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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1928.
PROPAGANDA AS WAR
FEATURE.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN NATIONALIST CAMP,
Shanghai, Apr. 4. Included in the usual list of
Marshal Yen Shi-shan has as- casus before Mr. Justice. Wood in
Arnold Schonberg, the ultraumed the post of Chairman of the ENQUIRY CONCLUDES. the Summary Court this morning
were two in which the defendants modern composer, has made a Shansi Government,
The political department of the Observer Publishing appearance in London, where he The Marine Court of Enquiry were the into the circumstances of the cof-Conspany and others. In one case conducted at the Queen's Hall. In Nanking Government has it is lision between the s.8. Taming and the plaintiffs were the Local Print- commenting upon him, Musical stated, printed over 200,000 copies the Standard Oil tow Kotonah and ing Press, claiming $217.40, and in Opinion says that not even Wagner of pictures of Marshal Chiang Kal- had such obstacles to surmount as shek and of the late Dr. Sun Yat Vermont, was concluded this morn- the other the Asiatic Printing fell to Schonberg. "Yet there lasen for distribution at the front as ing. The finding is to be deliveredPress, claiming $223,
something which seems to surround propaganda in the coming drive this afternoon.
In, the former case, Mr. W. D. his personality, protecting him, against the Fengtien Party,
It has been arranged that General which makes us sure that none of Owen, who appeared for the plain-the acrimonious abuse intended to Cheng Chien will not join the tits, said it had been settled.
Mr. E. el Arculli was for the hit him, ever reached him." It re- Northern Expedition but will plaintiffs in the latter case when fers to Schonberg's battles and remain in Hunan with his troops, his Lordship said judgment had dieulties of only a few years ago. while General Pei Chung-hat will
Mr. Hugh-fonts ascertaining the The proceedings opened with approximate course steered by the Katonah, by the chart and with re ference to the Capsulman lights. In Shup, the coxswain of the Kato:
lo in chambers, unconditionally. He added that Questioned by the President re- $60 had been paid on account.,
Mr. Arculli said his instructions garding the relative positions of the Taming's steaming lights, wit-were not to accept instalments. ness stated that the upper light, was to the left of the lower light
nah, was again in the witness, been consented box.
when first sighted. Answering further questions, witness won not shaken and maintained that the Ughts were always in that relative position.
Balls of Paper.
To ascertain more correctly models were used and subsequently
His Lordship replied that the money had been paid on account and was not in the nature of an instalment."
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BUILDING CASE JUDGMENT.
PLAINTIFFS GET $2,255 AS DIFFERENCE.
FINAL ADDRESSES.
The case arising out of the house concluded building dispute was this morning before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, In the Supreme Court. The case was one in which the Ng Hing Company. claimed $43,258.42 from the Hing Yip Company, Limited, for work done and materials supplied in the building of houses. The defend. ants counter-claimed for $24,000 on the grounds that the bricks used were inferior to those stipulated.
I remember Schönberg's first ap-command the Nationalist troops in in the contract. pearance in England a year or so Hankow.
Li Taung-ich is to lead the Before the war.
the At one of Queen's Hall Symphony Concerts, tionalist troops in Hunan and conducted by Sir Henry Wood, peh in the Northern Expedition. Schonberg was to wield the baton as the orchestra grappled with a harmonies and suite of five pieces composed by Wagner and Ravel. himself. Previously, he had been
Mr. H. G. Sheldon was for the Na-plaintiffs and the defendanta were Hu-represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, KC, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin.
Addressing his Lordship, Mr. modulations of Jenkin first dealt with the matter of bricks. He referred to the fact that the contract was between Chinese parties and that Chinese ment in which the description of the bricks required was given, so that there could not have been any misunderstanding as to the type Also the of bricks required. sample brick was beyond contro veray as both the plaintiff contrac tor and Mr. C. II. Baste had assert- ed that, that brick answered to the description in the contract.
booed at and hissed in various When Chopin, published. Five European cities. New instruments Mazurkas Op. 7 in 1832, these be-characters were used in the docu were included in the orchestra foring among his first and lenst dar the first time, and the audience was in. compositions, Relistab, the THE WILBUR PLAYERS. awaiting the futurist music fn ex-eritic of the Berlin musical paper,
pectation of a sensation.
MANY GOOD THINGS PROMISED.
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only
"Iris," wrote:-In the dances be- fore us the author satisfies the The sensation was certainly passion (of writing affectedly and long pen and a short pencil.
forthcoming. Probably.
nunnaturally) to a loathsome excess, This being an unsatisfactory
very small percentage of those pre He is indefatigable, and I might method, the President used balls.
