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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22. 1931.
Institution, There is, of course, need for an entirely new and
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Inngkong a Rhanghat Hutele, .td. Incorporated in Hongkong. 5. Quren's Boat C, wnd Stubbe Hack
ment on curative Hines is possible.
Several years ago, the Government intonded to erect such an institu- tion on the heights near the top of Laichikok Hill, but dieultion in
DAY BY DAY
A TAX ON INNOCENT PLEASURES 13 A PREMIUM ON VICIOUS PLEASURES,
Macaulay.
The Empress of Russin arrived at Varer at noon on Monday.
A non-Chinese case of scarlet fever the way of site preparation were was notified from Kowloon yesterday, encountered. Then the 1925 crisia came; #Ince when the home sppears to have been in- definitely shelved, though
We believe very excellent plans of the proposed building and grounds are in existence.
The P. and O. s.x. Perim, front Shanghai, is due here on Friday at 6 p.m.
The Ben Line .s. Benrouch, from Singapore, is due here on the 26th
instant.
FRANCE & THE DEBTS HOLIDAY.
·By Brig. General E. L. SPEARS, C.B., M.C., C.B.E.'
THE APPEALS for sympathe-j being
TU. APRILA for
cause
one that gave county fou voiced by the Prime Minister embarked upon lavish public ex- and Mr. Baldwin in the House of penditure. France was aware that Commons were in strong contrast the German taxpayer was no more to the general volume of comment
burdened than either the French on her policy and attitude since or the British, and it seemed to her The point which needs xuvial
President Hoover's proposals were that much of Germany's suffering. made public.
Was psychological, due in fact to emphasis is that the possibilities of the existing institution are so from Vancouver via Japan ports and recently
The Empress of Asia in due bére Everything that France has done her people, being taught to ascribe to the "tribute" most of the is including the vole which we
in England lay at the given United as to be fair, neither to the Shanghai at 2 pm. to-morrow,
in the Chamber of door of world conditions. staff nor the inmates. An Asylum |
Deputies in support of the Govern-
to the French that the The forthcoming welling isment and authorising it to negotiate
It seemed should be a place where it is post announced
for the establishment sible to provide suftable occupa-Hurtow, of the Chinese Maritline been greeted in the Press by n
Customs, Lintin Station, to Michorus of disapproval.
create confidence, and that recent lion for the inmates and Eulalia Wong, of Macao.
developments In Germany, and encouragement for organised
Above all the question of the Gun- The case in which Chan Ming, alios It seems to have occurred to few. I toms Union with Austria, so dark- thinking. The general tendencying Kee, was charged with rape and these have not been vocal, that, ened the political horizon that con- In modern institutions of this concluded at the Criminal Sessions although a rich country to-day, idence, and therefore financial kind nowndays is to give the yesterday, when the jury returned a France, after going through a time stability, were Impossible.
ananimeras verdict of "Not Guilty." of extreme financial distress, has still burden of debt four times as
patients as free a life as is pos- sible, and to this end mental Institutions have developed into colonies of detached
coflages, Kardens. ete. The
Hongkong Asylum represents a striking and
ment,
of Mr. Lionel Alfred on the basis of America's offer, has first necessity conditions was to
was
great as that of the country she is assisting.
of
Nor has it occurred tu
the
nation like our Own,
of sound
This
framework of the
She holds that treaties and in- Falling from height of 30 feet
ternational understandings such as where he was oiling some shafting in the Royal Naval Yard, a coole, Lam
the Young Plan must be held to bo intangible and unalterable save by Kam chu, received fatal injuries, his body being later sent to the Publie | majority of our people that whereas the consent of all the signatories. Mortuary.
our public debt represents 40 per She believes, and indeed it is hard cent, of our total Budget, that of to see how we can hold a dissimilar A foki of the M. Y. Sun Company Germany, including reparations, view, that on any other basis inter- kumentable contrast to time con- lis bern reported to the police by unly amounts to 25 per cent. of hers, national law muat collapse. She is ditions. It mere closely re-Mr. Ying Shiu-ting, maniger, as VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED
having absconded with a
To put it on the lowest plane of not opposed to revision of treaties uf Fitna AT OUR STUBES ROAD GARAGE embles a prison than a mental $270.91 which he
sold to have self-interest, we are a European but she will not tolerate unilateral home, and, so far from life undercollected from the Yu Wa Yuca ashop. nation, and wisdom dictates that we revision,
should at least make an effort to This iden lies at the base of the | the prevailing conditions being
Internnt injuries were received by a ¦ understand the point of view of solution she suggested whereby helpful to the patients, we skruid motor driver, Wong Wah, of 3.] our ex-Ally.
