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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1925.
CORRESPONDENCE.
'Shoddy Hongkong" Again.
DRUNK ON DUTY.
SHIP'S ENGINEER IN TROUBLE.
CERTIFICATE CANCELLED,
THE CHINA MAIL.
TRESPASS BY MISTAKE. LONDON'S LUNATICS.
STONE QUARRIED FROM WRONG LAND,
DOUBLED IN THIRTY YEARS,
MANLY INSTINCTS;
CAN WOMEN TEACHERS IMPLANT THEM?
Mr. W. H. Young, in his presi The suggestion that the time had arrived when the question of dential address at the annual con- a lethal chamber for certain ference of the National Associa sidered was put forward recently opened at Nottingham, sald that cases of insanlly might be con- tion of Schoolmasters. which at the resumed National Confer the efforts to secure identical pay, ence of mental authorities, called identical rights, identical oppor-" sider the recommendations of the for men and women were bound to by the Board of Control to con- "tunities, and identical citizenship departmental committee appoint fail, because their protagonists ed to inquire into the nursing ser- shut their eyes to the fact that vice of county and borough men- those for whom they claimed tal 'hospitals. The proceedings equality were held in the hall of the Civil different." Mr. Macnamara said.
were fundamentally Service Commission at Burling- recently that be noticed that ton Gardens, and the subject for women were abandoning their discussion was the suggestion of shrill soprano, and were cultivat the board that further provision ing a mollifying contralto, but this of mental hospital accommodation could not deprive them of their was necessary. Sir Frederick femininity. In the future, as in Willis again presided:
the past, the vast majority of man
The ovil of large classes, con-
The Chairrian said they had to would be the bread-winners for face the question of providing the family, and the vast majority. more accommodation in some way of women would attain the utmost or other for insane persons of the limit of happiness in the joy of the vacant accommodation to-day future. So far as one could see, motherhood. was only sufficient for a couple of tinued Mr. Young. paled before years or so. They could not build the still greater evil of unsuitable a big new asylum under five or staffing. If our boys were to be. six years. Therefore they had to trained to become men, to act as consider what could be done in the men, to think as men, they must have manly instincts implanted in Dr. Bates (Lancashire Asylums them, and these manly instincts Board), who opened the discus- could not be produced by women The recent Burnham teachers.
Mr. Frederick Mo Fung, a well- known Chinese resident, was the (To the Editor of the China Mail).
defendant in an action in the Sin-After several months I
"We And that Mr. W. o.Sammary Court yesterday afternoon took advantage of the holiday on Nicholl, whose certificate of com- had quarried and which afterwards concerning land on which he last, the 1st of June, and Monday the New Territories by petency as First Engineer is num- he found was not that or which he train to Fanling. From there I ber 45672 of Dundee, 1908, while had permission to quarry went with some of the board the 5.8. Taikoo Wan Yi, was and adjoined Crowd land, the stone The land was ut Kowloon City went with some American tour-serving as Fourth Engineer on
drunk in the engine room on May quarrying rights of which had been branch line, und un our return we
9 and May 10, was drunk on deck granted Mr. Mo Fung by the had J shower. of rain.
on "May 19 and May 20, at PW.D. Stone, had been quarried hut really it. Was
too
Tjilipap and that owing to the 50 yards inside the boundary, plaint bad the situation we three effects of liquor was unable to tiff's counsel statex, and damage passengers were in while it was perform his duties between May done.
nining. The would-be first-clase 21 and May 27. We therefore ad- trenches and natural banks.
to fruit trees, draining carriage was most uncomfortable judge that the certificate of com- Mr. Mo Fung said that the work as the rain came benting in from petency as First Engineer of the had been stopped immediately the all sides and even if it is the said Mr. W. 0. Nicholl shall be mistake lind been discovered. He intention of the railway to close cancelled and that he shall be paid know nothing of the fruit trees and this line, surely the authorities off the articles of s.s. Taikoo was not responsible for damaging should "New that the
ear Wan Yi in the waters of Hong-y. To had agreed earlier on ringes 20 in
fit state kong a
to pay royalty of 15 per cent. on for travelling because as The above was the finding of all stone taken and $18 for the use passengers we pay not only the Marine Court of Inquiry held at of a rond he had made across plain- legal fare but also to see that one
the Harbour Office yesterday to tiff's land, but he did not hand the receives a certain amount of com-investigate charge of drunken-oyalty money over because he fort, and it would be well that the
ness against Mr. W. O, Nicholl, understood he might have to pay it authorities attend to any small fourth engineer of the as. Taikoo to the Government. defects in these tiny carriages. Wan Yt. The Court was com-
One of the partners in the firm not necessarily to any great posed of Lieut. Commdr. G. F. which had proprietary rights over expense, but at least to see that Hole, President, Lieut. Commdr, the land in question stated in evid. the rain does not spoil lady's Harvey of the R. N. Chart Depot, ence that he estimated the value of nice silk frock, let alone a tourist's Captain B. T. Pilcher, master of the stone removed as $2,000. ... brand new $35 suit.