The Wilbar Players again do- sent had ever heard anything of say inexhaustible, in his search for of paper, one in dither hand, and moved them according to instruc-lighted a large audience at the the really modern school which car-splitting discords, forced tran- Schonberg represents.sitions, harsh modulations, ugly
No Contract Bricks. tions by wllness. By these illustra Star Theatre last night, when Arnold
Counsel continued that on the tions witness completedly revers-they gave a repeat performance of For twenty minutes or so we were distortions of melody and rhythmn. incomprehensible Everything it is possible to think with od his evidence in respect of the "The Sap," which was very clever-regaled
sounds: every instrument seemed of is raked up to produce the effect evidence he would submit that the ly interpreted. relative positions.
to be playing in a different key and of odd originality, but especially only finding his Lordship could The Court further ascertained
To-night at 9.15 the company with a high percentage of wrong strange keys, the most unnatural give was that, in fact, there no contract bricks used that the Katonah had altered course to starboard a few seconds will present "Handcuffed," a detec- notes. Occasionally weird noises position of chords, the most par-re
If Mr. Chopin had That submission was incapable after ighting the Taming, then ve story full of laughs and 48 of Chinese celebrating New verse combinations with regard to in the building of the houses.
thrills. There will be no per Year, fowls having their necks fingering. ....
composition to of absolute proof unless the
showing her port light. When formance by the Wilbur Players wrung, cattle at the slaughter-shown this
house and dogs being run over, master, the latter would, it is buildings were pulled down and the course was altered, the Taming to-morrow night, but the season wero conspicuous amidst the hoped, have torn it and thrown it whole of the bricks laid open for also apparently altered and open-will be resumed
on Saturday ed both alde lights.
ed round tho audience to see how symbolically," The Court then interested it night with the delightfally amus-eneral clatter and hubbub, I look-at his feet, which we hereby do the oxamination of experts.
ing force, "Her Wedding Night." they were "taking it." Some look-
Again, when Chopin commenced Lordship had to judge the matter
tow. Pens were then brought into
tions of the keels.
Witness failed to understand the Interpretation of various terms, "fore and aft" being a particularly disturbing one.
Passenger's Evidence.
Hia
aelf in demonstrations with torn on Sunday, the world-famous ed puzzled, others contemptuous. his Nocturnes, which were a form on a fair test. Counsel submitted paper, to give the approximate farce-comedy, "Charley's Aunt," Some were obviously tittering, of composition originated by Field, that the test used was a fair test shape of the craft composing the with special songs, dances and others posing as though they were a critic wrote as follows:-"Where and, with the evidence, left no use to illustrate the relative post-music, will be presented at 6.30 really enjoying it. Personally,
Field smiles, Chapin makes a grin- reasonable doubt that there was and 9.15 p.m., children being" nd-was consumed with Inward ning grimace; where Field sighs, not, a single Nam Kong brick as mitted at half price to the matinee. laughter. It came to an ond and Chopin groans; where Field shrugs required by the contract.
Counsel went on to speak of the On Monday at 5.30 there will be he turned round, wondering what his shoulders, Chopin twists his
matinee performance of "Three kind of reception he would get in whole body; where Field puts some evidence given with regard to the Live Ghosts," the sensational notoriously hospitable London. He seasoning into the food, Chopin, price of the bricks, saying that comedy with a London back was actually applauded and return-emplies a handful of cayenne the bricks which the contractor ground; and at 9.15 p.m. the sened to the platform to bow-assured-pepper. In short, if one holds in fact bought could not have been son will be brought to a close withly he was understood at last. Field's charming romances before contract bricks because the price distorting concave mirror, so that paid for them was, on the plain- Mr. William Graham Lawson a farewell performance of "The But in the next few minutes he was
Sir Henry every delicate expression becomes Alf's own evidence, $190 per was then called. Witness stated Family Upstairs," the great disillusioned. When
Wood come on, the, platform again, a that he was on board the Katonah comedy of domestic life, which is we cure audience broke into work. We implore Air. Chopin to the evidence that the required conrue one, one gets Chopin's 10,000. It would be clear from on the night in question as a being repeated by popular demand. vociferous applause and cheering, return to nature."
type of brick could not then have passenger. He held a master
some rising to their feet in their
been bought at that figure: mariner's certificate, but had nothing to do with the navigation. When the Katonah was coming through Capsulmun Pass, witness was on the fore deck of the Katonah,
The Vermont was alongside the Katonah, Inshed securely fore and aft. The Vermont projected
about 70 feet beyond the stem of the Katonah and the Katonah's stern projecting a little aft of the Vermont. Both light screens in the Vermont and the Katonah were exactly level on departure from Hongkong,
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enthusiasm, and the contrast in the As regards Schumann, the lead- Mr. Jenkin went on to refer to reception of the two men Was ing musical critics In England the evidence of Mok Chi-nam, sufficient indication of what Lon- seemed bent upon pouring ridicule don really thought about futurist on his works, whenever they wore who was, called by, the defendants | yesterday to give expert evidence music.
performed. The attack on him started in Germany in 1852. When on the bricks. His evidence left RESULT FOR LAST WEEK.
