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CHINESE
CHARACTERS
Renarians Entertained By Prof. Reifler
SASSOON ROAD
TRAGEDY RECALLED
(Continued from. Pare 1)
FORGED NOTE CASE
British Soldiers And Boy Acquitted
Lau Kul, room boy at the Nan- Shamshuipo. 10+
Members of the Rotary Club were
Witness conducted I post- entertained at their weekly lun-
mortem examination at 12.30 p.m. king Barracks. chean yesterday to a talk entitled the same day and found multiple gether with Lance-Corporal Arthur Who Invented. The injuries including a fractured skull Goodge and Private Robert Run- Chinese Characters" by Prof. Erwin and a fractured pelvis. In his opindle, were acquitted by Mr. K Raider of the Chlastung Univer-ion the cause of death was cam- Keen. at the resumed hearing
The Man
sity, Shanghai, who also gave a few very interesting demonstra tions regarding the formation of the characters and their origin.
Major R. D. Walker, president of the Rotary Club, was in the chair and prior to calling upon, Prof. Reifer to give his address, wel- comed back Rotarian J. P. Sherry from home leave and announced that it was the birthday of Ro- tarian F. Stafford Smith, Both announcements were greeted with
applause, the latter one being also accorded musical honours in the forms of the well-known ditty, "Happy Birthday To You." Amongst the guests who attended were Messrs F. E. W. Lammert. K. S. Ho. H. B. L Dowbiggin and Dr. Wilkinson.
A UNIQUE FEAT Prof. Reifler sald coat "it is the unique feat of the Chinese genius that he has created an alphabet, which does not, like our alphabet, indicate merely the pronounciation of every word, but which consists of Ideological elements contained in all ideas. Such an alphabet we can best call a spiritual alphabet. All Chinese characters are cum- posed of letters of this spiritual alphabet, so that having learned this alphabet we are able to read and to understand all pictographs. No other race on earth has found such a wonderful solution of the problem of the written mission of thoughts as has the Chinese race.
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bination of these injuries, plus shock. Any external viclence such as crushing by any heavy weight would have caused these Injuries.
Lance-Sergeant A. J. Grossman, Police photographer, gave formal testimony of the taking of photos
at the scene of the accident.
DRIVER'S EVIDENCE
yesterday at the Kowloon Magis-
tracy, on the charge of possession, of a forged $50 nole of the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Mr. C. Y. Kwan appeared for the first defendant, while Mr. M. A. da Silva represented the second
defendant.
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Mr. K. Keen. after hearing evidence against third defendant, remarked that he saw no reason why Rundle should" be charged, for all he did was to ascertain the nature of the note, and hand it to
Mr. K. A. Bldmead. Assistant Superintendent of Police, was called. He said that the late Miss Tam was in, the car, driven by himself, at the time of the accl-the police station. dent. Mr. Bidmead said they were: going along Victoria Road from the Repulse Bay Lido. The time was about 11 p.m. Just as he turned into Sassoon Road a car. a private one, he thought.
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At Monday's hearing. evidence was given to show that on October 28. Goodge had a forged bank-note. in his possession. He had been passing it round to his room mates came, down þarid had attempted to find out Sassoon Road. He could not say whether or
not the note was whether its lights were dipped or forgery. not. His own lights were more
NO EVIDENCE than normally bright and very Mr. Kwan submitted that there centrally focussed and instead of was no evidence against his client dimining them in the normal man- Lau Kul. which would indicate ner he switched down to his park that he was at any time in posses- ing lights. His car was then going sion of a forged note. The only evidence connecting his client between ten and 15 miles an hour, so slowly that he changed into was contained in Goodge's state- second gear." The next thing he mert made at the police station. knew it was rolling sideways, But that statement was made in He himself WES the presence of Lau. Furthermore. downwards. somersaulting, having been thrown
the statement only mentioned a bootboy, and had not specified any out of the car,
When he picked himself up he.bootboy, and there was no indica- tion that defendant was the pár- heard Miss Tam calling to him.
Again, without cast- She had been sitting in the front ticular one, seat on the left side. Witnessing any suspicion on any one. he ran Up the hill, said there was a possibility that immediately
been after having passed through so thinking Miss Tam. had
Many hands, the note was not the He could thrown out higher up.
original note which Lâu had given not and her; so he went down
to Goodge... 1 again and looked Inside the car, which was upright. He then heard another faint call and realised that Miss am was underneath the car. It was quite impossible for him to get her out, because the
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INTEREST JUSTIFIED "Thus our interest in the man who invented the Chinese charac- ters is more than justified. Who was he, when and where did he live, and what did he think? To car was a very low one and had answer the last two questions ex-sunk into the earth, and the rear cellent means are at our disposal, | near side tyre had burst. namely, the Chinese characters he created. For, since they are all composed of a spiritual alphabet we have only to analyse them, to break them up into their constitu- ent elements and then rebuild the characters out of them; in order
KARATSU SRABIDE MIYANOSHITA TAKARAZUKA to know what he thought at the
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moment of their creation.
