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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931.
TRAC
A REGRETTABLE FEATURE.
ary standards of decent behaviour. If the usual conduct of Chinese studenta in times of unrest repre- senta their conception of liberty and democracy. It badly needs correct- Ing. Happily. has been demons- trated in the last few days that there are sections of the Chinese community which are prepared to stand by authority and to render such aid as fies in their power, but the fact remains that these are the few, not the many. Moreover, they run risks in playing the game-a circumstance which in itself shows the extent of the lawless spirit in
our midst.
Now that the arm of authority has been strengthened by emergency powers, we hope to see all offendere
con-
sternly handled by our magistrates. Imprisonment has few terrors for rame of these low-breakers and, in any case, merely ulds to the gestion in our prisons. Flogging is likely to be much more effectual, and there should be no compunction in imposing it where the nature of the offence warrants severity.
the
Gandhi's Personality,
Mon are
measures,
nations
a
DAY BY DAY
EVERY GREAT BOOK IS AN ACTION, AND EVERY CREAT ACTION IS A BOOK. ----Luther,
掌
G.B.S.'s Paper Courtship. By ROBERT LYND.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has promoted Dr. J. T. Smalley, Medical Officer, Hongkong: TF a novelist had invented the longer wholly dependent on Ellen tu Senior Medical Officer.
lettera-contained in "Ellen Terry for his intimate unbosom-
which
Mr. Shaw warns his renders not Prof. W. I. Gerrard, President of Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Coringa."
these letters too. holo interpret is published tu-dny, the Hongkong University Medical respondence" (Constable. £5. Gs.), Society, will address the society on the subject of "Memorable Periods in would have strained the credulity literally, or to judge them "accor-
readers.
ding to the code of manners which the Advance of Medicino" on Friday, of most of his
Here we have a 30 years' cor-regulate polite letter-writing in October 2, in the Union Assembly
WO Hall at 8.30 p.m.
respondence between a writer of cathedral country towns." genius and a woman of genius were both comedians." he explains Au Lai, woman operative at the who lived within a bus-ride of each "ench acting as audience to the Tai Wah Knitting Factory at Kawi-on other in London, who addressed other, and each desiring to picass nmuse the other without City Ronil, was taken to the Kwong each other in terms of the most and Wah Hospital yesterday in a serious ardent affection, and who, never ulterior motives or what match- condition resulting from an accident theless, passed year after year of making mothers call intentions."
Mr. in which her arms was caught in this paper courtship" (in Explaning machine.
Mr. Shaw is no Romeo pas-
Shaw's phrase) without meeting, alonately addressing a Jullet when Ellen Terry was 44 years old he apologises for the shape of his The following appointments havel been made by the Secretary of and Mr. Shaw, eight years young-cars:
They are a Shaw speciality," State for the Colonies during Julyer when the correspondener begun. They stick struktht out like the and August: Mr. N. H. France, as
doors of a triptych, and 1 was born Reader in History, Hongkong, and
with them full size, so that on Miss M. E. Dow, Miss C. McNovin, This was in 1892, and they had windy days my nurse had to hold and Miss L. C. Mallows, all as been exchanging letters for four me by the waistband to prevent
Nursing Sisters, Hongkong.
Shaw Pictures Himself.
years when Mr. Shaw proposed to
Mr. Denis H. Hazell, Eastern Diree-call on her and read Candids toy being blown away when the
wind caught them. tor of William Syken. Ltd., is leaving her. "You will find me." be wrote, Similarly, when Ellen Terry
disagreeably, cruel-looking. ends a letter: for Shanghai on the President Hoover"u
After a short siny middle-aged Irishman with a red Dear fellow, Good-bye, on each this afternoon. in Shanghai, Mr. Hazell expects to go beard." Ellen Terry unexpected of your Angers, good-bye, and on Curto Tientsin to play some special tennisly replied: "I think I'd rather the end of your little nose, gonil-
matches there. Mr. Hazell expects to never meet youn the flesh. You be; return to Hongkong about the end of are such a Great Dear as you are!" November.
The motor ship Kanan Maru, which i
dusly ide it out.
