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PROF. BROWN'S LECTURE
Masterly Review Of Venetian History
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG
DAILY PRESS."]
Sir,-With reference to Pro- fessor Brown's lecture on "Venice? It WHA difficult for you to convey in such short compass an impression of a lecture covering
a thousand years of history: may I try to give your readers somé idea of what it was all ‘about?·
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]
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Dear
Str. On behalf of the
Cathedral Church Chuncil I write to thank very sincerely the various contributors to the Cathedral Rea- Location Fund, who have now given us all the money required for immediately necessary work. Any, further optributions received will. bo invested as the nucleus of Fabric Fund.
I would add a word of personal gratitude and congratulation to the Hon. Treasurer and other Members of the Cathedral Church Council and your esteemed paper for their energetic handling of the restoration and the appeal. They have taken a great load off the shoulders of the Dean, and freed bim for the spiritual work which is his job--and mine. Yours faith fully,
RONALD HONG KONG, The Bishop's House,
Hong Kong, 14th Nov, 1933.
ANGLO-CHINESE FRIENDSHIP
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
LORRY SMASH AT
ABERDEEN
Two Deaths From As Car Plunges
An inquiry which was hold in the fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton, into the Central Magistracy yesterday be-
Kai whose demise was caused by deaths of Chung Sam Toi and Ho a lorry plunging over an embank Lack of available time to bere all meat, was adjourned until to-day; witnesses was the cause of the ad- journment,
The procedinge opened with Dr. A. D. Pringle who conducted the post mortem giving testimony. Dr. Pringle gave post-mortem evidence, stating that in his opinion death was due to injuries sustained by the {fall,
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CASE AGAINST P. C. ROBINSON
Matter Referred To LG.P.
Robin-
16, 1933.
CHINESE BANKS FAIL
Sequel To Continued
Run
ASSETS REPORTED TO BE 'TIED UP?'
drawal of the summonses against. An application: for the with-
son for assaulting two employees Police Constable William
Two very prominent Chinese of the Yee Tin Tong Dispensary Banks have been forced during longing to the firm was made by to a heavy run on them by de- and for damaging property be- the week to suspend business due Mr. R.CH Lim, counsel for the positors complainants before Balfour at Central yesterday.
Mr. B. F. The banks concerned, The Magistracy Cheong Loong of 151 Queen's
The cross-summonses brought by P. C. Robinson for obstruction in the execution of his duties and for allowing small human Agures also with to be exhibited were drawn by Mr. J. A. Fraser the A statant Attorney General
Following Dr. Pringle, Chung Chow, a coolio who was riding on a lorry, number 1519 just in front of the death-dealing car, gave his In making his application, Mr. version of "the accident, stating Lim said that he learnt from Mr. that both vehicles were proceding Fraser that he had agreed that to Stanley when suddenly he notice the defendant, as a police offcer. ed that the car following had "dis-had to some extent exceeded bis appeared. He returned along the power. Both he and Mr. Fraser road and discovered that the lorry felt that the matter could be as- had gone over the embankment, te tisfactorily dealt with by the IG. aiding the injured helped to remove that Mr. Fraser would refer the climbed down the bank and after. P., and, on the understanding the two dead, men from the wreck matter to him, he wished the sum- mons he withdrawn. He had been instructed by his client to say
Road, Centràl and the Shun
Loong of 139 Queen's Road, Cen- tra are reported to be connected with six native banks in Canton, which suspended business at the
same time.
Mr. Pua Hin, Choi a leading local merchant, who is known for his many philantropic gifts to deserving causes is the managing since the "run" started, Mr. Pun director of these banks and ever
zible effort to prevent an enforced is known to have made every pos- closing down.
ing to unconfirmed reports, lar The assets of the banks, accord-
lures are said to be traceable to exceed the liabilities and the fai-
the fact that a good deal of the
assets have been invested in local shares and property which could
that the Yee Tin Tong Dispensary not be immediately converted was a frm of long standing, and into cash when panicky, deposi- its proprietor. Mr. Wai Shin Paktors started the "run" It is re- was at present a director of the ported that to meet the situation. Tung Wah Eospital.
a whole block of houses held by other
were made.
