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Mr. A. R. JAMES, of the B.B.C., says
Pure English is Very
Elusive.
The Legislative Council ia to meat on Monday next at 9.30 a.m. to consider the report of yester- day's Finance Committee meeting.HE "purest English" legend! Cross, such is the charm of this T promises to rival the sea-ser-lady's volco, but what I should do
extende
Lo the
Oxford.
over
public generally did not know that the Executive Council had even considered the matter, of prison diet, yet the convicts appear some how to have gained a cortain amount of knowledge on the point, GREATEST VIRTUE LIB NEGLECTED
IN THE PURSUIT OF PLEABÚRE, TIE
to the extent that the Committee's | Tully. proposals had not been finally ac cepted! The obvious reflection is that there must be something andly awry with the administration of the gaol if the inmates can be kept so well informed on what ia trans-
We have received from the Dun-pent myth in popularity. "Purest if she spoke the "purest English" piring outside. A much more lop Rubber Company a calendar English, like our old friend the Mr. Shaw alone can tell. serious point nuggests itself, name tien of an oil painting of "The numerous places.
embodying an excellent reproduc-sen-serpent, has been located in
Variety Inevitable, Let us make up our mind about ly, that if the convicts can so effec- |Strand," London.
It has been found in the High-one simple fact in connexion with tively organise a strike as a protest
lands, in the Lowland, in the speech. Speech is but one of the against their food supply, through The closing date of the entries of Irish Free State, in Ulster, in many aspects of our social be the aid of outside influences, they the Hongkong University Amuntour Yorkshire, in the Forest of Dean, haviour: it is but one of the many Photographic Club Exhibition has in Norfolk, and in Dorect, not to facets of our character. So long could just as easily utilise the same been
And mention all the other counties of Ra there are varieties of character, medium for planning a big-scale January.
England. It has never been seen varieties of social status, vario
or heard--so the legend goes, in ties of environment, varieties of CHEVROLET 1929
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Two Chinese cases of diphtheria the Rhondda Valley, in Wigan, in ambition and of ideal, there will USED SEDAN 4 cyl. 26 h.p.
the danger of the whole community from Kowloon and one foreign case Burslem, in Bethnal Green, or in be varieties of speech.
The English language is, like » fully
NOW equipped
IN
Taking all the facts Into con- from Victoria are reported in the Chalk Farm, but there are tracea
Officer'a report for the of its having been known in Bel- all languages that spread DAILY SERVICE
sideration, it does seem that there Medien)
large areas and embrace all classes Is need for an inquiry not merely night. There was also a Chinese
twenty-four hours ended at mid-size Park,
of society, capable of infinite into the prisoners' food, but on the case of typhoid.
A society for its propagation varioties that are excellent in- whole question of the running of
exists with headquarters at Ox- every respect; you will find ox- ford, but the Oxford accent is ap-cellent varieties in the Rhondda the gaol. When, at
Capt. Hutchings, of the yesterday's
Kwongsang, has reported to the parently hostile. So far nothing Valley, in Wigan, oven in Oxford, meeting of the Finance Committee, Harbour Office that whilst on her has been heard from Cambridge if you know where to look for the Colonial Secretary was asked way down to Hongkong from Can- on the subject. We are informed them.
ton yesterday, the steamer collid that the purest English in seldom But where to look for the "purest whether the Government were
ed with a junk, which was in tow, heard on the stage, never heard English" I cannot say, and I don't satisfied with the present adminis and went ground for a short in the Church, has been known in know that I am interested! tration of the gual, he replied "As while. The Kwongsang arrived in the Law Courts, and is a
complete- far as I am aware, yes," but added, port shortly after 10 o'clock lastly foreign language to many re-
night.
citers and to most singers. somewhat cryptically. "It is ex-
This is what I gather from rend- difficult tremely
ing the papers, from studying the Bay." Why In preparation for the Christ-comments that come from critica mas festivities, two Chinese were all over the country, and especial- should it be? Surely the Govern-
caught red-handed cutting ment is either satisfied or dissatis branches from fir trees, to be sold from listening to the discus fled. It may be, of course,
will a casual remark that as Christmas trees, from Crown sons that
lecture room. arouse in a
Whether the Victoria Gaol is an utterly out-of-and in Kowloon City. They were brought before Mr. Butters, at the
"purest English" date and ill-designed as to make it Kowloon Magistracy this morning, exists in Savoy Hill (the headquar impossible for the prison authori- by Sub-Inspector Biston, who saidters of the British Broadcasting ties to exercise the control and they had 23 trees in their posses-Corporation) is an open question,
sien. Each was fined $25.
