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MODERN ANGLO-AMERICÁN
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CHINESE GRAPHIC ART
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WHERE SHALL THEY SLEEP?
THE
HE RENTS situation in the Colony, judging by reports from all quarters, has grown more acute since the publication of the report of the Rents Com- mission several weeks ago.
Present indications are that unless action is taken by the Government some tenants will scon find themselves without home.
a
* With the
uí renewed infux refugees from Amoy the demand for houses or Bats has become
some cases
The engagement is announced of even greater and in
A.P.S. Arthur George Groves, of local residents have been given the Hong Kong Police. Yau- notice to quit in order that the mati, to Kathleen, only daugh-in-coming
refugees.
ter of Capt. H. Olsen, of Bang-whom. incidentally. kok, Bangkok and Shanghai selves in papers please copy)."
BIRTH
many
of
What Our
Readers Say
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CHINESE NOT VINDICTIVE
[To the Editor, "The Hong Kont Dally Press"]
Sir: I have read with the keen- est intarest of the raid mace an Japop by the. Chinese Air Force. As far back as August last, I pre- dicted that, should the Japanese airmen not desist from their bar barle methods of bombing defence Less
Chinese cities are caustos death and injury to thousanda ef Innocent non-combatants, China would be compelled to retallate. Japanese and many of my own countrymen
and scoffed at this stated that China had no planes or flers capable of making a fight to Japan and back. My answer was "Wait and see.".
The present visit by our planes to the Land of the Rising (Set ting?) Sun proves that our planes can make the fight and that we have in our air force a bunch of dare-dévil fiers willing to risk their lives for their country, to prove that such fights could be made.
DEFENDED CITY -
Osaka is a defended city, the in- dustrial, economical and financial heart of Japan and was, therefore, open to a bombing attack by the Chinese planes. But did the Chin- ese bomb the place? No. Instead, they "simply dropped leaflets con- taining propaganda, telling the Japanese people the real situation, of which they have been kept in etter ignorance,
EDITORIAL
TRAGIC DEATH | WEDDING BELLS OF DOCKYARD POLICE OFFICER
"WILL "DISCLOSED IN ENVELOPE
False Evidence
Allegation
A verdict of suicide while of un. sound mind was returned by the Jury comprised of Mesura. J. W. Plats (foreman), A. A. 5, Remedios and Lai Chick-sang, at the Central Police Court yesterday when an in- quiry was held into the circum- stances Surrounding the death of Ernest Harold Inchcombe, of the Royal Naval Dockyard Polfen, who was found dead with a gunshot wound in his head on April 13, last, Medical evidence was given by Dr. R. 8. Begbie, after which Walter Thomas
Balley, of the
Naval Dockyard Police, sald that he was on the second night shift, same time as the deceased, on the night in question. Deceased was the sergeant in charge at the time. He last saw deceased about 5.43 a.m. and about the same time he heard two cracking noises but' pald no attention, thinking they came from the road.
He went on with his duty and be came across deceased coming out of the search room and going into his own room. Witness kald he thought something was amiss
and followed deceased. He theni saw the deceased point a revolver at his own head. Witness shouted to him to stop but was too late. deceased firing two shots before falling down.
As our planes were actually over a defended enemy position, we would easily have bombed the place but we did not wish to resort
THREE LETTERS to the same inhuman and barbaric
Detective Inspector W. N. Darkin tactics as those used by the Japan- was the next witness. He sald ese. We did not wish to lose world that on receipt of a report he pro- sympathy and support by horrify-ceeded to the Naval Yard and saw ing our friends.
deceased's body, in a sitting posi- We resorted to a peaceful step tian. He went through deceased's which cannot but win the admira- | pockets and in one of them found tion of the entire universe. We an envelope on which was written wanted to teach the Japanese that "will-E. H. Inchcombe. we are human their barbarie met- hods are unavalling and show to-to them and the world that we can make fights to Japan and can. if necessary, bomb the enemy. Nevertheless, we consider it even more important that we should cause no harm to those innocent people who are not responsible for the present unwarranted invasior. of China.
WALTER HANMING CHEN
NEW BATHING CLUB
The formal opening of the Club- house of the Guru Nanak, Bathing Club, Kennedy Town, will be per formed by the President, Mr. Badan Singh, today at 5 p.m.
them-flats or premises at rock-bottom And
figures just in order to meet the a position to pay a much higher rental. may be ac- taxes, etc.. winout navix to dig.
further into their capital, commodated,,;
The situation. has become sucir BROWN-On May 15, 1938, at the that the refugees have taken the of local residents who Country Hospital, Shanghai, to places
the role of Mr. and Mrs. Irving 8. Brown, find themselves in
refugees! a son, Robert-Cushman.
