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learning and culture can play, in Chinh" But, at most, it can only be a part not the whole. In
DAY BY DAY.
MORALS AND MANNERS MUST BE
The P. and O...s. Khyber, which left Singapore at 4 pm. yesterday, is due here at 4 pm on Saturday.
stressing that fact." Mr. Hornell soWN LIKE SPRING WHEAT. J. W. uttered a truism when he assert-Cambier. - ed that education which is not
The P. and O. as Mantua, from based on the traditions, and cul-Hongkong, arrived at London on
the 13th January at 7 am.. ture of the race is, for that race, no education at all. The craving shown by so many young Chinese for education based on Western ideals, with little or no regard for the heritage handed down to them by their ancestors, is one of the most disconcerting signa of the times. And it is as apparent in Hongkong as it is in any other Eastern centre where the Asiatic peoples come into contact with Occidental influences to any con- siderable extent.
new
DEATH OF DR. LOVETT CUMMING.
FORMERLY PRACTISED IN HONGKONG.
The Very Idea!
A man with an insatiable thirst went to consult a specialist, who asked him what the symptoms were.
Many. Hongkong residents will hear with intense regret of the "I can't drink enough," said the death of Dr. H. Lovett Cumming, patient."In one day I can man- the well-known medical practi-age with ease a dozen cocktails tioner, which occurred in Shang-and thirty double whiskies. It doesn't seem to do me the alightest hai on Friday last.
harm, but I'm worried about it. Can you give me anything for it?"
Dr. Lovett Cumming had only Just returned to Shanghai from a
Mr. H. W Looker (formerly of Hongkong) voted for the Prayer Book in the House of Com-visit Home, but unfortunately soon after arriving ho developed mon's division last month...
pneumonia, and his condition be came serious. In spite of all that could be done, death supervened.
Foreign, warships in harbour this morning werd the Italian S. Gubuto, the French Vigilante and the Portuguese Pero de Alenquer.
On his way through, about
"Well," said the specialist, sadly. "I'm afraid I've only got my practice and a couple of thou- sand."
"I know it is a platitude," sho
young chandelier.
Hfé." (From a
!
weck or so ago,Dr. and Mrs. Cum-said, "but Charlie is literally the ming spent a brief time in Honglight of my.
serial,) In addition to the Interport foot-kang and renewed acquaintance Charlie is my darling, the ball teams, passengers who left by with many of their friends. It the President Grant to-day includ
was in 1918 that Dr. Cumming, ed Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Grantham, first came to the Far East, joining Mr G. P. Lammert and Mr. L. M.
the Hongkong firm of Drs. Har- ston, Marriott and Black, but a S. Lloyd.
little more than a year later he went to Shanghal and set up his own practice, attaining much po- pularity and being regarded as a man of much ability. The North China Daily News, in recording his death, says:
A remarkable bird is the
Bummock, It sits all day long on a
hummock,
And picks out the eyes
Of the web-footed flies. That settle in clouds on its
stomach."
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Another British cow has achiev Mrs. Woodhouse, of Harrogate, Although a resident of Shanged the distinction of yielding celebrated her 101st birthday on hai for a comparatively few years, more than 3,000 gallons of milk Dec. 19, and, judging by her pic-Dr. Lovett Cumming bad had a in a year. Only sight cows in ture in the Daily Express, looks great experience in the East. Britain can do this. both hale and hearty. Her For some time he was at Singa- The last cow who has so nobly. grandson is Dr. Duppuy, the Bishop pore, and there, so far as we are able to state, did important work of Hongkong.