according to the evidence before supervision which are essentint in
ONCE again we might readers The. On the whole, I think there have reached the season of the. is a majority of testimony in fa-year when we are obliged to suffer an establishment of the kind; that In order to introduce Penfold your of Savoy Hill, and there is very unnecessarily for our culture. the Superintendent and his subor-and Bromford golf balls, Messrs. less disposition to shoot broadcas-Hore we are almost in November J. D. Hutchison & Co., are offering tera than there was five years ago.and our lot during the coming a box of half a dozen assorted to There players who return scores of All than there was, and evidently the ever it was.
la less talk of pollution winter promises to be as bleak as Square or better in any Rogey country in getting used to broad- Hongkong Golf Club, Fanling, or But what nonsense this "purest Competition held at the Royal cast English.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mrs. Brock and Mrs. Chittenden lesire to thank all those kind friends who sent them CX- pressions of sympathy in their bereavement, as well as those who attended at the funeral ank who went wreaths.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, DEC. 23, 1930.
THE GAOL STRIKE.
to
felt in many parts of China and
An Awkward Coincidence,
.N.
to
LANE-NORCOTT on PAINLESS
1
READING
IN BED.
little to lessen the hardships of Indeed, but for its gift of the bedside light, Science has done
as we
dinates are unduly handicapped as Even so, it ought a consequence. surely to be possible to keep the old hands from contact of any kind with the outside world. The public at the Kowloon Golf Club, during English" is! We are so bewitch the reader-in-bed. will refuse to be assured by official the Christmas or New Year holi-ed by words that wo are utterly days. Cards must be certified by
And even this bedside light, now communiques lying stress on the the respective Secretaries.
unable
think intelligently, that I come to think about it, It is becoming a habit all
Why drag in works such as "pure," leaves a lot to be desired.. It isn't over very much delayed schemes for new
with all their ethical, moral, and every reader-in bad who wishes to the world, and particularly in the gant accommodation, or by state-
esthetic implications? Are we to control his bedside light by hand. It is not to be expected that have a board of censorн, been. Far Bast,
"Reds" to blame
orments that the prisoners are by no
and Surely a little toe-switch fitted to "agitators" when a serious dis- means ananimous in their apposite Hon. Member shall be an fail stamp a Union Jack on the fore- the inside of the bedpost could do
with the intricate delalls of the heads of all those who speak the no harm? turbance of uny kind recurs to tion to the authorities. Such . working of every Government de "purest English"? cause a break in the normal run of situation as now exists in Victoriapartment. and in
Let our shopkeepers add to circumstances
Frankly, the more we consider · life. This is precisely what the Gaol ought never to have been made like those obtaining yesterday, their notices; let us see not only this matter of night reading, the on parle francais" and "Man plainer it becomes to us that it is Hongkong Government has done in possible. The least that the Gov-Government would do well to have spricht Deutsch," but "Only the still in infancy. No other section the matter of the strike which has crnment can now do is to see that the head of the department concern purest English spoken." Let the of the community is so persistent- tren proceeding in Victoria Gaul, steps are inken to stop communica-ed readily accessible to the Finance electric railways of London in-ly neglected by inventors
Committee. Misunderstandings can struct their servants to shout readers-in-bed. for the past week. The trouble is tion between the prisoners and to be avoided by the adaption of this "Mind the doors!" In the "purest For example, tako ciderdowns. attributed to "outalde influences," let the public know that action proposal and, morcover, and more lift girls in the metropolia and ciderdown to the render-in-bed? English" let us assemble all the Of what use is the ordinary oblong and in elaboraling this point the along this line has been made effec-important, it will prevent votes bestench them that they must not say Each time this man turns over a Government says our Guol is "antire.
ing approved with Members still "Going op because "going op," page hla ciderdown slips off his obvious mark for the agitators who
unsatisfied in their minds, or hold- is not the "purest English.” shoulders, and directly he tries to have recently made their presence
ing up votes unnecessarily unt
Telephone Problem.
pull it up again his book shuts and they are I so happened on the And what shall we do with our so he loses his place.