WHILE the authorities remain content that the time has not yet come for any action be taken, the evil will go" from bad to worse.
DEATH
MINSKY-On May 12, 1938, at the Shanghai General Hospital, Mrs. Rose Minsky, aged 53 years, the dearly-beloved wife of Mr. Michael Minsky, of Tsingtao, and mother of Mrs. Elizabeth Jeppesen, of Shang- hal.
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ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY'S
GOLD MEDAL
to
that It will be remembered
World War shortly after the
rent scandal the attained such pro- portions that the Government 53.W
RENTS ORDINANCE, OF 1922
Another envelope was addressed
the Commodore's Secretary.
HM. Dockyard, while a third letter was not addressed.
After Commander E. V. Rees. Commander of HM. Dockyard, had given evidence
in respect of a charge which Was preferred against the deceased in the Dock- yard, the jury returned the verdict mentioned above..
leave
in
Quiet Ceremony At Cathedral
EVERETT TURNER
The Dean, Very Rev... J. L WI- son, officiated at a quiet wedding in the Lady Chapel St. John's Cathedral yesterday when Miss Mary Frances Turner became the bride ni Mr. Leonard Everett.
The bride is the niece, of the Misses Ethei and Alice Allen, of the old Shanghal family of Dr. Young Allen.
The bridegroom is connected with the General Electric Co. of China Ltd., and is the elder "son of Mrs. Everett, and the late Mr. Leonard Everett, of Shanghai. The bride and room went school together.
to
The matron of honour W15 M. 8. D Begg. of Hong Kong, and the best man was Mr. Paul, Dietz. Mr. O. Cueves gave the bride away.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett left-yes- terday evening on the Empress of Japan for a short honeymoon in Manila. They expect to return here on the same steamer, and will make their home In the Colony.
WEDDINGS AT REGISTRY
Dr. Chan Fook, M.B., B.S. and Miss Lliy Wong, daughter of Mr. wong Wang-ip. retired merchant. were married at the Registry.
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1938.
Mr. Leonard Everett; of the General Electric Company of China. and his bride, formerly Miss Mary Frances Turner, photographed after their wedding at St. John's Cathedral yesterday, at which the Dean, Very Rev. J. L. Wilson, officlated. (Photo, A.C.P.).
Supreme Court, yesterday. The MR. E. COCK ON
witnesses were Mrs. Ju Yuen-fan fan and Mr. Wong Shul-lau.
In another ceremony Miss Jessie Loh
became the bride of Mr. Chong Thean-yong. foreign cor- respondent of the Hankow Foreign Trade Office. The witnesses were Mrs. Ling Hung-fu and Mr. Konk Siew-tong.
it
Mr. W. Aneurin Jones Deputy Registrar of Marriages, officiated
In both cases.
ANNOUNCEMENT
VOLUNTEERING
IN
COLONY
Not Appreciated As
It Ought To Be.
MUSIC IN THE FACTORY
Jazz Increases Output
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A Wembley firm which recently installed a wireless set in its fac- Mr. E. Cock, M.B.E., who was one tory has noticed that the effect of of the official guests at the Hong music on the girl workers has been Kong Volunteer Defence Corps an-to Increase production « by more The forthcoming marriage is nual dinner last night, said, in the than 10 per cent. The masie; how- announced between Mr. Hall Tuck-course of a brief speech, that he ever, was not appreciated by the on, merchant, of No. 210 La Chr did not think that the importance male staff of the office. Kok Road first floor and Miss Sc of volunteering was appreciated, as The effects of music on general Woon-ying, of No. 130 Lai Chi Kek it ought to be, by the public gen-work appear, indeed, to vary con-
erally.
siderably. There is no guarantee Road. first floor.
There are in the Colony many that one type of music will be ac- men who would, in an emergency. ceptable to all spring to arms," added Mr. Cock. An investigator of the National "The importance, therefore, to Institute of Industrial Psychology Increase recruitment is obvious. visited a laundry in Scotland where What is being done?" asked the shirts and collars were being speaker. "To encourage men to treated with amazing expedition to become or remain volunteers, the martial music. These workers Government free them from cer- would not have jazz at any price. tain other public duties, but I re- and their output is now described gard this kind of encouragement as astonishing. even alarming." as rather negative in type.
