THE BOOKSHELF
THE SINO-JAPANESE PUZZLE
THE DEBACLE OF
LANGISM
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 20. 1932.
POLICE RESERVE
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK
VALUE OF SPORT
P
STIRRING ADDRESS GIVEN TO ATHLETES
The Eastern Athletic Association
Saturday
Orders by the Ion, Mr. T. H. King. At Home" was held on to
Inspector General of Police, state:
(Continued from Page 1.) Chinn, and, upon his return Australia, will make important representations to the Federal authorities regarding the matter. He is convinced that the appoint- mont of a trade representative in Hongkong is a vital necessity.
TRADE WITH EAST.
Letter Of Appreciation.
I
night at the Chinese Y.M.C.A, before
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3-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-10.80 p.m. European Programme.
7
p.m. Stock
Quotations, Mall
Notice, etc.
7.3-7.30 p.m. A Programme of
Variety.
Victor records,
"The Chinese-Japanese Puzzle," by Dr. Neville Whymant (Messrs.
a large gathering. This club, which TALK ON THE Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, 2.
was founded four years ago with a
DR. JOSE RIZAL. Gd, net.) is a litle book which is
The following letter has been re- membership of 50, can now boast of Hikely to meet with a mixed recep-
four hundred members. tion. The author, formerly Pro
ceived by the Inspector General of Police from The Honourable, The The prizes won in the Tennis and Colonial Secretary and is published rated during the evening, a concert
Pong competitions were fessor of Oriental Classics and,
uis Mythology in Tokyo Universities,
for Information of all officers, con- Assistant in Chinese and Japanese
eerned:"I am directed to inform being given after the presentation of The Hon. Mr. McPhee is accom- you that in view of the improvement boxing,
Awards,
kilful exhibition of at Oxford, and Lecturer in Chinese
cinematograph In the general situation His Excellency and Japanese in the University ofpanied on his present trip hy two
Melbourne business the Officer Administering the Govern
performance and musical item were London, has essayed a big tank in prominent presenting, within the limits of men, Messrs. T. S. Nettlefold and ment intends to cancel the proclama-included in the programme. Master September, Fred Abraham, the talented young 180 pages, a study of the origins, C. Le-Flastrier. Mr. Le Flastrier tion insured on the 27th. causes and effects of the recent is a prominent Victorian patents 1931, calling out for active service the violinist, delighted the audience with
Force.
rume first class solos and was loudly applauded for his fine performance. to request you to convey to the conflict between China and Japan. attorney, whose firm has for years Hongkong Police Reserve He is, however, well equipped for heen represented in Hongkong by officers and men of the Police Reser
Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and
the high appreciation in which the the undertaking and he gives us a
Master. Mr. Nettlefeld is a mem- Gavernment holds the book which is well worth ponder ber of the executive of the Austrn-eilleient service to the cause of pence rendy and
ing over.
of Manufactures and good order in the Colony the lian Chamber Analysing the history of Chinese and Japanese peopics, the and is also a member of the this Force provides," author in at pains to point out the, Melbourne City Council. error of considering present trou-
Upon his return to Australia, blen 3г arising from present Mr. Nettlefold will submit a corn- Ile dives into the histori prehensive report in the Chamber al background, emphasises the of Manufactures оп the possi- different traits of the two peoples hilities of an enlarged Australian and presents to the render a fa- i trado with the East. cinating comparative study in a- in not tional paychology,
chsen.
possible within the space at our disposal to follow the author through his reading of history, or to give anything like a comprehen sive summary of his conclusions. Suffice it to say, that Dr. Whymont, though critical of both countries, particularly no of Japan and her polleles, is constructive in his criticism. Of China, he says that she lacks at the moment the man who will be strong enough to pull together all the best qualities the hns, and hold them aloft for the nation to see. "But that she has falled in this great emergency
she will fail no guarantee that again, or that she has lost those very qualities which have brought her out of similar situations be- fore. She now needs helps: she; will either go forward to greater glory than she has yel nchleyed. or ahe will remaja submerged for some time longer, continue to be
INTERNAL PROBLEMS. "Trading conditions in Aus- tralla to-day," said Mr. Nettlefold, "ure suffering from the same de- pression that is influencing the whole work! Although the political situation has improved considerably with the dismissal of the Lang administration in N.S.W.. political devices will not help us
much until the price of Au tralin's primary products, such is wool and wheat, return to normal. w ean, and will, contral our internal difficulties, but unt|] the economic position of the world returns to normund, our attempts at atabilisation must, to
# certain extent, be influenced largely by external instability, over which We have no control.
monwealth. Since the return of
|
Chinese Company.
that
N. C. Oя. Chhak The following have passed the N. Ca course of in- struction in Police Duties:-Sub In- spector Chow U Ting, Crown Sergeant 113 David Loie, Crown Sergeant R15 Os Young King Heng, Crown Ser- geant R18 Hwang Hon Yeh. Crown Setgrant R25 Thui Kwing Kong, Lance Sergeant R66 Cheng Shuk Kit and Laner Sergeant 167 Chow Ching
Chiu.
