THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, DECEMBER
and
1935.
ONE WAY OF DOING IT
Ways of reducing road slaughter have recenty been suggested by local authorities. This is how they are now tackling the problem in Ameria. Too gruesome for Hongkong do you think?
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Hongkong Telegraph. TUnited States are now re-
TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 1935.
ITALY BECOMING ALARMED
of
that
some
more
an
field scenes.
X
roads means
people.
:
They didn't dare try to ubend him till they reached the hopital. He was still alive and consqus. He proved that by stealing to police, man's gun out of its heuter and trying to shoot himself while he still had the chance. He knew his bark was broken and he'd better die at once before they did anything about it."
sorting to "methods of frightful- ness" to reduce the appalling toll
Normal terms of reduction of accidents striking dreat into motor users. road slaughter. methods of propaganda to in- then possibly the local authori- assert that no person can com
terms in human culcate anfe driving have failed ties may be tempted either to prehend what-slaughter on the
adopt or adapt it. to reduce the casualty lists.
The effort to jar motorists unless he has been shown the Reports that Italy may soon. Last year 36,000 people were into a realisation of the grisly ghastly spectacle of mutilated make an approach to Britain and killed on American highways perils of the roads is based on humanity lying on marble slabs
or unless he has. France with a view to devising and byways and almost a million, the technique of those unti-war in morgues, a formula for settlement of the were injured, and it is feared propagandists who issued terri- visited accident wards and be- A bride-to-be was killed, her men, girls and flance survives. But "he doesn't Italo-Ethiopian dispute appear that this year's figures will show fying photographs of battle held young
children doomed to spend a. life even know his name nor that he to suggest a growing recognition an increase.
Faced. by the mounting It will be recalled that "Sudden of pain on beds from which they was on the part of Signor Mussolini
over in love. They look after him as well as they can. that the adventure to which he casualty list in this war that Death," which in the United will never rise.
It is really a modern adapta- He exhibits emotion only when has committed his country is never ends, mayors, magistrates. States reaches a circulation of doomed to failure. The fact police chiefs and other safety nearly two million, described in tion of the psychological pro- his meals arrive. Someone has that Britain has abandoned the authorities have reached the revolting detall the condition of cess employed by the old Puritan to feed him.
divines who frightened sinners
"A woman is carried away: peace proposals drawn up in conclusion Paris, coupled with the possi- į drastic meașures aro necessary dead, dying and maimed picked to repentance by painting the from an accident raving crazy
up on the rouda.
Lerrors of Hell in the most vivid direct to an asylum. A wife bility of the early enforcement to shock road users into
The reader was spared no phrases. And, in this sense, the tortures herself with uspicion of an oil embargo and the diff-awareness of the full horror of
touch of frightening horror campaign is well attuned to the that the ineradicable cars on culties which the Italian Army the situation.
the toughest stomach temperament of the American her face cannot help disgusting It is felt that "Safety First" Even is encountering in Ethiopia, have
her husband .. Faces are obviously made a deep Impres posters and pamphlets, lectures sickened at this recital of torn
Mr. J. C. Furnas, who launch- mutilated in such horror they sion on Italy. There is, more to schoolchildren, and homilies limbs, trailing viscera and noz-
ed the campaign by his first hide themselves away for life." over, the further factor that from the Bench to erring motor- ing brains.
article Every year hundreds of thou- gruesome
hus piled
Many magistrates throughout when the wet' season starts, theists have become pathetically in-
and horror on horror in a second the United States, despairing, of task of the invaders will be ren- adequate in the face of this sands
the effect of fines and pleas for dered immeasurably more dim-shocking waste of life. cult still
safer, driving, have become at- tracted by this method of con- analysed, it appears beyond ques-THEREFORE older methods of tion that the Italians are greatly
education in safety are
of verting the roadhog by wearing alarmed at the dual prospect of being replaced by a propagandist children are smashed on
In some cities traffic offenders the application of on oll sanction reign of terror. The pamphlet highways of the United States, Dead." This has made the blood the wits out of him. and more arduous conditions in "Sudden Death," giving blood but never before has the carnage of hundreds of thousands of their conduct of the war. If the curdling examples of road atro-buen portrayed in such grim motorists and pedestrians run have been sentenced to visit-
cold by its agonising descriptions morgues to obtain a harrowing oil sanction were applied not cities, which was published on particularity. only by members of the League,
The theory behind "Sudden of victims who pray in vain for object lesson in the consequences dants carefully explain to them but by the United States as well, local "Safety First" campaign, Death," and the mass of news- merciful death to relieve their of careless driving, and atten- the circumstances of each the effect would most probably has started a nation-wide cam- paper articles and lurid photo- sufferings. * graphs which it has inspired, is East Africa to a standstill at unpaign to terrify motorists into that there will be no substantial HERE are some examples of fatality. Violators of traffic reduction of traffic casualties the new propaganda which is laws who suffer this ordeal often public opinion in, Hongkong haunted by the real horrors that flends:
It may be doubted whether until the public imagination is being employed to chasten speed leave the morgue in a state of collapse, vowing they vill never would approve this daily banquet le behind the cold tables of ae-
"He was doubled up like a broken touch a steering wheel again.. of horrors, but if this new cident statistics.
