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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
THOSE POP-GUNS.
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
which would be absurdity itself. To the man who wants to use a toy of this kind for intimidation, nothing is easier than to go into a local store and buy one. He represents a far greater danger than the people who patronise shooting galleries to try their luck and akill. Even so, it would be ridiculous to insist on permits for every type of article which might be used in imitation of a revolver; an ordinary smoking-pipe could be so employed, "but we can hardly imagine that the police would argue in favour of legislation re- quiring smokers to take licences!
nut
It having been held that pop- guns are "arms," the keepers of these galleries might reasonably expect to be granted permits under the Ordinance, but it transpired during yesterday's cases that as the police consider these establish ments to be undesirable, no such permits will be given. It would If be Interesting to know why. these places are properly conduct- ed-and they are quite a common. feature of life at Home-we can not see why the police should be so insistent on closing them down. Indeed, their action in such cir- cumstances would smack of un- warranted interference.
ance.
Ice Cream Carts,
If, on
the other hand, there is any element of gambling involved, the proper course of action is to pro- ceed under quite another Ordin- As matters are left by yesterday's decision, every child who owns a pop-gun seems bound either to get a permit or to be exempted by the Inspector-General Whilst we agree that, under an of Police! We shall watch forth- absolutely literal reading of the coming issues of the Government appropriate Ordinance, Mr.Gazette with amused interest and Grantham had no other option curiosity to see how the puzzin yesterday than to hold that pop-will be solved. guns which discharge cork mis- siles are "arme," we, with him. question the necessity of the police
By order of the police the paltry taking action against the keepers little carts from which Chinese of shooting galleries in which have been wont to sell ice-cream these toys are used. It could.
and other commodities in the moreover, be argued with a con- streets are banned, and presum→ siderable measure of reason that ably their use will now be follow ed by an appearance in Court and the Ordinance under which the
fine. Two reasons for this summonses were taken out was
intended by those who action are given. One, that if an never
ice creara dealer is given permis- framed it to apply to cases of this
sion to use such a cart the same kind. Its very title, the Arms and
concession would have to be grant- Ammunition Ordinance, lends sup- ed to other hawkers with the re- port
Wesult that there would be hundreds this contention, Lo would go further and venture to on the streets. The second rea- with big loads and suggest that the definition of son is that
wheels these carts Cause "arms" contained in the Ordin- thin ance, on which the police relied. considerable damage to the roads. The first plen might be reason- upholds this view of the Intention
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DAY BY DAY.
I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE A NEW CONCEPTION OF NOBILITY, BASED ON REAL SUPERIORITY, AND NOT ON COATS OF ARMS OR BROAD ACRES. Dean Ingé.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
A whist drive is being held this evening in St. John's Cathedral Hall at 8.45 p.m.
***
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed by Hongkong against ar- rivals from Bangkok on account of cholera.
The mistress of a passenger boat was fined $7 at the Marine Court this morning for carrying seven passengers in excess of the
number allowed by her licence.
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A report has been made by Fung Kam-hoi, master of the cargo boat H3420V, that about 6.30 p.m. yes terday whilst the junk was sailing by the s.s. Ammon, which was tied to buoy No. 52. a foki, named Kwok native of Kwok, aged 36, and a Taiping, accidentally fell over- board and was drowned.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The Kuomintang and Borodin.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.1
Sir, The undersigned was sur- prised to read a telegram under the heading of "Borodin reported in Shanghai," in your issue dated April 28, in connexion with the confusion between Left Wing Of the Kuomintang and the Commun- ist Party of China..
It was on July 15th, 1927, that the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang resolved to en- force the dismissal of M, Borodin from advisership and consequent- ly deported him to Russia by way of Mongolin. The proposal was strongly supported by the Leftists and through the influence of Messrs. Wang Ching-wej, Chen
Kung-po, and Koo Meng-yu, it was definitely resolved. finally and Again it was Mr. Wang Ching-wei, who was then the Chairman of the Nationalist Government, who gave An attractive Folder, containing which can be seen from the the mandate effect. For this rea- train on a journey between Kow son, the Chinese Communists re- loon and Canton, and also photo-gard the Leftists of the Kuomin- graphs of points of interest in the tang as their enemies and requito city of Canton and Hs environs, them by severe attacks, whenever has just been Issued by the British opportunities come. Section of the Kowloon-Canton Mr. Wang Ching-wei and his fol- denounce the lowers, likewise Railway.
crimes committed by the Commun- ista.
Charged with anchoring their boats in the cable area, four mis- tresses of passenger boats were fined $5 each at the Marine Court this morning before the Hon. Yours, etc., Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. stated that three had stone an- the fourth had the chors, but usual iroa type.
It was
Having been sentenced for: returning from banishment on a previous occasion, a Chinese who was charged before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with disobeying an order of deportation dated 1928 and covering a life period, was given twelve months' hard labour and fifteen strokes of the birch.
In response,
These facts are acknowledged by those who are acquainted with the political situation in China.