The proceedings were presided over by Mr. J. D. Bunh.
Orchestral-Weary River
Orchestral-Deep Night
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yanker
21868.
Seng- Faded Bummser Love
Hylvia Froom (Comedienne} 22×18. Organ SoloCarolina's Calling Me
Jesse Crawford 22001.
Vietor Minstrels 3506).
rean Bolo-Call me Darling Choms-Minstrel Abow of 1029
Mr. Ho Iu, Compradore of the Mercantile Hank, and Mr. Chatyou didn't know the Muse
of Ngan-ting, the National City Bank, were each presented with a scroll for the deep interest which they have taken in the development of the Eastern Athletic Association. A special cup was presented to Mr. Lam Wing-yan by the committee for his financial support during the past three years.
Value Of Sport.
7.30-8 p.m. From the Studio. wom Brkes & Co.) will give a talk on Mr. Denia 1. Hazel (Eantern Director of The All England Champlonas at Wlan-
bledon."
Before calling on Mr. Chow Ping- un, a cousin of Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau,port." to distribute the prizes for the Ping- Pung and Tennis tournaments, Mr. Bush apoke nas follows:
and
As chairman of this very pleasant Training Course-Part #1-All re-
gathering, it affords me much pleasure eruits will attend at the Chinese Com-to any a few words on Youth pany's Headquarters on Tuesday. Sport. For one thing. It is pleasing June 21st, at 5.389 p.m. for instruction, to note that sports have taken such
Revolver Practice, Revolver prae-
A good hold of the imagination of tice will be carried out by members of
Young Chinu tolay. This keenness the Company on the Kennedy Rund
in aporta is exprelnily noticeable in 30 pan. umler Sub inspector A. 1. Range on Wednesday, June 22nd, at
recent years and what a good sign of the age in which old and young Hopkins. All members who have realize what it is to seek the outdoor been detailed will assembles
life in motoring, tennis, swimming. Range at that time,
and even yachting.
at the
Training Course-l'art 1.-A|| re- cruits of the Chinese Company will at- tend Central Police Station for Sqand Drill on
Thursday, June 23rd, 5.30 p.m.
11t
al
Indian Company. Inspection Parade.-All ranks the Indian Company will parnole ht TURNED CORNER.
Central Police Station on Wednesday, "Victoria is fortunate, inasmuch June 28th, for a general inspection of as she has not been hit as severely equipment efc, by the Company Coni- prey to all kinds of random politi. as the other States of the Com-Dressely to Un at 10 pm, sharp. Dress-White Uniform, Cap with White Cover, Belt, Truncheon, Whistle, and en) theories which are but half the Lyons Nationalist Government Armlet with Badge. digested, and constitute a growing Inst September, the trade figures possession of uniform will attend in menace to the peace and ease of for Vietorin show an increase of mufti the whole world."
over thirty per cent. While the The author is, not without rea-
Lang administration was in power up in arms against the in N.S.W., on unending stream of Bon, "pretty-pretty" writers on Japan who have made a business of fool.apital Rowed from that State into ing their renders
ever since the country has been accessible to the dilettante Beribbler. He. косв beneath the surface, gets down to essentials and is unsparing in his criticism. Japan, he says, has a tendency shown indecision and to adopt changes without a pre- liminary trial of their fitness for her people. "She is predisposed to the spectacular, the aggressive, and too ready to be deceived by the anything showy. But with development of a critical faculty. and the growth of an international spirit to take the place of exaggerated nationalism. Japan will become one of the most in portant factors in world relation- ships."
in
On the whole, a book which is moat thought-provoking, but one which will assuredly favour amongst the Japanese.
find
no
Vletoria, and eventually investors bad the greatest dimeulty in find- ing an outlet for their money.
"Australin has quite definitely turned the corner, but whether she progresses beyond that is entirely dependant on world conditions and the rise in the price of her primary products."
BROTHERS FINED FOR ASSAULT
SEQUEL TO KOWLOON
BUS INCIDENT
Those not in
My purpose within the few moments int my disposal is to dwell on
the | three-fold object in sports: the tench Us many playing fields can useful things that cannot be got any- where else.