s.. Tanda, Mr. "W. E. Webster,
Mr. Mo Fung, in his evidence, chief engineer, s.8. Tanda, and stated that, the total value of the noticed that the main line car- Mr. George Ironside, chief en-stone he had quarried was $1.100.sion, dealt with the extended use riages have notices in them to thisgineer, s.s. Changsha.
As the cost of inbour was 60 per of Poor Law accommodation Award, whilst recognising to a effect "Please do not apit."
nesses ordered to attend
cent, and of carrying 25 per cent. under Section 25 and 26 of the small extent the added responsi Surely, there is some omission. Captain R. Mitchell, Mr. J. W.the net value was $165.
Lunacy Act, 1890. That was all bilities of men, would fail in in- This figure Mr. Justice Wood very well in theory, and the Lan- ducing the requisite number of Donald, chief engineer, and Mr. L. V. Rowe, first mate, all of 3.5.epted and sing general cashire Asylums Board had tried men to enter the profession. Talkoo. Wan Yi.
dumages at $100 mggested: to put that in operation in order "Dealing with the subject of settlement on the lines of the pay-to relieve the congestion in their moral instruction, may plead ment by Mr. Mo Fung to the plain-institutions. Thirty-six cases with the Press to take its part in tiffs of these amounts, also a month's were recommended for removal, raising the level of morality?" and out of that number eleven proceeded Mr. Young. The pen were accepted by the Poor Law is indeed mightier than the sword, authority. He suggested that the and if wielded on the side of Right Board might use their powers it will do much to bring about a with the Treasury to see whether better state of affairs. For weeks some grant could be made to the past columns upon columns of the Poor Law institutions in order Press have been filled with to induce them to take the cases nauseous details of legal cases which it was not essential should thatare a blot on our civilisation. be received for active treatment Lurid incidents in revolting in mental hospitals. Let the in- crimes, minute particulars of stitutions be mental hospitals and murders, suicides, and thefts not storehouses. (Hear, hear).
Again for the first time I
would ask. Spit where? On a
man's face? Surely we cannot say Please do not drink We must definitely state the particular drink. Similarly, "Spit" is not It is grammatical to complete. say "Plase do not spit on the floor of the carriage" or even "Passengers are prohibited from spitting on the floor of carriages," Is the Traffic Manager responsi- ble
for this notice in the carriages?
Yours, etc.,
A passenger with two tourists from Los Angeles.
Hongkong, June 2, 1925,
A Motoring Danger.
Sir,--Our Roads Department are to be congratulated on the improvements they are effecting and the districts they are opening up but why, oh why must they put layers of sand on the surface of the roads at some of the most dangerous spots imaginable?
grip owing to the sand.
I aist saw an accident on the Wongneichong, Gap Road narrowly averted this week-end through the
The wit- were
Mr T. T. Laurenson watched proceedings on behalf of the
China Coas: Officers' Guild and the Marine Engineers' Guild of "China. Mr. Nicholl was not legally represented.
Captain R. E. Mitchell, master
rent of the land, $301! in all
The suggestion was accepted and the case adjourned sine die,
Mr. H. S. Fitzroy appeared for I Ton-cheung, plaintiff, and Mr. of the s.s. Taikoo Wan Yi, stated C. A. S. Russ for the defendant. in evidence that whilst on a Voy- age from Hongkong to Balikapan. on May 9, he overheard the defen- dant using abusive language to
the chief engineer.
Soon after
to
officers and making himself a nuisance to the Chinese crea Witness ordered defendant to his cabin, but was met with obscene
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CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND
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Severn and Mr. D. Davies (Assistant Secretary).
CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND,
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meantime.
CHINA MAIL'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE
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18-To sand forth
15-A chemical element (symbol) 20-Suffix to form plural nouna, 22-Within
23-Translator (abbr) 24-A skin disease
28-Combination of all the colors 27-Periods of time
~~20—Goddess of the dawn (97.
