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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held To-day at 6.15 p.m. (Rain or Shine) at the Pavilion, Causeway Bay,
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THE FIFTH EXTRA RAJE
T MEETING will be held (wen bar
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The First Bell will do Rung at 1.15 p.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Baigei prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosura and Olab Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRE TABE upon Introduction by Member, ruch Member to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, etc.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the
Race Course.
On No Pretext will Children be
permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting
IN
THE PESSIMIST
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Nothing to do but work Nothing to eat but jood Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude
looks as though this King's God-parents had some Saucy thoughts when they chose his test two names. What he lacked war rent, immi, ambition-you know an appetite for life, and thing. Well, the stomach rules the blood, the blood rules the feelings, the foolings ará what give or enjoyment of all- thing so, what puts the stomach in good mood Maconschie's
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Hoxa KONG ÁPRIL 29, 1932 - N
THE PLEA OF "GUILTY:""
A REMARKABLE trial at the local. Sessions, in which the prisoner originally entered a plea of guilty to a charge of murder, ended on
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1932.
opinion might be. Jo small, isolated communities this rough
and ready method scared fairly good results, even though trial by ordeal was the only appeal from the jury's opinion
Tale of the Day.
eranian with her. `-`
News and Views
"Half a crown for the dog!" she said to the conductor.
That's
ridiculous," -
"Aye, you'd be cheaper to leave it and buy naither at the ither end.”.
'Robot Chairman'
*
Questionnaire Failure.
A lady was going on a long jour A new use has been found for the
The great questionnaire issued by The jury system has undergoneney by bus, and took her little Pom-automatio traße light system. A the London School of Economics "robot chairman" has been installed and sponsored by the B.B.C. has wide development, but the prisoner
in the Oldham Town Council Cham- ended in a frost. There were 16,340- ber, near Manchester, to assist the people who wanted to see what the Mayor in enforcing the 10-minute form looked like, but only 5000 who
took the trouble to fill it in. time limit on all speeches.
Immediately a member begins to This means that over £100 has speak the Mayor switches on the been spent on postage alone, to say green light.
Nine minutes later nothing of paper, printing, and this is automatically extinguished clerical work, in order that Sir to give way to the amber light, and William Beveridge may learn how a minute later the red light tells the 5000 married couples first met. And to that suggestion, by the way, speaker that his time is up!
many will wager that there are some surprising answers, for noth- ing stimulates your jester like a questionnaire.
in still naked if he pleads "guilty. " or "not guilty," and if he admits the charge his confession is accept- ed. This is unsatisfactory for two reasons. In the first place a man may be shielding someone else; in the second he may not really under- stand the legal nature and implica tions of the charge.. Self-sacrifice
Better Times in Italy,
Addressing a crowd of several thousands of Fascists assembled in the Piazza Venezia on the occasion of the thirteenth anniversary of the
to an unlimited degree on befoundation of the first Fascist half of another person is no group, Signor Benito Mussolini figment of fiction and drama.
declared that the worst of the eco- nomic crisis, as far as the internal Most of us are capable of such situation of Italy was concerned,
was now over,
stand fast.
Hint to Husbands.
Soviet Sugar Trade...
Soviet emissaries are busy in Cze choslovakia seeking skilled workers for sugar refineries, according to Electric Shocks on Sydney, Bridge.
of motorista.
