy the argument that the cinema offers inore comfort for tas
money.
An interesting programme har been arranged with new pieces by Mr. Lennox Robinson and Mr. Dion Tithermdge, as well as some inch Warted revivals, such a Mr. Somerset Maugham's Home and Beauty" Misa' Edith Sharone, who did so much good work at Hull ́and recently gave a memorable perform ane in London of the ageless woman in. Capek's "The Macropon- los Serret," is one of the leaders of the company,
Villains Made Not Bern,
The opening was made with the work of a new dramatist. Mr. Roy Jordan. The idea is that villains are made, not born, and that some have villainy thrust upon them as much by four unhappy walls as by satanic temptation, The House of Pretence is a boarding-house. or
"private hotel" in Bayswater which degenerates into a back-por. lour of Beelzebub. Here old ladies may fade into insignificance and imbecility, the younger are seized with dovila of snobbishness and malice. The idea and the acting are both over-worked, and a dark tripple, first warped in body and then in mind, becomes positively demonic in her endel conspiracies for the torturing of her fellow-pri
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ner. She plots against the young Christine, who, after a miscroble and peccant youth, marries into the. blue blood of Monmouthshire, and is followed to Wales by the limping Police Training School.
lady with a load of mischief and The weekly classes for Police Re-A hearty appetite for blackmail. servists at the Police Training Swollen rivers often solve theatrical School, Kowloon, will be held to problems, and the author has the of the Chinese Company, and of the making any waters quenchun- morrow at 330 p.m. All members precedent of Rosmeraholin" for Flying Squad who have not yet and Christine is left to lead society happy life. The cripple goes under passed, Part II. of Training Course should attend.
in Monmouth, to cherish her landed husband, to hunt the fox, and to cherish the awful secret that she about the rickety footbridge. Stil might have warned: the cripple
you could hardly blame her. The lame persecutor might be described Leave. Constables R.204
as popping up and asking for it. A. Karim and R.298 Lai Khan have re-as to plunge into melodramatic
It is a vigorous play, so vigorous to turned from leave.
Indian Company. Strength. Constabie R261 Abdul Rahman has been taken on the from October 1, 1930. strength of the Indian Company, as
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and cap with khaki cover.
The weekly instructional patrol of the Hong Kong Section will take place on Friday. Fall in at the Central Police Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress: Khaki uniform and cap with khaki cover.
moods and tensions. The portrai ture of the boarding-house suffers from over-emphasis. The victims of are given outlines in charcoal, But that place need delicate etching and there are ideas about and a desire not. to put the same petty puppets in the same lounge-hall. Edith Sharpe the new repertory has a leading lady of first-rate ability, whose work in maturer plays will eagerly be awaited.
In Miss
A NEW TYPE OF INTERNATIONAL. -
The Esperanto Congress which has concluded at Oxford has in no way touched the life of the Uni- versity says a Pregs correspondent, By the first week of August all the students and most the dons had goa. Indeed, only one member of Congregation, was a member of the Congress. However even had the Congress been held at some other Moreover, a working knowledge titne of year it is doubtful whether of the language can be obtained by people whose circumstances would it would have aroused much inter-not permit them to master & D est in hosdemic Oxford. For sc- tional language. In the past we have had universal languages; in. aderric men as a class are not great the Middle Ages, Latin; in the ly interested in the problem of in-eighteenth century, French; but ternational language. This may these were only attainable by a seem at first sight paradoxical, select minority. If there is ever to be a language which the ordin- They of all men should be consciary working people can learn, those ous of the trouble and disharmony who leave school at the earliest enused by language barriors. The fact remains, however, that they are not much concerned about the For one thing, they have already a large variety of into]- lectual interests and have no need convinced me on
My expreienco at the congrom another point LIVERPOOL INQUEST STORY.
to turn to interlanguage as a hob- about which I had long been doubt by, which it is to many less high-ful. I had thought that, although Sarah Higgins (45), a widow, livly educated people. But most pro- English as the international Ian- far from ideal, the adoption of ing with her parents at Walton,bably the reason for their indifer Liverpool, was a laundress on the
Sharpshooters' Company. nce is pride in their own linguistic guage might be desirable because s.s. Laconia, and on the return voy-nelievemente.
inore obtainable as a matter of
Riot Drill-Riot Drill will be age from New York in May she was
practical politics. But when one carried out to-morrow. Mambera Most of our scholars have a good has experienced the advantages of will assemble at the Queen's Pier taken ill with abdominal pains and knowledge of French and very fre- the neutrality of Esperanto one at 5.10 p.ro, with riflen, revolvers was operated on at aca by the ship's surgeon.
quently German and Italan na well. On arrival at. Liverpool she was
Most of their travelling takes them once how undesirable it and truncheons, Uniform if pos to these three countries; most of world at a linguistic disadvantage bers who have not yet attended
would be to put the rest
of the sible. It is requested that all mem: taken to the Southern Hospital, where she told her mother that she
the other scholars whom they moet to the English-speaking nations. those drills should be present. thought she had had appendicitis.
