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intense pain in the head and chest,
4, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
PEAT INFANTIL EN VIOLETTRES CHERSUASIONE DALAIGNSCHUTZIENNIK Ö
THE WISE, ARE
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a puin which is followed by such acute misery that it sometiates drives men to suicide-these came REASON, ORDINARY MINDS BY EX- into use before the end of the last) PERIENCE; THE STUPID- BY NECES- Í
INSTINCT war, Men, however, recoveredSITY, AND BRUTES BY
Cicero. from doses of these gases, just as they sometimes did from miestard as and phosgene, and it may be nssured that more effective sub- stitutes are now being devised.
The P. and O. 1.5. Kidderpové, from Singapore, is due here at 10 am. on Thursday.
The P. and O... Kidderpore, from Shanghai, is due here at 5 alin. on Wednesday.
The Ben Line 88 Benvannoch, from Home vin Straits, is due here. Wednesday.
The through expres along the Canton-Kowloon was resumed yesterday.
to
AFTER "BIG BILL”
By COLLINSON OWEN. WHAT?
Ń 1933 Chicago will be a hun-J I have seen nothing in print to dred years old, and in that year suggest that any such arrangements it is to hold a World's Fair which as this will be made, but examining will certainly surpass anything of the situation one can find no other the kind Been before. Here wo solution if Mayor Cermak is to have find the primary reason for the a quiet Chicago for 1933. A smashing of "Big B" Thompson, Lician-particularly in the United the Republican ex-Mayer, by Antan States--has to face facts as they J. Cermak, the Democratic candi- are. In 1921 William E. Dever,
date.
діно
poli-
A Whist Drive Is being held, this We have read even of plans for evening in St. John's Cathedral Hall
nt 8.45 p.m. spreading various forma of plague. When we contemplate points, like these, it may well
dny a Democrat, carried the naked where is the glamour and
It is the beginning of a "clean for virtue against Thompson and rhivalry of modern warfare. War
on up" that we see in progress, but the Repubilean forces, and during of office tried to his four years under such conditions as we have
one which, for once, has something) rare behind it than the usual ex- "keep the lid tight on vice and envisaged does not mean fighting
and in Canton asperation of citizens tired of being crime." Ils earnest efforts were
only partially successful, In any
that schoolboys
Railway exploited by a gang of corrupt 1927 Thompsonism came back with understand; it is merely a acien-
politicians. For a long time past
rush. The new Democratic the defent of Thompsos has been
be content Mayor will probably tille way of shouting, burning or
One Chinese ense of meringitis and threatening—or promising.
with a warking compromise, suf- | poisoning well-intentioned groups one of typhoid fever were reported Lo
Chiengo realise that whatever ficient to make 1933 go off very might happen in of people, many of whim will the Medical Offeur of Health during
any ordinary nicely. the week-end.
year, A.D. 1933 must be something Firing
One factor which has certainly different. It, woudd be impossible largely influenced this election is shells in the hope that they will
for Chicago to invite the world to destroy the enemy ten miles or noticed of Mr. James Young, of the job in its great celebration if at the murder of Jake Lingle, the re- of the Chicago Tribune, porter the dropping Chinu ight and Power Company Co. saniy time I was the gangsters } as long ago as June of last year.
Ltd, Kennedy Town, to Miss Annie
paradise, as it was falls assasination in a crowded sub- copied to be under the Thompson my, Yasukuni Mor
way caused an immense enantion. Now at any rate rozitne.
1t Chica
The sensation. increased when was realised, just after he had been miles long, that he was not just a Despite police reporter, bit had drawn large revenues from the gangs. this the shock was so violent, anst the campaign of the Chicags Tri- be insistent, that it became one of those rare cases in which something had to be done.
Bever
the
Diore away ar
humba on helpless civilians do not
square with ideas of war Extent and high adventure.
The forthcoming wedding is an
Mney Victoria Bennett, on board the
male fernce,
three
I 1
1..
con
Swerving to pass a truck which he can be made to the world. Those who love the moral train- bad overtaken on the waterfront near under Democratic rule is to buried with a funeral cortege two
the Ven On Wharf on Saturday, a purged; and visitors will be wel THE HONGKONG HOTEL|ing of the younger generation in riekaba was knocked over by a tram come in a city where homicid will hand are beginping to tool that a ent from behind. The confie eenged but overshow structural magni
jury, but the passenger, it
Thai, at any rate, is the GARAGE.
wider outlook i- needed than Chiese, suffi red injuries to his how theory.