stick and thrust half-way through There is, however, means the narrow back window of the method of road safety continues Advocates of this method of
wreck, ha head between his knees, of telling how permment are these conversions, and some- to demonstrate its success
times the cure is so drastic as to bring other ev inlts train. For example, of
wondn who was given th puishment suffered a nervo u reddown ax
As the situation is
be to bring the operations in
early date. It has further to be
borne in mind, when considering the question of a petrol sanction, that whereas the measures at present in force bear chiefly on the Italian peasantry, an oil em- bargo would hit the Army in the field. It would, in brief, be a sanction which would be direct,
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this page last month during the
careful driving.
in
cumulative and intense in its NOTES OF THE DAY
effects. The Italian Govern- ment is well aware of this; hence Its restiveness and recent threats
SHARP REMINDER
of countermeasures. The Advices from the North tell a French Government is also con- that Manchukuoan troops have scious of the potentialities; attucked and captured the city of hence its obvious desire to play Kuyuan after a two-day battle and for time. Clearly, France fears of the Charhar provincial command, that the Chinese defenders, units that if the embargo were intro- have retreated to the Great Wall. duced, Italy would be so anta Almost simultaneously we received gonised that Franco-Italian word that a prominent Tokyo news- friendship would be damaged paper had disclosed some alleged beyond repair, M. Laval's at new demands which the Japanese tompt at facing both ways has military authorities were about to placed him in an awkward posi- make of China. These included the tion; even now, he is anxious to well-known request for cessation avoid the application of an oil uf anti-Japanese and anti-Manchu embargo, arguing that before it kuoan activity, and an end of the stimulation of the young Chinese could become effective, the
mind with thoughts of hatred for United States must vote for col- their neighbours. Moreover, the laboration. There is, however, | paper adds that Japan will demand surely no valid reason why the of China full co-operation in sub- League should not now go for- duing Communists in the northern ward with further sanctions, provinces,
appointment of with the one object in view of Japanese instructors in Chinese finally convincing Italy of the military academies and perhaps folly of the Ethiopian campaign.some other concessions. The Japa nose garrison commandera in China It is inconceivable that even one have already been. Instructed to so bellicose as Mussolini would take what steps are necessary to go as far in his nationalistic enforce these demands, the paper folly as to answer the enforce asserts. All of these moves are in ment of an oil embargo by a de-keeping with the Japanese policy claration of war - on the fifty towards China, and disclose the nations pledged to back up the ruthlessness and lack of considera- i League in whatever action it tion, which certain elements in sees fit to take. Further tem- Japan contribute to the relations porising will serve no useful pur- pose; swift action now may compel Italy to come to terms without delay.
the
between the two countries. · · For Japan. to demand a cessation of anti-Japanese demonstrations while Manchukuoan troops and Japanese [Continued on Pago 4.)
of
men. women
By R. J. Cruikshank
the essay
entitled "Better
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Would youse mind keeping an eye on these for a minute, buddy 7"
a result,
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ANOTHER method ofbringing home to road offeders the horror of accidents is pringing into popularity Mgistrates exhibit to select audence of traille violators sundfilms of motor crashes, with th screech- ing of brakes, splintring of glass, rending of mal and screams of victims tuning, the court room into a nerv-racking bedlam,
Some magistrates, however.. prefer the quieter pojshment of ordering wrongdoer to copy out the gorier passaes from such literature ng "Sudden
·Death."
Meanwhile there are certain less spectacular safety methods* which are proving the worth despite the constant in the. general casualty figure}
Accidents to New Dk chil dren of school age ave de creased 21 per cent, his year over last mainly becaud of the successful working safety patrols organised by th children' in elementary school These patrols supervise the upils on their way home, and bid their own disciplinary coum which deal with such infrations na
jay-walking.