Germany would continue to pay her imagine that precisely the Nuliah Road, Kowloon, when he fell.
from the bunk in, which ho
In the first place, as the political reparations and France will hand opposite effect is produced.
International Settlement. As a steeping last night. He was taken to leaders emphasised in the House back the whole sum to the Bank of
Commons, ເນ attituto
maintains the means of aggravating the mental the Kwong Wnb iluspital for treat-of condition of lunatics, we can con-
whose country has not been in Young Plan while giving Germany leeive of nothing likely to be more i Suffering from the effects of opium vaded for centuries, must differ relief.
The French suggestion that the paisaning, Ne Mol-ling, a woman, of widely from that of one in which Bank should be the sole judeo as effective than a sty In Song 161, Johnson Rond, was removed to the men of a single generation have kong's Asylon. This is all wrong, the Government Civil Hospital yester- twice seen their country invaded to which country should receive re- lief according to its needa la sen- of course, and possibly nobaly day. It is stated that she attempted and laid waste, their towns and sible enough. So long as help is to commit suicide, but her condition provinces lying helpless at the given for purely financial and not realises it more than those in is not serious.
merey of foreign saddlers.
for political reasons, by an inde charge of the institution. V-
To anyone Found in a scavenging lane at the
who realises what pendent authority, we should be over the mason, it is surely a pili-rear of Yu Wah Street, the body of a France war feeling immediately satisfied.
Hoover's proposals, able state of affairs that, in these jewly-born Chinese girl was removed prior to Mr.
America's fears for the immense to the Public Mortuary, while its her response must appear both sums she has invested in Germany days, the Colony should be so mother, residing at 17, Morrison Hill prompt and generous.
are comprehensible, but our concern heltind the Umes in the rare of Roul, who has born, arrested for The French have been facing a is for Europe as a whole. Our-rolo those who are mentally deficient.
dumping, has been taken to hospital.
peric of disappointment and dis- should be to help to heal the wounds quiet ever since their troops of Europe, and if we are to do this theyvaeuated the Rhine. The highest we must take into account the ap
othicials as well as the humblest | prehensions of France no less than junction of Des Voeux fond und Ive | citizens fondly imagined that that the broodinst auffering of Germany. House Street, an 18-year-old servant moment would mark the beginning girl of 62, Western Street rusived of a new era of trust and European concussion and was removed to the reconstruction. That hope has been Government Civil Hospital,
disappointed.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1983.
OUR ASYLUM.
In attempt to alight from Hongkong Hotel Bus while vehicle was still in motion at the
H may or may not come as a surprise by most perple to learn
Naval Fuel Policy. Int evinsial Janatics and
The fuel polley of the Admiralty Lordinmy cases share the satne
hua been the subject of kven debate ward în Hongkong's Asylum, au in naval and coal-producing circles Institution which enjoys but does in recent weeks, without making
Speeches tending An attempt to commit suicide was! not deserve the name of Mental | jol of difference to the attitude of
nade by a woman named Wong Shu- opinion grew in emphasis and In Hospital. Whether time fret was the technical netvisers. A dejtanam, of the Lok Loi Tin Boarding Kgressiveness in certain quarters Penerally known prior to the tion from South Wales, which at-louse, whilst she was travelling on across the Rhine. Hitlerism de- "Star" veloped, reparations, for the first inquiry into the death of one of tended en Mr. C. G. Ammon and the Meridian Star, of the
Ferry Company at 10.15 pas, last time, were alluded to as "tribute"
to
Infame
the innutes is wither here nor Admiralty experts at the beginning night. She jumped overboard
War Stud jumped are reared, but in an official document, and what is
the
known
MEET THE PERFECT. GUEST.
By ROBERT MAGILL.
NE of the most natounding phases of our prescut civilisa-
•
Nobody would dream of engag- Ing a butler without taking up his these aought-after guests shouldn't references, and I don't so why
be treated in the same way. As it is, I recently met the very deserving " case to whom I refor herewith.