Mr. Fraser, in his application, said that he could not agree with similar efforts to avert disaster Mr. Lim's last remarks. The com- plainant's position could in 10 The failure of the Chinese way affect the case for the de-banks have caused a profound fence and should not weight with sensation in the Colony in general the prosecution. He was appearing and banking and business circles in a dual capacity, to defend the in particular, and, it is needless police officer, and to prosecute in to add. has reacted on local share the cross-summonses. In tairness and property markets. to the defendant, he had denied the assault and the proceedings:
Professor Brower began with the disarming confession that he had been in Venice but twice, and then for a very short time. However, he soon showed that Sir, I read with much interest this statement Was immaterial, Mr. Lankester's address in the as his purpose was to estimate Cathedral
fostering closer "The Pince of Venice in History" friendship with the Chinese people and only incidentally to describe and the City. He explained how. un same subject this morning.*** der the impact of invasions by I can well appreciate Bir. Lan-age. He also told the court that Barbarian hordes (Huns, Goths kester's point of view, in that it is prior to the post mortem he and Vandalsi the people In impossible to have genuine friend- identified the bodies. Northern Italy, living under the ship with a nation and its people. Aw Tat Sang, driver of the unless there is a thorough under-wrecked car, is still in hospital weakening power of Rome, were compelled to take refuge on the standing of their language, customs Puffering from injuries, but a state- small islands that fringe the and manners. In fine, the first re- ment in writing was read out which north-western shores of the Ad-quisite towards that understanding declared that he was driving to- riatic. Thereby
the banks were sold and dozen little is to aim at entertaining tolerant wards Stanley, and, when nearing towns came into existence, the in- views of those who seem to you to aberdeen, he had to pass through habitants increasing in numbers. stand at the opposite poles of hu- group of pedestrians, one
of strength condence, enterprise man thought and sentiment, The whom ran across the road in front and independence of spirit. world is still so sadly divided to of his car. He swerved to avoid The Venetians embarked on a day because mankind in general him sad before he could straighten remarkable career of commercial only pays lip-service to the ideal his course the vehicle had plunged enterprise and political develop-of concord between nations. First through the wall and over the em ment that raised them to emin dispel the ignorance and prejudice bonkurent. ence in medieval Europe. They of one another, and the better out- became great sea-traders, and look between nations will follow shipbuilders-a Colonial Power. To use a Biblical phrase Cleanse By the 14th and 15th centuries first that which is within the cup they sent out annually six trad and platter, that the outside of ing fleets of 500 ships each and them may be clean also. The root anticipating the British Board of evil is the lack of intellectual and Trade and Mr. Henry Ford had spiritual efforts. a loadline painted on each ship, I do bot deny that since the bullt standardised vessels, and Armistice in 1918, there is greater held stocks of "spare parts" in understanding of each other among all ports to which they traded. the peoples of the earth than ever The condensed description before. There can be no doubt that which Professor Brown gave of the relations between nation have the Venetian trade was calculated for the past fifteen year been to make present-day merchants radically transformed by mechanis months water. Here it is: cal inventions and applied sciences. "By way of Alexandria and Nations sau come into quicker and other sta-ports of the Levant, closer contact with each other by came cloves nutmegs and ebony means of rail and steamship and from the Moluccas; sandalwood motor and by aircraft. from Timor: camphor from Borneo; tact between the antions is there benzine from Java and Sumatra; fore more frequent. The frontier perfumes, spices, silk and many of states are hardly obstacles to curiosities from China. Јарав
commerce, and distances which our and Slam: fubies from Burma forefathers regarded as formidable pepper, ginger, brocades and fine do not divide us. The telegraph,, the last named acting as fore- fabrics. jewellery, and
man didate telephones, and wireless asimilate weapons, from various parts of the thought of peoples and even India; pearls. topazes and cinna- the cinema may effect, the elimina-
The con-
Chan Hoi, an apprentice driver who was in the cab at the time of the accident and received head in juries bore out this testimony and stated that he considered the mishap unavoidable.