Well I, for one, cannot bollove present issue that the Unofficials telephone operators? Shall we the Far East." As to the method
The Gilbertian side of the gaol were able to complement the official take them to the Highlands, or the that it is beyond elderdown manu employed, we are told that "com-strike intrudes more and more upon explanations with the results of Lowlands, or the Forest of Dean, facturers to design a neat elder- munication with prisoners is not the gravity of the affair. We can personal observations.
of any of the other reputed haunts down sultablo for winter night The Hon. of the "purest English," and let reading. After all, it isn't asking very difficult, if only through the not imagine a more awkward coin-Mr. Paterson expressed the view them imbibe the local phonetics much really. Just a simple eider- medium of the short-sentence
cidence than complaints of short that the quality of food supplied to as a preliminary to service at the down fitted with a hole through rations accompanied by serious prisoners is extraordinarily good, switch-board?
which a reader can place his head, men.". This confirme the
unrest and a Government request and while unable to judge as to There is a lady in Charing together with two smaller outlets, THE LAST WORD IN COMFORT AND HAS Uggestion which We
that money saved on the allowance quantity, endorsed the general viewing "Rowziz, luvvy rowziz," is sell-centre. Could anything be much Cross who, when she is not sell or hand orifices, arranged near the forward in commenting on authorised for, the supply of food that it would be a mistake to over-ing "Luvvy nawals." I feel sure simpler than that? THE FOLLOWING ADVANTAGES.
the matter on Friday Inst, when we to prisoners be applied to other feed convicts. Gaol is intended to that some day the police will ar-
And if overcoats can havo pointed out the case with which purposes. The very artlessness of be punishment, not a rest cure, rest me for loitering in Charing pockets--and what are overcoats messages could be carried between Government in the matter is auf
except daytime elder-downs?--why can't real olderdowns have them? the old hands by these short-term ficient to avert suspicion, otherwise
It is absurd that a man should men, whose services are utilised In one would jump to the conclusion,
have to spend half his night life cause and effect At the same the earrying of food, etc. If this time, the bewilderment of the Un-
jumping out of bed to look for the paper knife. Is the real explanation, as the Gov official Members of the Council, ernment now itself suggests, we causing them to shed their usual can only marvel that the operation faciturnity by general consent, is of the system has not been long easily understood. Twelve thou- since put an end to by the very sand dollars is a fairly useful sum to save out of $100,000, while, if obvious method of seeing that con-
memory serves us correctly, the- tact is rendered impossible.
five votes approved at yesterday's The extent to which the convicts meeting are not the only ones that have organised themselves may be have been financed from the Pri- further gathered when the Govern-soners Subsistence Vote in the cur- ment admits how extremely well in-rent year. The situation was one formed they appear to have been calling
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the logical inference must qecurring in connexion with the
perforce have been discarded' food question. A Committee ap in
view of the Government's pointed to deal with complaints rare notvete. It must not be. In- mado certain recommendations ferred that the supply of food to which the Executive Council con- prisoners has been cut down. This sidered but referred back, the Gov money has been saved not on the ernment in the meantime autharla-food, but on the Vote, a very im- portant difference, though it would ing certain improvements in the have been informative if the Un- dietary scale. "Information
Apofcials had taken the trouble to on- pears lo havo renched the quire how the number of prisoners prisoners," says the Government, this year has compared with the "that recommendations had been Axures for 1923, or, alternatively, made which had not been fully ac-whether an equally large saving on the Voto was possible in 1929, cepted, and this information has After all, the cost of living has been made the excuse for causing rison, and bearing this in mind; the trouble." A more amazing situs Colonial Secretary's explanations tion could hardly be conceived. The i were not as full as they might have
'DAN KEA STRYKE EASE
"I can't decide what to do on my holiday. Lots of my friends want me to go out camping with them."
And that bringe me to another and even more important side of night reading. I refer to that de lightful sister Art-night amok- Ing.
In
other phase of night every life in the restaurants; at the theatres, in the clubs-adequate arrangements are made for the smoker. It is only in the sanctity of his own bedroom that his com- fort is studiously ignored.
Fet with a little ingenuity what. great things could be done with How that useless bedelde wall.. simple it would be to turn it into a complete smoker's cabinet. By just removing a brick here and a brick there ample space could be. made for everything.
Nor need these alterations: sp. pear.at all unsightly. No one but - the smoker himself need over know that behind the pretty picture "Love Locked Out" are scerated cigarettes, cigars, pipes, tobacco, matches, ash dumps, and fre extinguisher.
Well, fortunately there a stili. time for Sefence to give full reign to its Imagination before the next Ideal Homes Exhibition. More than enough
has been said ito show It the way." Wa. sufferers from insomnia may now reasonably... expect to see admes thing very novel in the "Night. Reader's Ideal Bedroom" this year.