Ambulance Flag Day Results
The nett sum realised by the St. Commander Rees sald he fined the deceased $10 and asked him to John Ambulance Brigade from the sale of tags, flowers and badges the service. Deceased
on May 7 and paid into the bank, coins totalled is $8.525.87. $130.15.
his will, said that the four wit- nesses against him in the Dockyard charge, had given false evidence.
EXHIBITION OF MODERN CHINESE ART
Those were the days when Hong At French Convent
Kong was in.
EFFECTS OF DEPRESSION
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Next Week
the depths of the economic depres- alon, "which swept the world with On May 24, 23 and 26. an ex- such devastating hibition of Chinese paintings will effects, but it is fairly safe to say be held at the French Convent that no landlord can come forward Chinese Middle School, Caroline and truthfully state that even in Road, Causeway Bay. These paint- those very bad times the demands 'ings, which number a hundred, are for reductions in rent were any the work of Miss Yeung So-iing of where near the increases (pro- the above school, where she is a are teacher of Chinese literature and portionately speaking)tuat
some ct Chinese painting. now being demanded o these same tenants.
is
The paintings in modern, Chin- Even in New Kowloon and theese, include scrolls and scapes, At to Introduce New Territories, where flats and studies in flowers, birds, etc. Many the measure known as the Rents houses are mostly of the Chinese of them have been exhibited in ab
type' and the tenants
mustly International Exhibition in Bel Ordinance of 1922.
Under this ordinance the land-working people or very moderate gium, also in Nanking, Canton and means, rents are being raised.. elsewhere in China. This exhibi- lord was stopped. despite any The presentation of the Royal agreement oral or written, from Yet despite it all the Government tion should prove of great interesi
satisfied merely to hold a to
those interested in modern Chinese. Art Asiatic Society's Gold Medal to recovering any rent other than Professor R. A. Nicholson, Litt.D., the standard rent: that is a rent watching brief, as it were!
Miss Young is not only a painter informed that an influential of high merit but also a scholar F.B.A.. took place at the annualed by the Government as a WE HAVE been authoritatively general meeting of the society fair rent, in respect of domestic
body has petitioned the Govern and professor of distinction. She ment to take the necessary action is a Catholic and wishes to devote the proceeds of this exhibition. to protect the tenants in general.
Let it not be taken for granted. one half to Catholic charities, and however, that every landlord in the other half to the Chinese Gov-
of the due to the present war. vantage
Dut situation" to
Miss Yeung is a pupil of Mr. Ko up the rents. There Kim-too, and Mr. Pau Shiu-yau, are many who whose
are well-known not throughout China and so her work
recently.
tenements.
And also, notwithstanding any The council of the Royal Asiatic Society has conferred honorary notice to quit, or any agreement oral or written, the landlord could membership on Professor Arthur Christensen, Professor of Iranian not get a domestic tenement back
Bad
ART OF ISLAND PARADISE
Balinese Pictures In London
The beauty of the island of Bali --In the Duch East Indies-and of its natives, is one of the best- established traveller's taleà, The show of modern" Balinese art at the Calmann Gallery. St. James's- place,
well supports the legend that a wisp of the Golden Age yet survives in the modern world, writes a Home reporter.
"If something more positive, if
TWO HOURS A DAY BUD.C real benet or protection Their daily dose of martial mu- could be secured for you, we would sic is an hour la the morning and be rendering back in a more prác an hour in the afternoon, and so tical way some better recognition successful has been the prescrip- or your services," said Mr. Cock.tion that other Scottish firms are "This may be a way in which the experimenting on similar lines. Advisory Board might extend its On the other hand equally ex- function with advantage."
cellent results have been found in In conclusion, Mr. Cock paid the establishment of a Shefeld warm tribute to the work done by arm of pea packers where the.. Col. R. C. B. Anderson, comman girls, by unanimous choice, are re- dant of the Carps.
SMALL-POX IN CANTON
Quarantine
been.
galed with jazz and other forms of dance music,
Then there is the experience. of & motor manufacturing company which has loud-speakers "in the workshops. Programmes of
onc
hour are given in the mornings restrictions have and afternoons and many of the imposed against arrivals Workers bring their own graZIO- trem Canton on account of small phorie records to be played. Dance tunes are the most popular, follow- ed by marches with a definite the with rhythm harmonising noises of the workshops.