Yet Schonberg has inde good. Madame Schumann came to Eng- no doubt that no contract bricks Either he has modified the bizarre land and played his Plano Concerto, were used and his evidence had In last week's football Competi-effects in later compositions or a
critic spoke of the "efforts of not been formally challenged. It easy for tho produced tion, une competitor succeeded in large number of people have per- the gifted lady to make her hus- would have been
have getting eleven correct forecasts on themselves that continuous band's curious rhapsody pass for plaintiffs one coupon, he being
discords, without melodies, are music." Another wrote in 1853 of evidence to show that Nam Kong pleasant to listen to. Perhaps the his Opus 52: "An affectation; a bricks were, "in fact, used. explanation is that among a certain uperficial knowledge of art, an plaintiff had examined the 28 set it is considered "the thing" to absence of true expression, and an bricks taken from the house by and if he will call at this office we affect understanding and apprecia- Infelicitious disdain of form have the defendants and had picked out of characterised every work of Robert two as contract bricks, Mr. Bas Witness went below when the shall be pleased to hand him the tion of futurist music, as Pass was cleared and was undress-prize money of $26.
futurist paintings. But it is safer Schumann's hitherto introduced to had rejected those two and had: con- into this country. The con- said that nearly all the otuers to suspend judgment. The Ing when he heard a blast by the Katonah and engines being put Owing to many of the matches temporaries of both Chopin, and vulsive efforts of one who has never were contract bricks.
Counsel submitted that full astern. He rushed to the resulting as anticipated, there were Schumann, and of countless others, properly studied his art to hide
their harmonics dis- the deficiencies of early education class of bricks in fact used were forecastle head and saw a vessel, numerous claims received in respect thought since discovered to be the Taming, of ten, nine and eight correct fore-cordant, whereas our ears have under a mist of pompous swagger. Tung Kong and Honam and that The whole work is un- there was no evidence to the con- crossing the bows of the Katonah. casts. The total entries were again rown accustomed not only to them.
trary. (Continued on Page 14.) but to the far more complicated Engines were by this time operat-large,
Mr. T. G. Hallahan,
Royal Naval Hospital,
ing full astern. He was on deck This week's coupon will be found too late to take any steps to on another page, and as there will avoid a collision.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hall Brutton,, witness described the construction of the bridge and the complement necessary for working the Katonal, which, he said was a pllot, a coxswain and a helmeman in narrow waters. On a steady course, probably only the pilot and
a helmsman would be present.
In answer to questions, witness
be no issue of the Telegraph to- morrow (on account of Good Fri- day) to-day's coupon is, the last which will appear for this week.
MOTORS ROADS AND MORALS.
repented his evidence with regard WHAT HUNAN CONFERENCE
to lights and their position..
When the collision occurred the Katonah was probably 4-mile from shore.
"Cuss Words."
DISCUSSED.
Shanghai, Apr. 4.
One of the chief flems discussed
by the Hunan military leaders at the recent Hunan Rehabitation
When Mr. Brutton auggested Conference, of which. General that witness had only been on deck Cheng Chien was the Chair-
for a very short time before the man, and was attended by collision, Mr. Lawson replied that quite a number of lenders
he was long enough there to hear of the * “Kwangsi Clique," was the question of constructing roads connecting Hunan with Kwangtung and Kwanget.
the "cuss words" of the Taming They probably thought I was a Chairman, being in my shirt tails," be added.
Other problemas touched upon at Witness described the damage the Conference included the In- done to the Vermont and gave culcantion of the moral principles details of weather conditions and | in education and the furthering of visibility which corroborated pre- the doctrines of the Kuomintang vlous evidente.
Party in Hunan.
In reply to the President, wit- ness explained that the "cusa words" came from the Taming just bofore the Impact and were not uttered by himself,
Lam Kwan, pilot of the Kato-, nah, stated that the tug was alter- od to starboard immediately after
RUGBY'S RADIO HOLIDAY.
London, Apl, 4. Owing to the Easter holidays,
pasaing Ma Wan Light and the wireless service will be suspend- steered towards the north shore for about 55 minutos. The lights of the Taming wore sighted masthead and port bow-on the
od after the transmission of the noon message on Thursday until Saturday, when the usual messages will be despatched. Thereafter, messages will be discontinued until
port bow, the shipa steering on the usual service is resumed 8 p.m/ opposite courses. Had both ves-Monday-British Wireless,
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The plaintiffs had alleged that the bricks need not come up to the sample because towards the end of 1924 they themselves paid a visit to certain shops and select- ed their own bricks. That not avonue, said counsel.. was open to the plaintiffs because it had not been pleaded but, even if it had been pleaded, he would confidently ask his Lordship to reject that story as being unprov cd..
Mr. Jenkin continued that the evidence was overwhelming that the value of the bricks in fact The used was $175 per 10,000. plaintiff had himself stated that he paid $100 per 10,000, but it had been; established that the ruling price at that time of the contract bricks was $240 in amall quantities or about $285 in large quantities per 10,000. It had boen agreed that the number of bricks actually used was 2,590,000 but there would have been 2,943,- 182 contract bricks. The financial result would be that the bricks actually used at $175 per 10,000 would amount to $45,825. The value of the contret bricks at $285 per 10,000 would be $60,000. The difference was $23,705, Coun- sel submitted that judgment should be given for the defendants on the counter-claim for that difference.
Challenge Query.
Mr. Sheldon stated that the plaintiff had said the average price paid for the bricks was $190 per 10,000 and that had not been challenged,
His Lordship asked. Mr. Sheldon if he could say that.
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