Myth.)
31-Prefix meaning "bad" 32-Therefore,
34-Floral symbal of Mathers Day 89-Abay
40—The wo-toed sloth of Brazil
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
VERTICAL
1-то perform
2--Moak S-Tozlure 4Greatır in amount
Preposition B-Interjection 7-Egypilan aun-god B-To turn rapidly D-Pertaining to the malls 10---Taking of filegal interest 11-Goit tarm
15---Negalvo
15mAn addition to a letter (abbr.) 21-Point of Compass (abbr.). 22-Latin for "that is" (abbr.), 24———Postmatva pronoun.
| 25–A. word usually followed by
Mpakue
|27-Natives of Denmark
28-To sip-
[80—Of enunder mind [91-Deflies
41-One of the Great Lakes of U. 35-Posive pronoun.
8. and Can.
42-Otherwis
43-Watcher or guarde 44-interjection
48—The greatest thing in the
world
50Faithful
62-A olrquier sleeveless: cloak 54---Prafx meaning "two; twice" 65A · mkalca)*nota.
56-Concerning
{96-Went rapidly
16--Uand to fasten, a bolt #37-A number
58-Anger
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{42—A nocturnal-bled 148-To hasten
46-To show plainfy or certainly
47-A. troche, lozanga [45-Very corpulent-
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58Latituds south of the equator 61-Behold
(abbr) 59-Stretcked, tight 61-Rallroad vahlafe
65-Flexible stem of the paim
68-To-go up
165–T¢ line #gulo 17
69A common induct
70 Most beloved
71--To permit.
(The solution of the
|65-A carpenter's tool
55-To keep off
57To wirry
[Chimh day or strip
|10--Point of sompaan (abbr,) |62-Atmosphere
64--Mara Dame (familiar) <--Profit above cost
67-Prefix meaning "trom; down"
| 68---Aight side (abbr) above, cross-word puzzle will
appear in to-morrow'à "China Mail" along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
BOLSHEVIK OPERAS.
TO
same cause, and to have sand language, which, under pressure, children, and even if there was no large extent their power to dis- provide, and the return would be Several Communist newspapers |
the discussion witness was called. to the engine room by the chief
He The fortnightly, meeting of the engineer to see Mr. Nicholl.
Dr. Barham (Claybury Mental pander to the cravings which are so common to all of us, and their found him in a drunken condition. Sanitary Board was held yester (To the Editor of the China Mail On being ordered to leave the day under the chairmanship of Hospital) said that from the point exclusión. from our newspapers by the chief en Mr. N. L. Smith and the follow- of view of medical treatment would, I believe, have a mare bene- engine room gineer, defendant used abusive ing members: Dr. W. W. Pearse educational facility, and economic ficial effect than the delivery of
referring language,
his (M.O.H.), Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Dr. standpoint there was divergence
countless sermons.
"Theatres. superior as being "obsolete and. C. Macgown, Hon. Mr. C. G. of opinion as to whether early
music-halls, and cases of mental disorder should Mr. incapable." Witness Intervened Alabaster,· K.C.,
Wong
be received in mental hospitals. to answer for. The libretto and cinemas have, like the Press, much- Mr. G. and ordered defendant to leave Kwong-tin and
S. the engine room under threat of
Kennedy Skipton
There were those who deprecated (Secretary). bringing the vessel back to Hong- Others present were Dr. A. G. Many association, however slight, the patter have approached as kong, and he eventually obeyed,
between cases of incipient mental closely as possible (in many cases disorder and definite insanity.
far too closely) to the limit set by accusing both witness and the Going down Garden Road the chief engineer of being drunk.
Dealing with the question of the Censor, and many of the other day about as slow as it is Witness then detailed how defen- A letter from the Government sending cases out on trial, Mr. J. hoardings are disfigured by illus. possible to do I had of necessity dant took in a private stock of was placed before the Board re- Goodwin-King (Hellingly Visit-trations as foully suggestive as
FAILURE.