action--however much we may “re-
reports. A number have already
An electrical phenomenon has Next winter, II Duce added, been obtained, but the conditions peat at leisure." Moreover, the
arisen in connection with the pass there would be more employment stipulated cause hesitancy. theatrical, impulsive and generous and it would be possible to extend
ing of motor traffic over the Sydney The wages offered are from 300
Harbour Bridge. Collectors com- instincts found in many criminals assistance on a larger scale. Mean-to 300 rubles monthly, but all say- make them particularly prone to time, the order of the day was to fings must be deposited in Soviet plained that is they were taking the Signor Mussolini's savings banks; married men may tolls from the occupants of motor. such forms of voluntary penance brief optimistic speech contrasted take families, but the Soviet re cars they received electric shocks. and atonement for the past. If with previous public utterances fuses to allow the workers to send whenever their hands touched those prisoner admits to a crime as soon when he urged his followers to en-money to Czechoslovakia. 1a he is arrested police investiga dure hard times with fortitude, tion is of necessity more perfune tory than when they know that the charge has got be proved in face of a searching defence. This leaves as opening, in complicated cases, for a person, perhaps for the sake
One of the motorista was Mr. of someone else, pertape for a
Lawrence Vine, a barrister, of Electricity escaping from the bat pecuniary consideration, or even
Teddington. A solicitor said that tories of cars is attracted on the Mr. Vine had to reach the Old 'ordinary highway by particles of under threats, to make a free but
"Aeropeinture" is not, as one Bailey early as a case in which he falso confession of guilt. There are might think, a new form of adver- was appearing was the first on the dust. But in the dustfree air, of also instances where the admissiontising in the sky, but simply a new list. So that to fulfil his duty in the bridge the electricity becomes of an offence may put an end to branch of the art of painting. Just one department of the law Mr. stored in the metal bodies of the as there are marine painters, there Vine bad to break another law... inquiries that would lead to much are also air painters," and they The other motorist was Richard cars and in the bodies of passen- more serious revelations. In actual are officially recognized since one Beady, of Hampton Hill, Middle gera..
It was stated that he broke is attached to the French Ministry | zex.
police are outmaneuvred in this way, though the danger is probably quite real in murder cases that, on the surface, present no difficulty.
Broke the Law to Fulfil Duty,
Two motorista accused of exceed "Most men learn, either by directing the 20-mile-an-hour speed limit or indirect method, that a woman, in Richmond Park pleaded at Mort- if she he normal, thrives on praise" lake Police Court that they broke
the law to fulfil a legal duty. Fannie Hurst,
New Branch of Painting,
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The bridge authorities were paz- led by the story, but it was easily verified, and expert advice was sought: Dr. Bradfield, supervising engineer of the bridge, finds the answer to the riddle in the dust- less purity of the atmosphere over tha, barbour.
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wear rubber pads on their hands, or have their boots soled with rub- ber, thus breaking the current's path to earth.
practise it is not often that the of Air. Mme. Louise Pascalis, the the park speed limit to be punctual Toll collectors will in futuro first woman "acropeintre," recently in attending the Old Bailey, where beld the second exhibition of her he was serving on a special jury. work, which was inaugurated by the Minister for Air, M. J-L Dumesnil. Her first exhibition was held at the Pavillon de Marsan, in the Louvre, in 1929.
What is more serious is that a prisoner often does not understand what a charge meana At Oxford Ataizes, shortly after the war, a
Women Want to be "Hangman,” ·
the
Amid a welter of Bolshevist and
Three women are among the ap- Thunder from the Ukraine. plicants for the post of public exe From the Ukraine comes cutioner in Hungary, which fell Methodiste Befuse Sweep Charities. vacant through the death of Ko first rumbling of summer thunder. When the president of the Metho-zarek. The would-be hangwomen According to Molotov, the Soviet young soldier pleaded guilty to adist Conference at Perth, W. Aus were much annoyed when told that Prime Minister, the Five Year Plan charge for which a maximum tralia, the Rev. Ray Hocking, re only male applicants could be con- is falling far short of its aims in
sidered.
corn, coal and transport develop- penalty of fifteen years penal ser.cently received a telephone call
ment, One was a muscular market wo- from the chairman of the board of vitude can be indicted. The, judge management for moneys collected man who said that, as she was told him not to be silly and order-from sweep competitions, stating strong and accustomed to public anti-Bolshevist propaganda it is ed a plea of not guilty to be re- that £100 was available for the activity, she would like the post, clear that in one respect the Rus corded. Five minutes' conversation Hocking refused the offer.
Methodist Homes for Children, Mr. The motive of the other two was sians have. "achieved and surpassed vengeance. One, a wainan in a the âgures of the Plan." That has between the judge and a witness
The conference executive unani- good social position, declared that been in the cost of it..