in connexion with researches into the origin and treatment
Of course, the paint cannot be overlooked that, the Chinese, like
Although there has been) no the rest of us, live in a workaday world, and that economie consi- official announcement from Canton derations play their part in in-with respect to martial law being annulled, vessels of the river sor- fluencing young men and women vices are now passing the ports, when setting out on fc. That, up and down, during dark hours. in part, explains this tendoney towards a yearning for education on Western lines by so many Chinese students. Mr. Hornell no doubt had this point in mind when
added to the laurels of her sex and species is Sudbourne Dairy- he told the students whom he
maid 11. She is a British Fri- The entire process of optical glass was addressing that if they want-
of sian, and is owned. by Mr. John ed money and comfort, they had manufacturing and final finishing malaria. Coming to Shanghai be Bromet. She gave
her great better become merchants. Though, process, as used in their own focal soon became one of the best known yield at Golf Links Farm, Tadeas- workshop, is interestingly portray-medical men, and took an active tei and is in Mr. Bromet's Golf BATHURST-GIBB-On Novem- | incidentally, mapy merchanted by means of coloured figures, etc, part in the life of the community, herd which recently won the cup. ber 30th, 1927, at All Saints' nowadays get neither the one or in the windows of Messrs. Lazarus. He served on the Committee of St for the highest herd average in
the local opticians.
Andrew's Society, where he was a Yorkshire. Church, Maidstone, Edgar,
spécially valued member, and, had Sudbourne Dairymaid II was youngest son of Capt. and the other. But there is such a
A Chinese woman, arrested and been active in many other direc-born on March 14, 1920, and has Mrs. H. Bathurst, late of thing as education for "educa- China, ta Betty Deborah
Station as a mendicant, attempted last year."
yield in gallons" is 10,006. Her to commit suicide yesterday by
The late Dr. Henry Lovett Cum-present weight is 1 hundred strangling herself with part of her ming was born in 1878 in Glasgow, weights, and as she has yielded clothing. She was removed to the
being à son of the late Rev. forty-four tons of milk, she has Governemnt Civil Hospital..
George Watson Cumming. He produced sixty-three times her
educated at Merchiston own weigh). was Castle School and George Wat- son's College, Edinburgh, as well
MARRIAGE.
L
Blount, second daughter oftion's suke-for the real uplift of detained at the Central Police tions until his departure for Home calved five times. Her total milk
stone.
Dr. and Mrs. J. Aldington mankind and the rendering of the Gibb, of College Road, Muid very highest, service of which mun ia capable: service to others. If the Chinese student can be im-
Miss Maude Royden, the prea buted with that ideal, even though he falls short of full attainment,cher, who left England on Dec. 28 on a world tour, including China
The
Witness at Highgate, of man
Hongkong Telegraph. he will achieve something more and Japan, was at the Lyceum as the Edinburgh and London found helplessly drunk in the
..
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.
·EAST AND WEST.
Once again, Mr. W. W. Hornell delivered a noteworthy utterance
on educational, matters when he
than personal gain, In that en-Club, on Dec. 16, entertained to luncheon by 21 societies affiliated deavour, he can gain inspiration
to the British Commonweath from the West, but his contribu- Lengue. tion to his country's future will in great measure be influenced by the extent to which he reacts to the traditions of his own race.
Mr. Frank W. Vaille, former Director General of Posts at Manila, died at Honolulu on the 10th inst. from mataral causes, at the age of 73. Mr. Vaille was with the United States railway mail ser- vice for 51 years. He graduated from Yalo in 1876, Two children survive him.
The following ships were expect with Hongkong to-day: Empress
ha, Seistan, Nellore, Pres. Grant,
Tai Ping. Pres. Monroe, Hozan Maru, Kingyuan, Socchow, Tonkin, Haihong, Kitano Maru, Kaying, Takliwa, Awa Maru, Durban Mart, M. V. Remo and Takada.
The Chinese Influx.. The figures officially issued yes- addressed "the scholars of the terday showing the Colony's popula-ed to be in wireless communication Middle Vernacular School yester Lion to have increased by nearly one day The burden of his oration hundred thousand- during 1927 of Canada, Mishima Maru, Devan was "an insistence on the neces--by 96,496, to be precise provide sity for preserving what is best interesting reading. That is only in Chinese culture, with a special the bare truth, though we suppose plea to Chinese students not to a parallel in any other part of the grow up in ignorance" of the globe would be heralded as some- bases on which that culture resta,thing sensational or alarming ac- He urged a true blending of cording to the ability of the com- Occidental and Oriental learning,munity concerned to cope with such a remarkable influx. Hongkong's believing that, thereby, coming
proximity to Kwangtung provides generations of the Chinese people
of widespread currency.