Cermak, the new Mayor, has insistence on marrow nationalism, and was taken to hospital. The oft
shinft of the vehicle was splinterest.
fought his cangaish largely on the They realise that, the youth of the word must be taught that explies With three previous convictions for question of gang rule, and the mo-
notorious theft against him. 14-year-kept was most propitious for this
Revently again—a This is not to be a powerful cry,
sen- tion to-day means a community o
Mertenced Lo Was
bandit, Leo Brothers, was is on Capone's say that
power nation which live or the Popredhey, { months' hard! Iniour by Mr. Hamilton !!
tenced to fourteen years for the well is 100 this the wane. the Kowhion Magistracy and that international war ersat
would be murder. Capone denounced this n murning on a charge of picking the solidated for that. It eivil war on a big sealr.
Thus
porket of n pedestrian. His Worship truer to say that his rule, so far the worst frame-up he had ever was at once is it being suggested that his remarked that the defendant was nua it goes, has become state, and seen." An appeal
во boys need regular instruction in through wondrel and it was obvious has censed to excite any indigna entered. It looked then as though
31 ware no uses beating him.
tion, so long as it does not ohtrutle thin verdiet would go the way of
many others, and finally be reduced to much. the ideals expresented by the
The change of to next to nothing. Belated news has reached Shanghai |
may affect this League of Nations as an antidote
of the death of Mr. G. 8. C. Garden, Only recently he was dimissed administrations
letnil. to the perpetual atmosphere of who was well-known in Shanghai, and the vagrancy charge which has
All the same; we may look back nationalism in which they find who in November, 1929, accomplished been for so long hanging over him
a remarkable journey overland from This was, in effect, an admission to the murder of Lingle as one of themselves. The teaching of Chungking to Burn on his way home that the law as administered can the forces which has sent Thomp- modern international history on legve.
of the Asiatic Petroleum Company's do nothing with him, and that most The fact is leromlag increas-objectively and the encouraging teams off from 192, 2019 people are content to let well-or
ill-alone. ingly apparent that if war is too the notion that foreign coun-but resigned from the firm while he
thing of the past tries contain people very much was on leave.
Thongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAY 1. 1981.
TEACHERS AND WAR.
Mr. Gordon was a member
enne into contact with a
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WHE
sou packing. Every now and again there occurs a murder which for sone special reason really shocked It is quite probable that under the public conscience. This
them, and undoubtedly must beente 2
the Cermak regime the Capone or between nation and natlun, some like ourselves--these are some of
Victim of an neckdent in Queen's ganisation will have to mind te have influenced many thousands of
Buti votes during the election. thing more than the movements the means by which propaganda Road East yesterday, Chung Lin (1) "p's and q's" a little more.
What is more, the control hy in the direvalon of disarmament of the kind which made the fast with one eye seriously injured through be wiped out.
was admitted into hospital yesterday, the things he stands for will not
However great armed police was so strict that the will be necessary. Indeed, di- war passible will fall flat when being struck down when a long pole reformer Cermak may be and citizens were able to vote in almost armament sebemes in themselves the nest wie is threatened. The shoulder
which he was rarrying astride his there is no suggestion that he is complete safety. The word had ap
based on percentages, are in no
truck. Repeting the giant in this respect the system parantly been given to the gangs. In sense a guarantee against armed school and college teachers of moving meter
ease to the police, the truck drivers much too wide and deep for him ters to "lay off." and perhaps a great opportunity said the man emerged without any eradicate in his four years of this we already see an inclination Conflicts; the nations are still left foglay have
of Capence towards flie civic ideal office. warning from the side walk. along these lines.
What
of 1933. will Very probably in relatively the same parition as
ix this? Capone "Tell her she's un idiot," said Mr.happen
The new Mayor is a Bohemian-- fow, with the added fact that.
Hamilton to the interpreter of the will be approached to behave what we should now call a Czecho- as time guns on, new forms of
Kowan Magistracy this morning as conventionally as possible, and stonkian-aged 57, who went to warfare are everywhere being per
when a woman hawker, who had been to influence all those over whom he the United States with his parents He has ranted a free licence by the Court. has power to follow the same line when only one year old. Techd. A recognition T
was charged with selling her wares of conduct. There will very nos made his way in Chicago from the facts does not, imply that disarma-
within the limits of the market Hisibly be a secret arrangement humblest beginning is first Worship pointed out to the woman sort of gentlemen's agréement-start was at peddling firewood, and ment is altogether, without value:
her foolishness in committing 14
he was successful in real it must eventually have a cumint;
brench of her lizer after she had that the lid shall be kept down as Inter
entate.