REVOLU to apply the brakes, and although liquor at Tjilipap on May 19 and gretting that there was no site ing Committee) said that many they dare be. Both parents and
relatives and friends were relue children are contaminated." these are in perfect order and again caused annoyance by run- available for a children's play-tant to take into their homes While these defects in our
TIONISE" MASTERPIECES. locked the wheel, I could not stopning about the deck clad in short ground in Kowloon,
Dr. Macgown, who brought the persons who were still under educational system continued to
The recent attempt made at because the wheel could get no knickers, interfering with other matter forward at a previous certification, and. who were not exist, real education was impos--
meeting, said that it was a pity capable of being discharged from sible, and full value would not be Moscow to "revolutionise" the
inental hospitals as
cured, received for the money expended. music and texts of well-known. that Government had not seen fit to do something. Shanghai had Medical superintendents had an He asked for the British boy the operan has been abandoned, says
objection to exercising to any best that the British nation could a Berlin message. made ample provision for the strewn on this tortuous road witness repeated in Court. seems to me the height of folly. the following day defendant was ground at the disposal of the Gov charge patients to relatives. the production of a race able and point out that most operatic Mr. C. L. Forestier-Walker, willing to uphold the best tradi-masterpieces are tainted with the bourgeois tendencies to an in- I am not a roadmaker or super- again drunk and the chief en-ernment one would have thought M.P., urged the atility of regional tions of our country (Cheers.)
Feradicable extent, 80 that visor, reither am I a scientist gineer was compelled to take his they would buy some, or provide
instead of tampering with them coming forward with any new watch. Defendant was logged on open spaces where new buildings and difficulties might be consider
were being put up. chemical compound but it does May 21,
Communist composers should try The result seem to me that there should be
Mr. J. W. Donald, chief en- would only be overcrowding as ined and settled. Such gatherings require further accommodation if to replace them by compositions
would also aid economy.
she retained her present of their own. something better than and to gineer, also gave evidence and Hongkong.
Mr. Medus (Surrey) thought boundaries. prevent the tar coming up in the bore out certain portions of the warm weather, for I suppose that master's evidence. When ordered a letter had been received from Law would at the present time during the afternoon.
The Chairman mentioned that that a greater use of the Poor A general discussion followed ballet produced at Petrograd, re- is the reason why the sand is put to leave the engine room by Cap Government in regard to the re-do away with the need for fur- Mr. H. W. S. Francia (Assist direction. Its denunciation of port of the Committee appointed ther accommodation of mental ant Secretary, Ministry of the Cross as the symbol of ing to witness, was extremely to go into the question of impro hospitals. Many of the patients Health), referring to an allusion "humiliation and slavery" has abusive and one of the remarks, he ing food inspection. A further who went into asylums should not to the stigma of poverty," said given offence to theatre audiences, made was "No booze, no work."
Defendant denied the charges
communication was promised in be sent there. Many of them that the only disqualification of while even friendly critics admit on oath and stated that on one.
due course.
should be in infirmaries. It was any kind that attended the receipt that neither as regards music or occasion the Captain brought him
a curse that cases of senile decay of poor-law relief was that the text is it a particularly brilliant a gill of whisky, which was suf-
should be sent to mental hospitala. recipient could not be a member production. ficient evidence that he was not then under the influence of liquor. He was in the habit of taking a little spirits "every day of my life." The half-nude incident be
there.
Yours, etc....
MOTOR-CYCLIST. Hongkong, June 2.
AIR FUNERAL:
PILOT'S BODY FLOWN 150 MILES.
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WORLD THEATRZ
ATTRACTION.
conferences, where local problems
The Bolshevista, a Communist
presents a recent effort in that.
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ANGRY SCULPTORS.
DESIGNS FOR MEMORIAL SMASHED.
caused great discontent.
The decision of a committes Our Asylums were antiquated. of a board of guardians or district Puccini's "Tosca" and Meyer-which selected from many entries He had been surprised at what he council. He did not think that beer's "Huguenot" are two operas a war memorial for Milan has had seen. Patients could not be surviving disqualification' serious recently "Communised," the first- separated as they should be.
ly affected the question whether a mentioned being called the "Fight The Chairman in a reference to person who required treatment Around the Commume," the latter described as an exaggeration. A character new to fiction, the asylums were antiquated, said the workhouse or the asylum.
the statement that many of our for mental deficiency should be in "The Decembrists," in memory of the Russian revolutionaries of Owing to the heat he invariably stage and the screen is the by aeroplane for burial in London wore short knickers on board. "crime deflector" who makes bis that it was wonderful to observe Mr. F. Rowley (Three Counties 1825.