LOCAL ESTATES.
on
of
MR. A. E. PROUST AND MR. A. SUTHERLAND.
estate
Sworn
I safil for three days than liked me "poppot" and send him a Now
(only) for 300,000,000,000,000,000 Uning her pleasure in his
Up
me
main regret is that the Chinese masses cannot be relied upon to du
Accepting the situation, Mr. Shaw
Give my love to every bit of you, right thing by upholding
wrote:
Especially the dear old cars. authority in the crises. In con-arrived in Hongkong yesterday morn
Very well, you shan't meet me
blind: going trast to this was the
splendidlying from Dairen, reported that after in the flesh if you'd rather not.r, when she thinks she may be I wonder if I'm going to be courageous act of n Chinese woman encountered a storm. Another motor ing in that. Did you ever meet blind.... You would come and lenying that port on September 22 she There is something deeply touch- who rescued a Japanese baby from ship, the Santon Maru, which arrived a man who could hear mecting and see me then, my dear, wouldn't in port at noon yesterday, reported knowing? Perhaps you're right; you? I would ask you to come a mob which was venting its fury that she had encountered a typhoon Oscar Wilde said of me: “AB CX and He to me then and tell me that mother. Incl-off Grent River Mouth, but successful-cellent man: he has no enemies: you love me. You have an car for on the father and
and none of his friends like him, you
music and could make your voice dents such as these deserve
...As
to king, you like your sound sincere. recognition; the pity is that they
newspaper, and despise it. I had ог calls Mr. Show "darling" _and" are so few and far between.
rather you remembered one thing
the Year hug:"
is un actress
[yours.
friendship and develion. A month later he commends her And, sincere as Mr. Show's dovo- for "keeping out of his reach" be-tion in, ho is no love-racked Kente Fanny Brawns when still stronger than The inte Mr. Edward Alfred cause of the fatal fascination he addressing
He tolls he writes to Ellen Terry:. gigantic died at No. 14, Hyile Park Gate, he to the time I was 29. actual-wind in the ferns, which must be
Probst, retired merchant, who exercises over women. Machinery,
I can hear a distant noise like One of the most regrettable though it has become, yields before London, on April 9, 1931, left locally twenty-nine, I was too shabby stirring up your pores as they features of the anti-Japanese dis- the power of personality. Mahatma estate worth $262,900, while net tarbances, in various parts of the Gandhi, the Nationalist leader of personalty at Home amounts to for any woman to tolerate me. I open and straighten to take in the stalked about in a decaying green arst delicate draught of spring. cost, cuffs trimmed with the Oh, if I were in Margate, I would Colony has been the lamentable lack india, illustrates this. Small, thin, 278,260 38.
Re-austing of certified cops af selssors, terrible boots, and so on. squeeze them all shut again with of public spirit shown by the Chi-brown, wizened by his steadfast probate of the will has been grant got job to do and bought
adherence to an ideal he has kepted to Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, of a suit of clothes with the
pro-and, again;
one mighty embrace. Again and again, the whole world watching him. Megara. Johnson, Stokea and Man-ce
coeds. A lady immediately invit
And now I must do some work. when mobs were either
waiting for his moves, wondering ter, who is attorney for the widowed me to tea; threw her
to teap
arms But to austain me in it--keep on (sauiting helpless Japanese or at-what an effect they will have
Alice Probst, of Hyde Park Gate, round me. and said she adored Javing me (if you ever did). O my
permitted her to adore, be- Ellenest--love me hard, love For months executrix, and Rear Admiral F. lacking their promises, the crowds world relationships.
C. Brown, C.B., C.M.G., B.N., icing intensely curious on the sub- standing by were found not only all
wondered #f
tired, No. 21, Suppaa Hill Terrace, ject. Never having regarded soft, and deep, and sweet, and for
my ever and ever and ever. unwilling to render assistance, but would go to England to attem Croydon, Surrey, and Mr. F. self as an attractive man, I Was These Allen, Stanford Place, Faringdon, surprised: Int 1 kept up appear
Preoccupation of Art. to many instances they egged the the round table conference.
that nations were not so much concerned Berks; executora.
unces successfully. Since fenilera on, themselves keeping at over the absence or presence
Bequests are of a family nature. time, whenever I have beene, she inspired by devotion and mutual
Jeft
Those letters, however, though This is not a new other lenders,
Hongkong a safe distance.
at alone in a room with. a female, Their mission, ap $41,000, with net personally
inhas invariably thrown her arms attraction, are only to a smail ex- phenomenon, admittedly. for it has parently, could have been delegated England and Scotland worth £14,-round me and declared she adored tent the billets-doux of an extra- repeatedly been seen in times of to others with little inconvenience. 148 J, Bd. was left by the late Mr. mett fa fate: Therefore beware ordinary man and an extraordin stress and trouble, It is, however, But every man has seen the neces- Alexander Sutherland. retired If you allow yourself to be left jury woman. The theatro especi- mo-ally the conflict between the fenty none the less to be deplored on that sity for the presence of Mahatma Chinese Customs Officer, late of alone with me for a single
No. 8, St. Catherine's Place. Edin-mont, you will certainly throw Irving theatre and the Ibsen and Personal attraction, rich- account. The pity is that
no-one Gandhi.
surgh, Scotland, who died at your arms round me and declare Shaw drama-occupies more space In them than the exaggerations of you ndore me. seems to possess sufficient influence ness of natural talents are not the Edinburgh on August 25, 1930.