He went into polities ear tightly as possible on the grosser hren given assistance lative effect in diverting thought;
manifestations of organised crine ly, and became a power in the direction of peace rather than towards a concentration-
military and naval rivalry and | eompetition, But if war is either to
be rendered more remote or mate
CORRESPONDENCE.
Football Complaint.
[To The Editor of Hongkong
Telegraph.]
WOR
ne by the Court.
on the
It is old that while Cermak entera on his mayoralty in Republi- former. Mayor Walker, the Demo- can Chicago as a Democratic re- cratic chief of New York, finds its postion gravely threatened by He- publican and other elements, who have called on him to resign be cause of Taminany's corrupt regime. It is the old story of lease of cor- ruption
lasting too long. But just as we may be sure that the power of Tammany will not disappear from New York, whatever happens Lu Mayor Walker, so we may be sure that complete civic virtue will not suddenly descend on Chicago because "Big Bill" Thompson has been thrown out.
In sentencing a Chinese to three Sir, Enclosed please find my
The appent-will be that of loen south-west side of Chicago, backed eard and shall esteem it a great favour if you will kindly publish works hard labour for stealing a pair patriotism, and it will be a powerful by the big Bohemian vole. He was this letter in your valuable paper, lamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy and his followers. What is more the Cook County Board, which oflice of shoes from a cobbler's stall, Mr. appeal even, to people like Capone an alderman as long ago as 1912. and in 1922 was elected President of and to save since i shall come to this morning, remarked that the Capone will certainly be glad of| The point immediately.
defendant did not seem to have any such a true lasting as long as pos- ranks second in importance to that Last Saturday, a great many of luck as he was stated to have escaped sible. It has been at anxious de- of Mayor of Chienge. impossible, there must be a world-14 W21 down to the I.K.P.C.after having stolen shoes from the ende eliminating so muny of his wide revolution in public opinion, gronied for the sole purpose of wit-tall and again when he was sub-competitors, and he wants not only nessing the match between the sequently arrested by a district watch-
Capone will This will of necessity be a stradal Champions and the Rest of the man in the act of pawning the shoes. Prosperity but peace. procesa; it cannot eatne in a day. Colony, It raining rather only to be finally caught by a Sanitary not stir the beer wars into activity
again unless he is forced to do so." Doubtless based on this idea heavily no doubt, so the majority Inspector.
of us paid $1.10 for a little shelter were the recent remarks of the for witnessing the buntch, or
if TOW President of the National it were postposed, hoping that our I'nion of Teachers, Mr. Angus tickets would be good for the post- poned match. Many arrived just Roberts, when he asserted that when the 2nd Division match finish. the danger of war stil lies in itsed, bought their tickets and settled down for about five minutes, when after a conference it was decided of admiration" which still clings to postpone the match. Many of to it. A sound point was made us waited to hear something about whether the tickets would be good when it was added that teachers or not for the postponed match, for would not eradicate the willing it would only be fair to consider the ness to fight by merely describing tickets good.
I waited to see whether there the horrors of war. The response would be any announcement about of youth is apt to be that they can this matter in the papers bear what their fathers bore; the morning, but to my dismay there is greater the physical horror, the one, so I am forced to write thin and, through the medium of your greater the call upon growing esteemed paper, I hope I shall be strength and untried courage. I enlightened.Yours, etc.
A VICTIM. has been said that in the days when war mennt bundl-to-hand fighting, there WITH Homething (splendid about it, and we all know that in the Great War there were plenty of opportunities for chivalry, but it is coming to be. renlined
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JUVENILE CRIME IN KOWLOON.
BATCH OF LADS BEFORE THE COURT. Noticing an unusually largoj future warfare will not be war at number of juvenile offenders up- all; it will be ruthless slaughter pearing before him on breaches of regulations, Mr. by unseen foes. Despite all the the hawking
Hamilton at the Kowloon Magi- efforts in the direction of din
this morning remarked, armament, sceret researches are "Wh
What's this outbreak (
of youthful taking place in practically every crime? Is in because of May Day?" Altogether, nearly twenty country into new methode of killlada under the age of 16 were bo- ing. Lewisite, a polaon gas which fore the Court, the defendants in so burns its victima that they ordered to be canod.
the grant majority of cases being
"Hey, you! Don't spell my nama wid an
What we have just seen is a ges- ture to the world at large by the inhabitants of a great city, who are tired of being represented In the newspapers of the universe only by the exploits of the home-town gun-men. It will be interesting to see how far this spasm of civic pride take them.
PHIPPS Fascinated by
THINGS UNDER THE EARTH.
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This susceptibility to the sub- terranean has for hundreda of years boon fostered by "Diviners": that is persons who profesa to
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