First, games obviously help to keep us shysically fit: without the playing fields no nation can expect to Im- prove the physical development and health of its boys and girls.! Ganies ennstitute one of the effective means mobilizing and directing the youth- fal ene
of any nation energy
youth should learn to
of
Thic
ap-
see the full meaning of games,
on
how they teach them to "keep a stiff No member may be absent upper Bp" when they are beaten and from this parade without leave from | not to become "swollen-headed"
with success. Above all, keep the Company Commander, The Equip ment Olleer will make it a point of trying, whether at work or at play. The financial and moral depression of these difficult times is due to the being present. Recruits will attend.
undue impatience of this speed-mad
Flying Squad.
The fluent instructional patrol of the month of the Hongkong Section will take place on Friday, June 24th, All members must attend. will fall in at Central Police Station at 5.15 pan. sharp.
Members
R430 J. C. L.
atre,
Do your bent in the playing fields and leave the result and the verdict La the umpire or judge. No man can te strong in combut or any form of sports onless his heart is right and in the right order for work.
Sportsmanship.
Reserve Emergency Unit.
This brings me to the second ob- Leave Constable Wong has been granted 6 monthsjective in sports. In moral as well as in physical exercises, the heart leave of absence from the Colony, as must be right. Keep before yourself from 20tis, June 1932.
always the
genuina spirit of Defendu Class-The weekly defen-sportsmanship. Never deviate for a du class will be held in the Gymnasium mament from the high standard and Bi Central Police Station on Friday, uphold the right principle in work ar June 24th, at 530 p.ru.
play at all costs. If this ideal can 1 ha inbred in the youth of Chinn, the evil of corruption in officialdon will be mitigated in time.
Kit-All members who have not re- turned their steel helmets must do so at once. As there will be a kit in- spertion shortly, all members are re- quested to see that their kit is com-
(Sgd) D. 1 King.
D. S. P. (R)
An altercation outside the Star | plote. Ferry Wharf yesterday had a sequel at the Kowloon Magistracy, before Mr. Fraser this morning. when two Brothers, Chan Man-foo and Chan Man-fook, were charged In "Lone Isle," by E. Charles with assaulting a
man named Vivian (Ward, Lock, and Co., Lon- | Chan Wing-tai. don; 38. 6d. net.) we have a strong
LIGHT FICTION,
were
atory, full of exciting situations, Inspector Elaton, who DTO-
parties of the type which has made thesecuted, said the author o deservedly popular. It known to one another. Yesterday, is a pearl fishery atory, with my the complainant met the defen- Atery encountered at almost every dants near the bus stop and he turn, and there is a inost Sur-alleged that they assaulted him. prising denonement. A
Defendants slated drawn-out in parts, the tale is, plainant pulled them out of a bus none the less, one which will hold, and assaulted them. They retaliat- the render's interest to the end. ed, but did not commence the as-
Miss LG. Moberly continues to sault. give us vivid novels, written with charm and ability. In "A Mystery
has ag
romance.
little
that com-
appeared to him that the com- plainant got all he deserved.
con-
His Worship snid if that were Chain" (Ward, Lock and Co.) she the case, he did not think the de- main character a foreign fendants were solely to blume. woman who poses as a great phil-! If a man was pulled out of a bus anthroplat but who, under enver when he was in a hurry, he was of her social netivities, is involved bound to be nasty about it. It In many shady matters. How she gains power and influence over others is told In a most interesting Inspector Elaton pointed out story, which is relieved by a double that the assault was more serious than the provocation warranted. Another of Miss Moberly's The defendants did not merely as- novels, by the same publishers, issault the complainant, but "Rosamond's Ordonl." This is the tinued doing so until they were story of a girl who, on the death stopped by the police. of her benefactor, learns that she was not, na she supposed, his daughter. but an adopted child. But she had culture none the less, and the story tells how she graced the new social position into which She entered, rising above the dif- cities and finding eventual hap- pless. There is plenty of excite- meit, leavened with clean, whole- Bom Bontiment.
"THE COUNTRYMAN”
Both parties were bound over. and defendants were fined $1 each.
Poet Laureate, who writes that he prefers it to any other periodical, and always reads it through with
delight.
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Then the third objective in sporta in the team spirit-concentration and co-ordination of efforts of all the members within the group Give your best for the good of the whole. self into the many. Submerge the self Only through co-operation and closest understanding of all the paris, can you aim to get the team going strong- you know how ly and smoothly. If
playing well in the tu co-operate fields, you will acquire the fine per- ception of how to compete, put every ounce of your energy into the game of life and take up the burden of responsibility for your country.
Out of thin third objective in sports emerges the highest life-ideal, less namely the pure, unselfish, efficient and consecrated life, life Laned Plato's conception of the trye, good and beautiful.
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There is really a fourth objective, too: and that is to expand into the Christian philosophy of love and per feet harmony for Humanity.