The second Five Year Fian,, which called by the Crown showed that mously endorsed the president's the wished to revenge herself on the young man had been guilty of action and urged all members and men in general for the disillusion is now being prepared, concentrates on railways, motors, farm machines, adherents of the Methodist Church ment they had brought her. an offence against morals, over which the Court had no jurisdic connection with charities competi- at the desired to hang gypsies
not to purchase sweep tickets in other sought revenge for the murder chemicals and light industries.
of her mother by gypsies, saying In another well-known in. tions. Sweep competitions are con
man pleaded guilty to ducted in this state under the cons only.
According to trol of the state government. The murder. The judge said: Did money gbtained by the board of "Magyar Nap," several of the men the newspaper, you kill the man" to which the management is distributed among applicants occupy good social posi- prisoner replied, in the affirmative
tion,
stanco 2
Tiffins ara obtainable at the Olab counsel pointed out to the judga "Did you mean to kill him " was
House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance Telephone 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
Wednesday by the jury bringing in a verdict of "not guilty." When the pleh was made the prisoner's
that the Court was empowered, in capital casca, to set aside a plen of guilty and thereby throw the usual onus on the Crown of proving the case beyond all reasonable doubti With the full circum- stances before Him Mr. JUSTICE Soldiers and Bailore in Uniform are admitted Half Prica.
Wood considered that this should Bookmakers, Tie Tao Men, etc., be done, despite the fact that the will not be permitted to operate with- in the Precincts of Tas Hong Kong prisoner seemed fully to understand JOCKET OLUB during the Race Meeting the nature of the charge, and that Tifins will be obtainable in the Ress his-action would involve a death
The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2,00, including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
taurant in the Public Enclosure.
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the next question, and the accused man at once answered, "Oh no, it was an accident.”
There was a deep-rooted tradition in the Navy and the Army (which we are sure is unknown to day) that the best thing a prisoner could do before a "court martial was to
plead guilty. Then you put the Court in a good humour and might get off lightly. If you made ex.
charitable institutions..
siona
The
·
miners of the Don Basin are watch But the Ukraine peasants and the ing sullenly the preparations for the drive which is threatened this summer to catch up to the figures of the old Plan on the corn and coal "fronts."
* Local Notes and Events
The Hong Kong dollar dropped A presentation to Mr. D. D. a farthing yesterday and was quot ed at 1s 2-7/84.
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Warren is to be made it the Kow loon Bowling Green Club, to
From the files.
The annual general moeting of morrow (Saturday) at 6.45 p.m. A tusk inscribed i the Hong Kong Polo Club will be carved ivory held to-day at 6.15 p.m. at the Presented to D. F. Warren Esq. Looking back 25 years, Pavilion, Causeway Bay by the Members of the Kowloon
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LONDON, April 28. According to the Financial Times correspondent in Toronto, the ques tion of an Empire currency will be fully discussed at the Ottawa Con-- ference:
It is understood that proposaİS
cuses they would not be believod, sentence. We do not wish to foom-
Work on the Kowloon Railway ment upon this trial, and its re-
and you did yourself no good. The We have received a copy of Bowling Green Club as a token of
Figures and Quotatious of Local respect on his departure from has been proceeding slowly of late Acting Seer fart sult, except to point out that it young soldier mentioned no doubt and Other Stecks for the month Hong Kong May 8 1920, will be owing to the heavy rains which
draws attention to an anomaly in acted on that principle, which of February, 1932, by presented to him, also an illuminat- have caused a few minor landslips will be submitted that the banks of British criminal law.
seems to have pervaded the courts Messrs. Ellis and Edgar. The, booked address.
the Empire should carry
mini on the temporary track which runs A prisoner is asked when brought at Home and in the Crown is full of useful information and is;
priced at $1
Bucaking into the cabin of Sub- between Mong Kok and Kowloon mum of ten per cent and a mari- before the Court whether he pleads Colonies. Moreover, judges usually
Lieut, G. B. Carver whilst the off- Trai The shaft which divides the mum of forty per cent. of the gold. "guilty," or "not guilty.” If ho
commend a man who pleads guilty, The fifty-first ordinary general
Erst from the second section of the value of their metallic reserves in cor was resting on Wednesday after tnanci in down 100 feet, and at this LIGHT & POWER takes the former course the judge and this encourages a dangerous Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., will table 83.33 in money but depth tunnelling operations are
meeting of shareholders of the
noon, an unemployed Chinese stole CHINA
silver. RECREATION CLUB. King's calls for such information as he practies. Before punishment is it be held at the offices of Mesars the owner, who was not asleep as going on in earnest. Those work- It is urged that this step will Park Enclgenre, BAND OF H.M.S.