Lung See, nastber coolie called in to witness contributed nothing to the solving of the case, while Ching How who was another of the injured informed the court that the car was travelling at a moderate speed but failed to identify the driver from a photograph.
Ng Yan, the last witness called, mentioned how he had conveyed the injured workmen across the bay in his sampan and was commended for going to their rescue in spite of the rough water. His was the only bast which ventured near the shore where the wreck lay and he made two trips carrying away the vie είται.
The coroners jury consisted of Messrs. Morris, Tse and J. Robin-
mon from Ceylon: resins from tion of that sense of stranger JAPAN'S IMPERIAL
are no
Persia and Afghanistan: ivory which has hindered contact with from Zanzibar: musk from Thi-foreigners. Nations have oppor- bet."
tunities for frequent conference and Professor Brown briefly sketch ignorance and isolation ed the story of "the Mongolian longer insurmountable barriers to Conquest, under Jenghis Khan, peace. whose 'forces rapidly con- Yet at best, the world as a whole quered all China, then turned is unified only by science but not westward and overwhelmed East- united in hearta and spirit. ern Europe. However, the Tartar | Individuals and nations appear to Government finally achieved an be hardened and maddened more extraordinary degree of orderly and more, with the idea of strug-
POLICY
Home Politicians View
in no way prejudice him in the THE SICK MIND
ready taken in the Court would
enquiries by the LG.P. He had decided to refer the matter to the IGP., and for this reason he ask- ed leave to withdraw the Cross- summonses.
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The applications by both parties were granted.
New Tendencies In Medicine
P. C. Robinson was alleged to have assaulted the two tokis on the morning of November 1. He sity of Cambridge, delivered the said that he entered the shop at 182, Queen's Road Central, and on receiving no attention, hit the
tokis.
Dr. W. Langdon Brown, Reglus Professor of Physic at the Univer
inaugural address to members and trends of Westminster Hospital, Medical School assembled at the Hospital, Sir Henry Hadow, chair- man of the School Committee, presided.
The defendant. however, stren- uously denied having assaulted any of the fokis. He said that on Dr. Langdon Brown sald that 'a' the day in question he Saw a
striking feature of twentieth-cent- crowd outside the complainants' shop and went in to enquire into
ury medicine had been a return to the cult of Aesculapius; clean- the matter. As soon as he enterliness, fresh air, suggestion, dream ed, the fokis began to laugh and tried to make a fool of him.
POPPY DAY FUND
Yesterday's Contributions.
Previously Acknowledged $1,650.9% Bank of China Swatow £28.10.0 E. D. Lawrence Esq.
Wuchow BFGreen Esq. Wu-
chow
rule, so that, for the first time mgling for wealth and power: All AFTER ATTENDING BANFF | The amount of $30.00, ac-
history, Europeans-mostly from that the leading nations have been Venice and Genoa-travelled at trying to do since 1918 is to change
Sir Christopher T. Needham, who over Europe and Asia. This led merely the conditions and institu-ecently returned from Banff, Can- the lecturer naturally to one of tions and not the heart and mindade, where the fifth blennial con- the most interesting parts of his by education and religion. The ference of the Institute of Pacific address the story of the travels present day outlook is in every Relations has been held, adressed of Marco Felo, who lived in China sense a conclusive proof of the in a public meeting last right arrang- for many years, served there as adequacy of merely material ford by the Withington pranch of
mulas..
a diplomat and even ruled "corne
of its cities.