P. Tau, Delegate of "La Federa-
tion du Kuomintang
en Europe."
Hongkong, Apr. 30th, 1930.
LABOUR DAY IN THE COLONY.
The Very Idea!
It fell upon a day that a certai erudite philosopher held discourse with an unquestionable fool, in the presence of a shorthand reporter,
used the who
same phonetic symbol for "F" and "Ph.".
In transcribing his notes of the dialogue he attributed to the philó- sopher what had been said by the fool, and credited the fool with the utterances of the philosopher. Nobody noticed the difference.
•
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[It is suggested that those born ins the scientific age of the future will wonder how we ever muddled along.1
In a scientiñerage,
I am ready to engage Youth will view the present era with
surprise,
It will know that it is true That we somehow muddled through. But one fact it won't be Table
disguise
If it tries-
We were duffers, though we thought
ourselves o wlac.
.
With our motor-cars, and trains,-- And our flying boats and planos, Our talkies and cur, wireless and the
rest,
state We believe our present, Absolutely up-to-date, Our equipment, so we think, must be
Far the best
confessed
of any that our race has yet possessed.
But our age will seem a dud, And our name will be as mud, Our descendants will undoubtedly
agree. They
will wonder, more or less, How we lived in ancha mesa. « But there's still one consolation left
for me,
For you sco
They be duds to other ages yet to be.
"What do you mean by laltering near a jeweller's window, and with a brick in your pocket?"
"There now, officer, I'd utmost forgot. 1 promised to go and help a friend drown a cat to-night."
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If the cosmos has a purpose, that purpose can hardly be the production of life; there must be some relevant relation between fac- tory and cutput-Mr. A. Wyatt Tilby.
We are wasting money and time THREE MEN ARRESTED WITH in trying to educate the uneduc
LEAFLETS.
able, both rich and poor Mr. J. E. S. Haldane,
It may not be an accident that the two nations which have pro- duced the greatest poets are the nations which have paid the great-
Mr. R. S. Bevan, of 6. Railway Terrace was summoned before Mr.
Το guard against "Red" Whyte Smith at the Kowloon activities on May Day, the police Magistracy this morning for keep have taken extensive precautions ing a dog without a licence. The including the posting of a large defendant produced licence number of men at points where est
a
might be rewarded. dated before the summons was is activity sued and the charge was accord- ingly withdrawn, it being stated that a mistake had occurred some- where.
honour to athletes. Mr. Robert Lynd..
I have found that bureaucracy is the greatest assassinator of all creative invention or experiment Mr. C. R. W. Nevinson.
This has resulted in the arrest of thiee men in different districts, all of whom were, found in possession of Communistic leaflets. In reporting the arrest of one Because a chicken was only of these on the roof of the Mei-
Mr. J. Gellatly, a Sanitary Ins being carried for a short distance chow Hotel, a large boarding-
pector, residing at the European Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon house in Des Voeux Road Central, M.C.A., was involved in an ac- Magistracy this morning caution-last night, Police Headquarters cident near, the Ford garage on el a Chinese who was charged stated this morning that the man Tuesday night about 8.35. Re with causing cruelty by carrying was on the point of scattering a was riding a motor cycle when the fowl suspended by the legs, handful of leaflets into the street. suddenly a Chinese woman darted his Worship taking cognisance of He was seized by a Chinese across the road and was knocked the evidence given sometime ago detective who had been posted in down by the right off side handle by the Colonial Vetertinary Sur- the building for the purpose of har before the machine coull be geon on the question of cruelty. awaiting this contingency.
pulled up. She received no in- Similarly, two other Communists juries but suffered. slightly from were arrested at about the same shock. time last night at Yaumati and
A Chinese, who was found in possession of a spanner and a
of our law-makers. This definable, although we should like to be convinced that immediately tion reads:-"Every air, gun, andese little carts were permitted hammer, similar to tools used Mongkok ́respectively, where they cNKORALO VOLUMENT/SERVISET 19
words,
"shot"
and
from
give his name or to locate him.
...
ginal dance creations. Other done- ing items by "Smiling" Jack Med- much enjoyed, while ford were Miss Kathrine Scott at the piano was all that could be wished. Mr. Mantell's world famous marionet- es also contributed much to the success of ал enjoyable per
or no
FELL WHEN TRYING
TO ESCAPE..