H.,
Universites. During the war, he read. He is a highly respectable. served for a year in the R.A.M.C.man,
Dalston landlord, of his lodger: and during 1917 and 1918 was attached to the Pensions Medical She shares her tongue between Board. His medical degrees were her husband and me,
A man accused of drunkenness London: dey, hon. M.D., Ch. B.,
at the Thames court was asked Edin. D.P.H., D.T.M. and
he had any money. Camb. He was a keen Freemason, whether holding high office under the Seot- "Yes," was his reply. "I borrow."
ed 10s, this morning for my fine." tish Constitution.
Much, sympathy will be felt for The magistrate: We will give you the widow in her sudden bereave-48. change out of it. ment.
AFTER FOURTEEN
YEARS.
BANISHEE SENTENCED ON RETURN.
Wong Chi was charged with dis obeying an order of banishment, before. Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Polfee Court this morning, and was sentenced to six months'
Captain David Clark, whose death has occurred at Edinburgh, was marine auperintendent of the Ben Line and joined the company in hard labour. 1866 He became a shipmaster The defendant's record, produc- about 1898, and in this capacity ed by Sub-Inspector Vincent, show- salled on the company's Easterned that he was given 42 days in
Judge Cluer," at Shoreditch County Court: Lithuanian is the most troublesome language in the world to learn.
Judge Bairstow, at Clerkenwell If people are having luxuries like music lessons for their children, you must not think they can al- ways pay for butcher's meat for the children.
•
A cynic recently said of his wife, "At the end of the evening she was so tired she could hardly keep Her mouth open."
ance zone.
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meang
An anachronism is a thing a man puts in writing in the past before it has taken place in the future.
The cold at the North Pole is so towns there are not inhabited. great that the
Coleridge was a retired mariner who took to verse.
in
More School howlers! Most of Shakespeare's plays were terrible tragedies.
E. G. means egg sample. Ambiguity means telling the will best be able to serve their the reason for the different, and, trade routes until he suceceded Cap-1912 for stealing, and was banish-truth when you don't mean to."
Liberty of conscience for that matter the indifferent, attain John Potter about 20 years ed for a term of 20 years. Re- country and at the same time
titude. We have learned to expect Bge as marine superintendent,
turning in 1918, he was sent to doing wrong and not worrying" make their rightful contribution considerable fluctuation coincident
This morning's Harbour Office prison for six months, and another about it afterwards.
The whole world, except the to needs of the world in general. with peace and orderliness in the
neighbouring province of China, or reports gave 11 arrivals and 12 order was made for his expulsionUnited States, lies in the temper- His tribute to the part which the otherwise, and though it might be departures, with British holding after his sentence was served.
an His Worship enquired how the scholar has played in the cause of remarked that the Colony is thor- top place. Tonnage showed world civilisation is one deserving oughly amiable towards its fair-were senatal is low, hough freights police were again enabled to
weather visitors, we can be assured, carried three of the four best car of so many years,
generally low, British vessels identify the man after the lapse if assurance is necessary, that the
goes for the day, All ships car- We have heard a great deal in Pendulum will swing the other way ried cargo and there remained in i
A police officer replied that the when General Li Chai-sum's efforts recent years of the clash of East- towards rehabilitation begin to bear harbour at 9 am. this morning 66 man was arrested on information
vessels of which 20 were British.
received. The December "Red" up- fruit.
Defendant said he had under ern and Western ideals in China,
risings in Canton and the Swatow to which much of the current district account for no fewer than
After having been in use for the stood that the deportation order past 59 years, the seal and flag now was only for ten years.