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"This is to certify that Howard Chas attended my house in the capacity of guest, and gave every satisfaction. 1 found him sober at all events, to begin with-ex tremely obliging, apparently educal- ed, and dressed in a clean collar:
there; it is to be deplored none of the month was informed that no
spirit appeared to De change is contemplated. The ex-
Krowing
tlon is the way hostesses vio the less. It was gathered at the ports argue that, operationally, oil-ing Corporation has received the France, was being taught that all housce with young men whom they The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank- aplice. Germany, so it seemed to with each other to overcrowd their inquiry that in the one ward ofurners give higher speeds over a following wire from its London Office: obligations and burdens resulting don't know and fill them with food righteen patients, exactly half great radius of action and easier"The J. F. Schroder Bank, Bremen from the War were intolerable, and and drink. Were criminal lunatics, some having | supply of fuel to furnaces; which has closed its doors, is not in
Heaven knows why they want any way connected with either the must somehow be got rid of. been convicted for murder and technically. vil hus a grenter Arme of J. Henry Schroder, London. az
these young men, but they do. They steal their names and their sentences of death commat-calorific value, requires less space, the J. II. Schroeder Banking Corpors, France watched grimly, and re-even
tion, of New York."
ceived with cold scepticism com-addresses from each other, yet the ed to life imprisonment. Such a and can be used to correct a list;
plainants from Germany that the paly qualifications these young men one was the man who ran zuck, coul-firing would mean an increase plies. At a push, coal oil could be internal situation was becoming in. have are a dress suit and an in- and it was given in evidence that of about 300 in the crew of a battle produced to-day at a cost very little creasingly unsatisfactory. It scem- selent manner of sneering at the
OR foreign greater than that of the natural ed to her that that situation was to arrangements, which is as near as . jhe had, during his detention, had cruiser; dependence
sources for supply is a serious dis-ol. When experiments have re-a considerable extent the direct re- they can get to being smart. several fights with other patients.ability, but the military advantages sulted in a perfecting of the pro-stilt of speeches made in the highest Indeed, a wardmaster who was
outweigh the strategicni divad- cesses, one may be sure that the quarters. tached in the eye by this man vantages. The other alde contend Admiralty will not be backward in of the Reich appeal to France as Neither did the financial plight has little likelihood of regaining that reversion to coul is demanded stimulating commercialisation. his sight.
by the experience of the war. Cap. Farts like these go to show how tain Bernard Acworth in his recent uttterly unsatisfactory conditions book says that the Renowns were are in the Asylum. As in the unfit to meet their coal-burning adversaries, the Marlborough was Lease of Victoria Gaol, also, they saved at Jutland by her coal- demonstrate the risks to which the bunkers, and lost only two knots in staff is exposed by reason both of speed though torpedoed; at the adenoucy of the premises Falkianda it took 90 minutes longer than the and the impossibility of segregat to sink the Gneisenau ing the worst cases. The existing Scharnhorst, because the former's Asylum cannot be described ather-bunkers were full and the Scharn. wise than as a disgrace to the horat's were half-empty. The of Colony. It purports to provide ficial history of the 1917-18 naval Accommodation for about forty nesses in the. British battle-cruiser campaign exposes technical weąk- inmates, but there is a constant flect which are entirely attributed coming and going, there being to the fact that the vessels were well over two hundred admissions oil-burgers. It is nino argued that in the course of a year. in the equal range of action can be obtain- past, its defieloncles have been ed for an coal-burning man-of-war explained by statements that it is if due regard is paid to our wealth of fuelling bases. To the layman, intended to be used merely an a
there seems a great deal to be said temporary abode for the mentally for the views of both parties to the inflicted, pending their transfer to controversy. The menace of a nava Europe or Canton. But the fact fuel supply situated in foreign lande remains that it is usually full to is one which cannot be contemplated the limits of Its accommodation. with equanimity. Economically, Worst of all, however, in the the change would give a much need- mixing of criminals of homicidaled fillip to the British coal industry. tendencies with ordinary woak-In the last analysis, however, we are forced to the conclusion that, tha minded patients, and We aro
dangers are exaggerated. The pro- heartily at one with the jury cosses for converting coal into ell, which had recommended the fuel have been improved en remark. separation of the two classes. ably, that Britain may in the The point crises, however, whether near futura be· Independent. that oraible. In the present foreign sources for ita haval sup
Annie she could go with us to
"For all I know he may be honest, although this does not matter very much. He occasionally used his own matches, did not fhia cigarette case from my box, and not once did he throw cigarette end behind the gas-stove.
"When the sandwiches run low, on his own initiative he offered to fatch some more:
"He assisted to shift the chairs, and he consistently danced once out of every four times with the married ladies In the company, thus enabling their husbands to have a'. good time with the girls without fear of comment.
"When it was pointed out to him that a certain deaf old gout was. not having an vary, rollicking time, he allowed the said D.O.G. to palk to him for a quarter of an hour about Verdi's 'Il Trovatore, without disclosing the fact that he thought Trovatore was an outsidor in this year's Derby.
He lavery intelligent. When his host overturned a glass of Bur gundy on to the tablecloth thinwöh | dorful young man got on big kind legs and apologised to his hostelu, saying that he himself Had done i wherpiroon all she could
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