Retur lagto, Europe, Marte Polo was captured by the Genoese inh naval conflict and was held as a prisoner of war. He told his fellow-prisoner wonderful (but truthful) tales of the East.
The lecturer next explained the evil influence which the rise of
Yours truly, J. D.B.
WINE POURED INTO
HARBOUR
the Turks and the capture of Smart Fine: On Boat Woman Constantinople had upon the for-
tunes of Venice, and how the dis- It was revealed in the course of covery of the New World shifted police court proceedings yesterday the centre of world trade to Spain that Chinese boat women who had and Portugal, Flanders and Eng-duttable wine in their possession land. Lots of trading supremacy had an easy means of getting rid by Venice was to some extent of it when Revenue Omers ap compensated by the influx” of. scholars from the Near East
the League of Nation in the Withington Town Hall, Manchester, His subject was #Problems of the Pacific and the Far East, but he explained that, he did not intend to do more than talk Informally about his experiences and his Impressions in this connection at Banff
After touching briefs, on many.
knowledged under the name of Mr. & Mrs. " Skinn, should have been acknowledged in the name of Miss E
kinner,
analysis, and psychological explan- ation, Until the War psychother- apy was looked upon as a crank: and studiously avoided by the. majority of the medical profession as savouring of quackery. *
Medicine the continued), was a department of biology, and unless they considered of patient as a whole, as a living organism reacting to change in élther the external" or internal environment they would miss an essential part of his case. Ordinary materialistic 10.00 medicine was apt to forget the og át
face that the patient's emotional 10.00 and mental outlook would inevit
ably inquence and be influenced by his disease; the psychotherapist was apt to forget that the patient had a body which might be su ering from -some physical distress To-day, there was still a craving for magical cures. It was by a combined attack on the physical Total.
and pschological side that medicine In the future would make advance. Further contributions will beEver since his student days, con- gratefully received by Mr. FG tinued Dr. Langdon Brown many Maunder, Secretary to Earl Haig's organic disasse had been robbed Fund, York Building Hong Kong of their worst manifestations, Yet Cheques should be made payable they were only just begining to to Thomson & Co. and crossed tackle seriously those maladies of
Poppy Day Fund.
the mind, which led to so much suffering and which, if they did not destroy the body, might yet destroy the soul;
$11,079.0
STONE KILLS A MAN
Quarrel In New Territories
Power of Suggestion,
of the toples which had come up for discussion at the conference, he said that many of the conflicts between nations all over the world might be described as commodity conflicts Argentina, the United States Australia, and Canada, for instance, were all big beat
A farmer in the New Territories producers and the object of each was lii, make as big a proft as it remonstrated with a man for sell could so far this had gibt been 105 vig, and was struck in the which led to the Revival of
possible, without conflict Lately chest with a stone for his pains Learning in Europe Fine arts charge of possession of dutiable the world had become tricreasingly especially vainting-flourished in
The matter, was forgotten until ini Venice.
liquor in respect of which they fationalistic and each county, the evening the farmer felt a former neglect of manipulative
euch fined $5・・ One ¿t tiệm, | had endeavoured to become, self-giddinous.come over him
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In 1797 Venice ceased to exist as an independent Republic, her! 120th Pose submitting to the all conquering Napoleon
peared. They simply poured the "evidence" Into the Harbour
Two widows were brought pe- fore Mr. Halfour yesterday on a
above
ther 50 sufficient This was
In the attiti
bottle alise
Insan eloquent conclud passage the lecturer
tribute to the glories.
sun-girt city of the
and
was.
and Queen of
ome.
of Beauty and
For
of History an brie "but
Jons, they
but self-
Ight he
mainim
It was not the function of the doctor to suggest fl-health. He laved that down as an axiom. No aspect of" a case, should be neg- lected Too often the success of unorthodox lines of treatment was contributed to by neglect on the part of the orthodox profession of some aspect, Bone-setting and. osteopathy owed their rise to their
tor urgery
died;
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