SUSPECTED, THIEF FALLS
OVER VENANDAH.
every other kind of gun
nd lib, hawkers who have long with motor cars. was brought were seen scattering literature in which any shot, bullet or other
been established on well known before Mr. Whyte Smith at the the streets. missile can
be discharged."
pitches would throw up security Kowloon Magistracy this morning Elsewhere, police action has Whilst it is true that the term for the doubtful benefits of a per- and fined $5 or seven days hard been confined to the destruction "any other missile" would, on a ambulating business. We are not labour on a charge of unlawful of posters put up at isolated possession. The defendant stated points. Bundles of "Red" tracts; literal reading, include corks fired quite so certain as the police that that the articles were given to him were also scized in public latrines. by pop-guns, the preceding these carts would appear in their by a friend, but was unable to
On the whole, little activity has been shown locally "bullet" hundreds, but waive discussion on
by Communists in celebration of obviously suggest that the type of the point because the second ren-
The vaudeville entertainment Labour Day. The police are in- son demands attention. We sug- weapon referred to is one which,
presented by "The New Yorkers" at clined to believe that in the pre- the police case would gest that
the Star Theatre last night, won sent instance, only two men haye; when in normal use, discharges
have been stronger if this had much appreciation from the put themselves to any consider- dangerous missiles. The bringing never been mentioned. Anyone audience. Miss Ruth van Valey was within the scope of the law of a who has
seen these little carts, again the chief entertainer and de-able exertion in organizing this child's pop-gun, or of pop-guns of not the huge trucks which we have lighted the audience with her ori- "demonstration of the proletariat."
condemned, must the type used by these shooting frequently galleries, was surely never intend-realise that their fragile nature ed. Even the police had to admit makes it impossible for them to do the in Court that these weapons were carry loads sufficient to
slightest damage to the roads. not any way dangerous.
Under a heavy load they would The police attitude, as revealed
merely collapse for they consist formanes. in the cases, Was that similar
of bits of wood nailed together those used in the and equipped with weapons to
3 pair of shooting galleries had, on
occa wheels. If the police are con- sion, been used for the purpose cerned about damage to the roads of intimidation, and that people they should clear off the streets frequenting these galleries might, without further delay every hand with the practice they acquired, drawn truck, a vehicle which, gen- New York think of using the pop-guns for erally carrying a colossal load, Brussels does far more damage than a mil- Geneva
Amsterdam this particular
We purpose, suggest, that these submissions and always, constitutes an ob- Berlin lion paltry little hawkers" carts Milan are not at all convincing. No struction to modern traffic by rea- Stockholm
Copenhagen practice in shooting is needed in aon of its cumbersome nature. We als order to use these toys for the suggest that the police might con- Vienna purpose of intimidation; the centrate on the bigger problem Prague
Helsingfors criminally-minded person could so and solve it before attempting to Madrid use them even if he had never cope with one which appears to Lisbon
Athens once fired the guns, or even if no be more imaginary than real. Bucharest missile were provided. It thus follows that if the police really fear the employment of pop-guns for this purpose, they would in- sist on shopkeepers not being permitted to sell without a licence
Amongst the passengers who left by the s.8. Asama Maru to-day were Mr. D. M. Rosa, Mr. A. Pris- mall, Mrs: Stenham, the Misses Stonham, Mr. Andrew Tee and Miss Ruth van Valey and Company.
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A suspected thief's attempt to escape with ill-gotten gains yes- terday was brought to an aprupt and painful end, when he fell over the verandah from the first floor of London, Apr. 30.
No 9 Main Street, Aplichau, and 123.925 fractured his thigh. .4.88% 34.884
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The man is Wong Lin, aged 31; of no fixed abode, who was found at the foot of the first flight of 12.07% stairs. He had a suit of clothing, ..92.78 .20.366 which, it is alleged, he stole from apparently 18.09 the house. He was :.18.105 detected and in his haste to escape. ...18.16 arrest, fell over the verandah and
84.466 was badly injured.
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Among those going north yester- 43.3/32 1/6.27/32 day by the Empress of Asia were Mr. and Mrs. H. H H Priestley, 1/11
Mr. A. 8. Gubhay Mr. and Mrs. .1/6.1/16
2/0% Ho Ki, Mr. P. W. Massey, Mr. and 10% Mr.T. E. Pearce, Dr. L. Reidy, 19.0/16 Mr. P. Tester, Mr. D. Templeton, -British Wireleán.
and Mr. S. Potts.".
WHO WAS
LADY CICELY
WAYNEFLEET?
The chief characteristic of Lady Cicely Waynefleet was a disposition to think well of everybody. Her faith in the goodness and sanity of human nature being absolute, it fol lowed that she feared nothing and nobody.
When the Arab guides betray her and her party into the hands of Captain Brassbound, who is pirating in the Moroccan wilds, Lady Cicely cannot believe that the captain is such a horridly revengeful, obstinate, unkind, person as he makes himself out to be-and to his annoyance and surprise. the gentleman finds himself sharing her optimism.
He does not find it so easy. to agree with her when she goes on to view his native accomplices through the same rose-coloured spectacles, and by the gleam which lights up in the dusky tribemen's eyes at Lady Cicaly's offer to go with them as their part of the spoils, the audience is all of the opinion that the lady's delightful philosophy of life will shortly find its Waterloo.
Various critics have taken this charming creature" much too seriously, calling her the incarnation of Ellen Terry's Bernard -temperament plus
Shaw's wit. It is doubtful. whether she is the incarn8- tion of anything more pro....... "found than the idea that, while pure optimism may occasionally score a spectacular success it is wise not to apply the principle too often. You will find her in G.B's Captain Brass- bound's Conversion.
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