COMMUNIST PLOT.
A STORY OF INTRIGUE IN. KOREA RELEASED
8 p.m. Local Time & Weather Ite
8.1-8.45 p.m. Ʌ Programme of Victor records. chorus-La Traviata-Chorses
(Verdi Chorie-La Travista-Choru
(Vezi Hong-Thai-Lave Has Long been a Virtue Seng-This--Morrer Fong
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Gypalem
Metrolitan Opera Chorus 4103.
(hiasennet)
(Massenet)
Maria Jeritan (Sopran) 1214, Song -Tralain-Thy Homes in Fair Provence
(Verdi)
Giuseppe De Lues (Baritone) 188G,
(Wagner) Orchestral-Lohengriti ---Prelude
Philadelphia Bymphony Grehesten directed by Lepold Blokowaki 6791. Vocal GemTire of Hofman" (Ofenbach) Vocal Genis-"Mignon” (Thomas)
Victor Opera Company 13076. Song-Africana-Uh, Paradise (Meyerbrer). Sense-Martha-Like a Dream (Fintow)
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor) 7109. 8.45-9 p.m. From the Studio.
A return on "The Life of Doctor, June Rizal“ by Mr. W. 1. Watson,
9-10 p.m. From the Studio.
Dance Selectlomm
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Roma Ponsells (Soprano) 1098.
Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone) 1172. Plano Sulo-Walts in A Flat Major (Chopin) Heraet Rachmaninoff 1215.
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BETH BERI
NOTED DANCER COMING TO THE KING'S
According to 1177 announcement made by the management of the King's Theatre, Hongkong theatre- goers will soon have the privilege of seeing Miss Beth Beri, well- known musical comedy artiste, in a programme of dance specialities.
Miss Beri has been featured in Tokyo, June 19.
leading musical productions in The ban has been lifted from both New York and London where Press publication of information her work has received the extreme- regarding the Communist intriguely nudatory comment of the cri- in Korea which was unearthed on tice. She is at present making a of the Orient including April 16 last.
tour
ar-was
The details as given out by the Shanghal, Hongkong and Manila in her itinerary. According to ad- authorities are as follows:
Six Korean Communists smug-vance information received from gled themselves into Saishin, Korea, Shanghai her engagement there given enthusiastic reg- from Vladivostock, but were According to the Rotary Club rested and committed for trial. ponse.
Misa Berl's repertoire includes The gang was led by a man Íseveral dance numbers originated one for everybody to apenk at, the bulletin, to-morrow's meeting will be The trial opens on the 21st inst. subjects being "general conversation, named Yun Hak, who was acting by herself and her unique beauty the weather, tram and ferry gossip, under orders from the Vladivostock and grace pasuro her of unlimited Mr. J.W. Robertson Scott, its the latest scandal. etc.”
Ogpu, and planned to blow up the succoss wherever sho appears. editor, who not unknown in the
Her engagement at the King's railway bridge over the Yalu River Fur East, has made a tremendous The Ste Yap Steamship Company and the railway tracks, with a Theatre, commencing Sunday, Buccess of this independent rural was charged before the Hon Comdr. view to disturbing the Japanese June 26th, will be in conjunction organ. Not only is it fall of In Ifole, at the Marine Court this "Th Countryman." that unique terest to the nature-lover, but it morning, with having allowed the On rear. They reached Seishin on with the recont Paramount hit, little warterly non-party review deals with the problems of the Les to be no landed as to submergo April 14 in a ten-ton aalling boat, "To-morrow and To-morrow," fen- and misellany of rural life and in-countryside on sound. practical the centre of the disc in water at the which was loaded with 880 stleks turing Ruth Chatterton and Paul dustry, kes on from strength to lines, studiously
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number, spurious and the superficial. See company, entered a plea of guilty. Prohibited Meeting. much enlaged, marks the start of Ing that a sum of £1 will pay for a fine of $250 was imposed.
Tokyo, June 19. its nixth year of publication. "two years' subscription, "The
Nearly 200 people wero arrested Here we haya publication with Countryman" is well within thei Mr. Theodore Patrick Kenneth a cherm all own. As Thomas means of everybody. To those in Kenble was this morning admitted to and several injured in the scuffle Hardy has of it, "The Coun- the Far East who want to keep in practice as a solicitor in Supreme that occurred when police ordered tryman' make one feel in the touch with the English country. Court by the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph the suspension of the proletarian country-ndthe English coun- alde, we can offer no better advice Kemp). The Chief Justice wished the meeting, which was being held in tryside at that. The latest tribute than to become a regular subscrib- young solicitor every success in bis the Tsukijo Theatre this afternoon.
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