can speak one of these three langu- Quito apart from the mechanical After a stay of some weeks at tho
ages. The language problem thera-imperfections of such a solution, Southern Hospital, she was sent to
foro does not exist for them. This, it would bo morally undesirable, of course, is the purest nonsense. the Southpart Convalescent Home.. but subsequently returned to the leaves out those parts of the Southern Hospital,
world where less-known languages One of the most interesting things | tary) at Bowen Road Revolver This is the fourth As it BAK thought a further operation was are spokon, nor does it take no about the congress was the gaiety Range will be discontinued until the first having been held at Boissy necessary. She was not operated count of the degrees of imperfec. and vivacity of its atmosphere. further orders as the Range has In-Rivère, the second in Freiburg, on again and was sent to the Waltion, with which even scholars This was the result of the large been placed at the disposal of per and fast year's at Bedale's School. ton Infirmary, where an operation speak foreign languages. No one number of young people who were sons holding arms licences so na to Petersfield, It is, as before, under was performed by Dr. Alexander who has heard an Oxford don coro-attending it. Many of the young enable them to pass the necessary the direction of Miss Gilpin, of the course qualifying them for the re Hall School, Weybridge. Many of Kit Wilson, who found that she fully pick his way through a non- foreigners were making their first
tence in French or German, sweat-trip abroad. Many of the young newal of their licences on January the 100 dildren have boon to the was suffering from intestinal ob struction and a strangulated intesing with agony lost he should make British people were having for the 1091. The Revolver Range will provious gatherings, and corre tine. In the course of the operation
un orror in grammar, CAD suppose first time the exhilarating expori-
bo open to all persons possessing spond throughout the year in ench arms licences to enable them to other's Innguage. All of them. a "dab" was found in the abdo. for one moment that he is listenence of talking to formiguera. Ono
qualify for the renewal of their loys and girls are between the ages minal cavity, which was removed, ing to one soul communing with of the best things at the congress but the woman died later.
another.
was the performance in Esperanto
licencca on Wednesday, October 15, of twelve and sixteen. At the inquest Dr. Wilson ex-
An Equal Start.
"Charley's Aunt" ("La Onklino
and Friday, October 17, from 5.30 A great deal of hard work at the pressed the opinion that the pre-
pan. to 7.30 p.m. In order to pre-languages is voluntarily undertaken. The indifference of the learned da Charley), which was given by sence of the "dub" had not in any world in England to internatioalcast which included English, est congestion on the Range only by the children, with the help of trained revolver shots should attend lenders of each nationality. Origin. way accelerated death, which was language is not the monzure of the French, Polish, and Hungarian ac due to natural causes.
Dr. Ralph Vincent Howell, linguiatie gifts but an indicationors with a very talented profes-on Wednesdays, and arms licences al plays are prodused by
requiring instruction should attend groups in which are representatives surgeon of the Laconis, said he desirablo in intercourse with for-
of their low standards of what is sional to take the principal part.
on Fridays. The more serious activities took
of each nationality, and in which (8gd.) D. L. KING. each one speaks in a foreign lan- operated on the woman at sen, and eign peuples. Esperanto has this many forms: One Sunday divi he had no knowledge how the. "dab"
D.S.P. (R.)... guage. An international choir, and got into the abdominal cavity un.
advantage over all national ton-service in Esperanto, both in Ca-
orchestra have been formed and leas it was in the course of the sub
gyes that when people speak, ittholic and Protestant churches, : sec--
contribute to the evening entor. sequent dressing of the wound dur
they start, equal, no one having tional meetings for such purposes
tainments. The Afternoons an advantage over the other. More as discussing police mothads, stono ing "swalbing."
The most lasting impression loft spent in playing football (dearly. over, the extreme simplicity of the graphy, pacifism, Freemasonry, by the congress is the contrast beloved by the French and Germans, Nurse Lily Parker, of the Laconia, said she was present dur
grammar, eniblos one to convorse Catholicism, Pan-Europa, phar tween the success of the congrees however hot the weather). Schlag ing the operation on the ship and freely and unselfconsciously in a mocy, and, most interesting of all, internally and its failure to make ball" (taught by the German) counted the "dabs" lined in the way which years of practice in n meetings for blind Esperantists, mark upon the world outside. To and cricket (taught by the English) eas and found them correct. national language would not ch- Esperanto has many followers those who have once taken up the Excursions are also being made to
There is a probability that ons surd..
among the blind because it offors study of international language 8 Gorinain-en-Laye, Versailles, was loft in," sho aid, but I de The Congress nt Oxford would them a chance of learning a lan- nothing is stranger than the indif and Paris Danging to a “fi Her town (ciunt, under deve in but the tune with "pand powerTraits of deaths mangwerkere baad Beward demon in haknes "I prejudiced of the success of Esperand many books are printed in for praca, and co-operation to the countries) composed of some of the The jurg returned a verdict of auto as a language. Hors were se Esperanto braille.
necessary, mechanics of their pro children themselves, usually enda Ferdi hundred delogates from" (Continued at foot of next column.) 'blem.
the day.
stand it, if one was left."
death from natural causes.
the
GATHERING OF SCHOOL- CHILDREN IN FRANCE.
has been kindly lent by him for an The Chateau de Bures, owned by an American, Dr. Prince Hopkins, international gathering of school- General,
children. French, German, and Rovolver Practice. Tho regular gether here, their main object being English children are living to A Gay and Vivacious Atmosphere. weekly revolver practice (volun- to learn each other's languages.
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