CORNWALL and several WELL requires, the defending counsel flicted upon a prisoner the Crown Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., the raan had thought, promptly ar- ing on either side of the first permit the banks to take advantage
(General Agents), on Thursday, rested
should meet within the intruder. On being; section KNOWN
ARTISTES can make a pleni for leniency, and should always have to prove its May 19, at noon. Saturday, 80th April, 1938, 8.00 pm. santanos in passed.
brought before Mr. Schofield at the week, as at present the sound of the of any fuctuations in silver" and When tho qusa, beyond reasonable doubt. I Admission $1.10 (including tax).
Among the passengers sailing for Central Police Court yesterday pick can be heard through the mass tend to stabilise its price.
It will also be proposed that the [[2129 | capital charge is involved the it obviously fails to do so the the North by the Blue Funnel orning the man was sentenced to of earth which separates the work- one month's hard labour on the men. When this length is pierced matter is at once brought to an judge would find that there was steamer Hector to-day will be Mr. Inreeny charge and fined $10 or ten the length of the tunnel will be existing debased silver currency be and. There can be only one, sen- case to go to the jury. If 10 M. McDonald, News Editor of days imprisonment for trespassing something like 000 fest. The break-called in and replaced by coinage
ing out or opening up has also be- tence, and any question of .com®. aprisoner wishes to assist the the. South China Morning Post,
of pre-war standard, gun, and for a distance of 40 feat mutation passes to another autho Crown he can make a confession he will act as correspondent for Wao is proceeding to Peking, where
the tunnel has been enlarged. The
TWO TUC. APPOINTMENTS rity.
for the prosecution to road in The Times, the South China, Morn Africa at the Murray Wharf, where excavators have to go to work in This procedure dates from a very Court. He can also go into the ing Post and other newspapers a guard of honour of the Buffs, with oilskins and sou' westers owing to
THROUGH REVIZI'S AGENOT.] the hand of the regiment, was the continual dripping of the water. distant past. In a ruder, and--hox and tell his story. A little When the A.P.C. tanker Murex drawn up to receive him, while a-Hong Kong Daily Preat – April
LONDON, April 27.72 simpler age justice was done more public time would be taken arrived in Singapore from Hong malute was fired from the shore bat-29, 1907,
The General Council of he Trade by asking a prisoner if he were if this procedure were adopted but Kong, revenue officers from the battery. The Admiral, with his Aide-
bour division of the Monopolies de camp then proceeded to Govern Looking back 50 years,
Union Congress has appointed MỸ, guilty, and if he denied the charge, we suggest that by this means quite Department made a search and ment House, where he was received
J. Bromley (Chairman) and Mr.. a mamber of loend worthies, who manber of unsatisfactory cases found 1,545 taels of non-Govern by His Excellency the Administra- Yesterday Rear Admiral Aslam Walter Citrine (General Secretary) knew the prisoner and all the would be properly sifted, and the ment opium, valued at 812,000 hid- tor. The Admiral also visited the begoff, Commander-in-Chief of the as advisers to accompany the Gove circumstances, were asked to inform chances of miscarriage of justice den in the port side coffer dam, Victor Emmanuel, and received Russian squadron in the Pacific, ernment delegation to advission inert an empty. tank between two full the usual algte as he left-Hong landed officially from the flagship dustrial questions at the Oltdwatuk tanks the presiding judge what their would be reduced.
Kong Daily Pren. April 20, 1882 (Continued on previous l'alumn"). Conference,
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