The Court retired and on re-bow to the public in "Red Lights, how these antiquated buildings Mental Asylum) said that there
Although bodies in coffins have
been brought from the Continent
Neither of these experiments in
Two of the disappointed sculp-»«. tora, after publicly criticising the verdict on the exhibition of designs, proceeded to smash first their works, and then the models
ed in particular against the work of the sculptor Castiglioni, con- sidered by the public and Press as one of the best.
and other places, what is claimed turning read their finding as The screen. version is tho attrac- could be used inthe most scientific was only one class of person who rejuvenating opera on Communist/of other artists. Their fury turn-
to be the first serial funeral took stated above, place in mail week.
The fellow-airmen of the Inte Mr. George Powell, a British com- mercial pilot, chartered a special saloon-plane and flew his body! from the Croydon air-station to Shawbury, Shropshire, for inter: ment at Stanton, close by-a dix- tance of about 150 miles Mr. Powell was killed in a motor-car collision.
ITALY SCREENED.
"THE WHITE SISTER" AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.
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General panic followed, and the pelice had to intervene. Two sculptors, Gianinazzi, of Rome," and Carlo Pizzi, of Milan, were arrested. The majority of the seventy-five modela: exhibited Buffered damage.
WHAT SHALL WE DO TO-DAY 2
tion for four days at the World way, He would be exceedingly could be properly admitted into lines has met with success. Theatre commencing to-day. The Aurry if anyons went away think institutions and that was the crime deflector is a new type of ing it was admitted that because thoroughbred lunatic. There detective-he does not track a building was erected fifty or was, however, another class for criminals after the crime has been sixty years ago it must be whom no place was provided. committed, but prevents or deflects scrapped. That was an impos- Grading" was essential in the The crime.
eible position,
case of Junatics. About this new character bas✨ DOUBLE AS MANY LUNATICS. Mr. Robert Bruford · (Cock- been constructed how thrilling Mr H F Keene (London ford) said he had seen when going melodrama of mystery, romance and County Council) remarked that it through a mental hospital · casek lively incident, with a favouring of wis novel to find the Board of of people who were no better than Would you like to see Rome, the comedy. Judging from the gasps Control suggesting the use of animals, and whose lives were a The aeroplane, a Napler-D.H. city of the seven eternal hills and shudders with which the film Poor Law accommodation, seeing burden to themselves, an excru- expresa used on the Continental Would you like to visit Mt. version is met it is going to be one thit apparently in the past they clating agony to their friends, services by Imperial Airways, was Vesuvius, Italy's death-bolching of the biggest hits of the year. The had been opposed to it. When and a great anxiety to those in converted into an aerial hearse. volcano? Would you like to enjoy story is rather complicated and has the London County Council in whose care they were placed. Ho The coffin rested in the saloon the charm of Borrento, the jewel to do with the daughter of a railway 1800 took over the mental hos wondered whether in the cases of amid a mass of wreaths, many of of Italy's north-Nuples, with its magnate who has been kidnapped pitals they had 10,104 patients, such persons the time had not which had come from the Con- bay of blue violent rivoli, the by the half-crazed vengeful brother There were a number who were arrived when a responsible board. tinental air stations, where Mr. town of harrow torturous streets? of the magnate who finds a means of under the Poor Law and 6,566 might consider the advisability Powell me well known. He had These form the setting for Lillian transmitting his voice by means of patients with the Meteropolitan a lethal chamber. ("Oh, oh") flown between London, and the Gish's greatest dramatic triumph, red light and uses to wreak van Asylums Board In the work It might be that public opinion Continent since the start of com- showing at the Queen's Theatre.
The White Sister which is now goance upon his brother for mercial aviation in 1919.
winning the hand of the woman he uses of London, which had no would turn in that One wreath of white flowers The White Sister was chosen loved by terrorizing the daughter proper accommodation save as re The Chairman thought from his pilot felends was a model entirely oversese his boon the ed and it is when she starts home On January 1 this yea
as the first film to be reproduced The daughter's identity is discover celving wards there were 592, discussion had been of
the numseemed clas that of an aeroplane. oustanding artistic triumph of the to her father that all the starting ber of lunatics belonging to Lon- Vacant accommodat
Mr. Woolly Dod, one of Mr. present, mostra mature soon and horrifying events detailed in Powell's colleagues, acted as pilot the work of Lailian Gish, the picture take place of the funeral plane; and Major screen's greatest artiste, the far dash of an coupled Brackley malt superintendent of leading role, has been characterised down a mountain ride, with a Imperial Airways, Accompanied as better than anything he has ever the principle of the start in the coffin in the saloon,
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