COLONY HEALTH
This werk, with its suggestion of exotic abundance and delight. pox. is the direct projection of age-
tradition. The long
Balinese
10 PER CENT. INCREASE have only lately started painting
Five cases of small-pox (one im- other than temple frescoes. but
General results indicate that in there is none of the European In ported), four of diphtheria, three fluence that has made a decadent each of measles (ore imported) repetition work the stimulus of
art and cerebro-spinal fever, two of
muste means an increase in out- hybrid of so much Asiatic
dysentery and one of enteric fever put of as much as 10 per cent.. today.
Yet our mediaeval illuminators were notified to the local Health and that its introduction has such provide an approach to these forest authorities on Thursday. landscapes and folk-tale action pictures.
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NEW STAMPS OF KING GEORGE VI
an effect on fatigue and boredom that even the sickness rate falls.
The Industrial Health Research There is a reminder of the monks'
Board and that it is dangerous to generalise in the "music and work” bestiaries in "Hunting the Tiger" and "Ardjuno Fighting Shiwa,"
question, and that while on broad Postage stamps of the new issue principles the introduction of musie with their clear outline, crowded detail and intricate rhythmic B.M. King George VI in the into industry is to be welcomed design. And the Eastern artists' denominations 1 cent, 5 cents: 2 each case should have separate use of water-colour mixed with dollars will be put on sale as from consideration before action is
Philology at the University of unless the tenint failed to pay the Colony is taking unfair ad-ernment for relief of the distress / flah-glue gives a related effect of May 24 (Tuesday), '
and
MANY
FAIR
the standard rent or broke some Copenhagen,
on Professor Jean Przylusk), Professor of Indo- of the terms of his tenancy.
Paragraph E of this ordinance Chinese History and Philology at the
Could LANDLORDS stated that the landlord College de France, in recognition
cbtain an order or judgment for eminent of their
services to
such premises were' reasonably re-
have either
have done so in such a plight man-
names
taken
In order to assist dealers and Opinions expressed by the work- others who require considerable ers themselves are illuminating.. quantities of these stamps for Music makes you work better be- "Arst day covers," auppiles in com cause you talk less," said one giri. plete sheets of 120 stamps only will "If on a bad job, music helps you be available at the Chief Accoun- to forget, and it stops you grum-
medium.
Above all, there is sympathy of feeling. Both kinds of work spring, from an undimmed vision of riature and an acute serse of its mystery.
The jungle-curtain of "Tentri," Iranian Sanskrit studies respec. the recovery of his premises if increased their rents at all or should have an added interest.
The scrolls done by Miss Yeung the fairy-tale grotesque of "Hana- quired by the lessor for occupation 1er as not to cause hardship to show a vitality and power that are man," and the limpid idyll of "Giri, f tant's Omce. 1st floor, Post Office bling. is another view.
rare in the works of a feminine Bathing" or "On the Beach, are artist:
gems of evocation in spirit and form. They bring their scenes like B physical presence to the senses. and hint at a strangeness that still defies reason behind the background
tively.
WOUNDING CHARGE
as a residence for himself or for his family providing the Court was Wong Yat-yam, 35: appeared satisfied that alternative accom- before Mr. H R Butters at the modation, reasonably equivalent Central Court yesterday, charged as regards rent and suitability in with inflicting grevious body. In all respects, was available. juries on Blu Fong-lam,
UNFORTUNATELY the ordinance Detective. Bub-Inspector Darkin went out of force in June 30. apolled for a week's remand, as 1924 Bince that date there have the injured man was still in been times when landlords in hospital
general were only too happy to let
the tenants concerned.
These landlords may be sure that if a full inquiry was held into the situation their tenants would be only too glad to coine forward and offer evidence on their behalf in order that their interests might be protected.
The tenants are not seeking any favours. they want only Justice and a roof over their hears
ROCKS FOR WARRIORS
Nanchang, May 20. The Anti-Japanese League in
An Omelal Dinner will be given Nanchang today forwarded 28,800 pairs of cotton socks to the soldiers at Government House of Thurs- at, the front (Central News), day, May 26, at 8.15 p.m.
on Monday, May 12, Building, from 4.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. The stamps will not be valid for postage until May 24,
Dr. C. B. Myers; Principal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, agrees that the effect of muste on once staffs is likely to be more of a nuisance than a blessing, and that the more con- His Excellency the Governor and centrated the mental "work" the Lady Northcote will attend Divine greater nuisance it may become. Service at St. John's Cathedral In industry, in his view, it is best
will read the Lessons,
day and not continuously tomorrow at 11 am. His Excellency employed at certain hours of the