Mrs. G. Jackson Coleman, unrest in the Treaty Ports in par- 21,666 of the new residents, and
serving as the official insignia of no-one supposes that permanent re-
Asked why he had chosen to London woman, whose marriage ticular is due. One of the out-sidence is contemplated by more probably will be "crapped" in the return after being away for more service was
the Shanghai Municipal Council,
carried out growths of that circumstance has than a relatively trifling minority near future to yield to a more up than 14 years, defendant said that Esperanto, speaks eleven langu been the engendering, amongst When word comes that comparative to-date design. This change will was not his intention. He had ages fluently. Mrs. Coleman, whe safety rules once more, thousands take place provided that one out of thought of staying away for good, is Hungarian by birth, learned many Chinese, of a feeling of un- will flock back to their normal certainty regarding the true path homes displaying an anxiety equally the numerous designs which are and had taken up farming work in Spanish, her eleventh language, to be followed. There is a large keen as that which prompted them being submitted in a competition the country, but was forced by the in a few weeks while travelling
announced by the Council, can be prevalence of banditry to return. to take refuge under "Imperialis chosen as satisfactory. and growing section of the tic" rule. Possibly some of them, younger generation which, per on their return, will talk loudly of the revision of the. "unequal ceiving the chaotie state of China,
treaties," and 6 British encroach- is yearning to play a part in its ment on their territory, leaving us regeneration, but is perplexed by to wonder if the Chinese are blessed Paris the confusion which this conflict with a sense of humour. It is evid-New York
ent, however, that good common- Brussels of idenls has produced. Mr. sense possesses a quicker appeal to Geneva Hornell put it aptly when he de- the Chinese mind than the soundest Amsterdam clared that "amid an amazing logic. But that is. by the way. It Milan would be interesting to know what Berlin ancestral precepts, Mr. A. J. Cook and others of his Stockholm welter of strange Occidental theories and kidney, who continually prate about Copenhagen
Oslo primitive pasalons, the Chinese British Imperialism and suffer, we
Vienna imagine, from hoarse throats people are stumbling blindly through constantly. repeating Helsingfors
Prague along an elusive track, the end "Hands Off China," would say in
Madrid of which is unknown." And the reply to a presentation of these an striking figures, which are a, suba- Athens danger of the situation is that, in tantial demonstration in themselves Bucharest of the fact that but presence in Rio... aceking to readjust themselves to
China is not entirely reserted It Buenos Aires modern eoncepts, the risingle doubtful, however, whether any Bombay generation of Chinese may grasp healthy corrective could be applied Shanghai at the shadow and drop the bone. to the views of those who so per- Hongkong sistently refuse to face facts, but Yokohama Not that we have any doubts.com-
the majority of the Chinere at least Silver (spot) cerning the part which Western are not quite so foolish."
Silvor (forward)
EXCHANGE RATES.
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in tramcars.
Socialist voters in the Nör NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.thampton by election will have the unusual privilege of support ing a man who once suggested that Mr. Winston Churchill. should be hanged from a lamp- post.dk
.....124 4.87 17/32
.84.09 The Colony's health return for 20.31 last week shows twelve cases of 12.00% notillable disease, with five deaths, as well as three cases of influenza, all fatal.
TWELVE CASES LAST WEEK.
-32.20 20.47 18.19
He is Mr. Cecil L'Etrange Malone, and his desperate remedy was mentioned during an Albert Hall speech in 1920-n speech for which he suffered imprisonment."
He was released on parole-an :
18.20 Thero were four cases of 18.33 diphtheria (one British and the extremely rare procedure to at- .34.02
rest Chinese), of which one was tend his mother's funeral 1932 fatal; four of typhoid fever (one January 1921.
.18414
1.29.44
387
2.13/32 with two deaths; two of puerperal
Portuguese and three Chinese),
fover (Indian and Chinese), one
M. Lofford of Mesars. Madier and. 700 fatal; one fatal Chinese occur- Cie. was elected a French member .5,16/18 rence of cerebro-spinal fever; and and Mr. H. S. Kavarana a Foreign 47:13/18 one non-fatal Chinese case of member of the French Municipal 1/6.1/16 small-pox. The influenza cases. Council, Shameen, at an election
.2/7/ were all Chinese.
2/0
1/11.8/82 The return for yesterday shows 20% two cases of diphtheria, ona Portu- 203/10 guese and the other Chinese.
at the French Consulate on Satur- day. Mr. Kavarena has been a member of the French Municipal Council for 25 years.