"The answer to our first ques- tion is, that the man, who invented the Canyese characters lived from at least 5000 B.C. down to our pre- sent day. And now we can pro- ceed to the question, who was he?. You might, of course, exclaim with astonishment: ***A Chinese, of
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He shouted for help and some coolies appeared and they again tried to lift, the car but failed. Eventually two of the coolles got two bars and levered up the car and he managed to get Miss Tam
out. Just then Mr. Heath, A..P..
came up in his car. Witness was carrying Miss Tam and row placed her inside Mr. Heath's car and took her to the Queen Mary Hospital. The roof of the car was closed at the time of the accident.
"NO IMPUTATION The Coroner: You will under- stand, Mr. Bldmead, that I mean no imputation whatever in asking The the following questions.
to us, probably to you too, and
counsel" Well, gentlemen," so na- tural and evident as this might seem to you, it has been disputed. cause of the acoldent is a mystery A German Professor at a com- mercial high-school in Tokyo has we all of course want to get things proved in detail that the inren- as clear as we can. What. horse- tors of these wonderful picto- | power was your car?
Witness: 20 horse-power! graphs have as naturady and evi- dently been the ancestors of the The Coroner. Would you call present Germans. From a French it a heavy one or a light one?-- and a Chinese side experiments Not unduly heavy. The gear ratio
was high..
have been made to prove that the Chinese came from Babylon. The
And the tyres?They were ra- possible relation between China ther on the large side than small and Egypt is being Investigated by
In reply to further questions many scholars of the West and witness said the tyre
that had East. There is even a possibility burst was about ten months old. that one day the Japanese will
They were all in good condition. claim authorship of
the Chinese He did not examine this tyre after characters!
the accident. He could give no theory as to the causė of the Permit me now, gentlemen, to Jump with a powerful leap across ever, that his parking lights did accident. It was possible, how-
this whole heap of theories. dif- ficult to prove, and allow me to
not give enough light and be ms- ed the curve of the road at that. put another very plausible ques-
with tion enabling us to produce quite
point. Witness coincluded
a simple answer to the problem the formal evidence of the identi-
who the character-inventor · was. That is the question: "What did he look like," May I recall, here
to your memory his picture, I
fication of the body of Miss Tam at the Queen Mary Hospital on November 1_________
CRIES OF DISTRESS
showed you in my last lecture; Mr. H. W. E. Heath, Assistant from which it is quite clear and Superintendent of Police, said he evident, that the inventor of the
was going along Victoria Road Chinese characters must have been
from the Lido on the night of a Chinese, a fact, which all of you
October 30. He could not say ex- already knew before.
actly what the time was but he bad got into his car in Pedder Street immediately after the con- clusion of the 7.15 p.m. cinema performance, driven to the Lido.. had dinner, there, and had left some ten or fifteen minutes after. it was probably. 11.30 pm, or 50, Mr. Bidmend and Miss Tam, so
Sassoon Road he heard cries of On the hill before he reached
a foreign voice." He
LOCAL ESTATE
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Ngan Shing Fat, clerk, late No. 124 Canton Road, who died at St. Paul's Hospital. Causeway Bay, on November 25, 1936; left`local· estate sworn
under $12,700. A
distress in
petition by Ngan Shing Kwan, turned into Bassoon Road, but did merchant, of No. 84 Kennedy Rd., not see anyone so reversed back for grant of probate of the will of into Victoria Road, turned left deceased for the use and benefit into Sassoon Road ageth, and when he reached the function of Sassoon. Road and Victoria Road (Continued on Back Page)
of Hing Chan and Hing Chau has been granted by the Supreme
Court.
Mr. Silva submitted that al- though Goodge had possession of the alleged forged note, there was no proof to show that his client had the unlawful intention to pass It to anyone' he only attempted to find out the true source of the note. There was no Ordinance which stated that any one would be guilty simply because he was in possession of a forged note.
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FOUNTAIN PEN THEFT
Four months hard labour was imposed on Loo Hol, 28: unem- ployed, when he appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday
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