affection. Still, it is as a more rause of his tremendous influence. Re-sealing of testament-testu-)
Game of Flirtation.
or less artificial comedy of court- or authority to combat this evil it may be summed up in fewermenter of ampuhile has been
ship that they are most interest- effectually. Now that a state of words. A far-sighted, deep seated granted to Mr. M. H. Turner, of How wholeheartedly Mr. Shaw ing. And when the comedy was
has been.
to declarei, loyalty
conviction. The Messrs. Deacons, who is attorney and Ellen Terry threw themselves over Ellen Terry wrote what may emergency
for the widow, Christina Suther-into the game of "delicious firta-be regarded as a postscript to it onlookers will have to be more eir-magnetism of his personality, built
land, of St. Catherine's Place, the lion" (again Mr. Shaw's phrase) in a letter that ended. on his unfaltering devotion to what executrix, and Mr. G. D. Sather-may be gathered from the fact eumspect, since they are liable to be enlled upon to assist in the pre- he believes is right and wise, will land, son, Secretary to the Orlen that, during 1896 they wrote
Badoubtedly have
in-tal Government Security Life In each other every four days, dur- servation of pence, and if they re-
Company, of Bombay, ing 1897 every three days, during fluence. It is
surance fuse, they will suffer the full penal-'
India, the executor.
1898 every 12 days. Then, writes unting that по
The will contains family be- Mr. Shaw in a note, "in 1928 Shaw ties of the law.
build up this type of personality,
quests.
married and was presumably no It is obvious, of course, that the or gain such a wide influence, if he Chinese of Hongkong would not sets out to do it for his own per have been worked up into the state sonal advance. He cannot make up of foolish frenzy which so many of his mind that he is going to do them have displayed had it not been something significant. He has to forget himself entirely by losing for the presence in the Colony of himself in some great principle. agitators. Here again we encoun-Whether Gandhi's position is the fer a factor which has constantly to wisest one is not the point. It lo be reckoned with when trouble his self-annihilation for the purpose breaks out. These agitators are for promoting right as he sees it nothing but cowardly sæoundron, that astonishes the world. When- who usually make sure of keeping ever a people have needed a lender, one has always appeared, ever since mut of harm's way when things the days when Moses led begin to get serious. Instances children of Israel through have been encountered in which they wilderness. A good many of them make tools of young strect urcians have had to gird themselves with by faducing them to go in gangs to suck cloths and ashes, in one way or another, which is almost the Japanese shops U to
Chinese style that India's chieftain has establishments selling Japanese adopted. But it is a fairly safe pre- goods, and then atand in theletion that none of the old leaders background whispering slogans to has exerted as much personal those immediately in front. with magnetism as the unassuming Hitle the result that the youngsters swell old man from the East. the chorus at the top of their voices and in the excitement take a lend- ing part in the demonstrations. It would be difficult to iniagine conduct more despicable than this. But theso agitators will stoop to any- thing Students have also figured In the outrages which have been committed, just as they have now seen fit to make a mungjerong attack in Nanking orIT DIDN Falg. Here we encounter Young China at its worst, and we may be forgiven
rather
ils
worth
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to
You are a great man.
You are a
You are a
You are
л
sily Ang
(That's envy, isn't it?)
Poor Charlo
Your ownest Ellen. My love to Charlotte and her husband. "Charlotte" being Mrs.
Shaw.
And, years before this, Mr. Shaw had explained his attitude to love in a letter declaring that:
I make it a habit, whon I got restless over my work, to seize the nearest woman and
breath out of her atzo all the
adding:
It is not the small things that women miss in me, but the things. My pockets are
full
of the
alw
small change of love-
making; but It is magic money.
not real money. Mrs. Wobb, who woman. is a remarkably shrewd
from the explains her freedom fascination to which she sees all the others succumb by saying,
"You cannot fall
in love with 1
aprite
In
sprite; and Shaw Auch matters, not a real person."
"Love," he assu
he assurce Ellen Terry. is only diversion and recreation to me.
"It
in this candid letter that he concludes with the ash- tence: "I love you soulfully and bodyfully, properly and improper- y, avery way that a woman can be loved."
A large gathering of members and friends assembled at the University Union hall yesterday afternoon, when a tea party was held in honour of Mr. A: B. Buleiman, who is leaving for Malaya noon. Mr. K. T. Loke, Chair- man of the Union, presided. During the course of the afternoon, speeches were made referring to Mr. Rulol- man's many activities in the Univer sity both on and off, the' sporta Beld, and also regretting his departure and within làm bàn với If Elly man was presented wiidi la mailver cigarette case, from, the hockey, MEd football tamme of the Union, fats,
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