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DEATH'S TRIBUTĘ.
(To the Editor of the China Maß.)
Six-Your -editorial columna bave always brought on wisdom, truth and good reason, and as reader I much value them, But it was a surprising turn of the tide that I find with your article "No Flowers" in your issue of last evening, Your subject matter is
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1926.
FILM COPYRIGHT. MAGISTRACY ITEMS.
LOCAL SUMMONS, FOR INFRINGEMENT
"THE KID."
1/
FEATURES IN MORNING CASES.
Drunkenness
was a
A POLICE CHASE.
A summons for infringement of A Chinese pantry boy on the film entitled The Kid" was a long chase from the Wing Lok copyright in connection with ass.. "Tat Shan" led the police on brought by the Hongkong Amuse Street wharf yesterday when he ments, Ltd., against the Flow Woo was suspected by a detective of Company of Hollywood Road, as carrying opium. He was even- distributors, before Mr. R. Etually stopped by an Indian con- innst exceptional and i was aston-Lindall at the Central Magie-atable with six taels of prepared ished to read the absurdity that tracy this morning.
opium in his possession. wae contained therein. We are in
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks was for the The man was charged before the full prime of civilisation and prosecution, and Mr. J. A. Gordon Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central it is expected of us to show due Leask, for the defence, pleaded Magistracy this morning and fined
$1,000,
months' hard respects to our own dead. We are not guilty.
or six During the outlining of his labour.. human beings and bear a humane soul, born with the spirit of love, case, Mr. Brooks read extracts" An Incorrigible Rogue. sympathy and honour. Why from the Copyright Ordinance in "This is your fourth conviction should we look upon our departed support of the infringement and for stealing: you are an incorrigi as a flickering flame and our alan referred to an Order-in-Coun- ble rogue," said the Magistrate in memories of them to le forgotten.cil by which the scope of the copy-sentencing another youth to four Sending a wreath to our departed right, which was an American one, months' imprisonment for the One is only emblematic of the was made applicable in Hong-theft of shoes..
Evidence in the case showed living's memory and as a hope fer) kong... to complete a road in India-work the departed soul to rost pouce- Mr Butler, manager of the that defendant and another man retarded and frustrated time and fully and happily and as bright as Hongkong Amusements, Ltd., giv-were observed to be walking in -by-disastrous floods. He was up the flowers indicate. Why shoulding evidence from the witness Centre Street currying the shoes we do away with wroaths? "You | box, "produced an agreement by and were stopped by a detective. against "the system" which seem-
said it was a waste of money in which his company, as owners of One of them promptly bolted and ed inadequate to rise to the occa-purchasing a wreath, but you the Queen's Theatre, were alone made his escape, while the other sion' and counteract the effects of are mistaken when you come to entitled to show the film in Hong-was seized in the act of running" The arrested man later floods." Elsewhere men have de create the impression that when kong. He said it came to his away,
you come across a lengthy list knowledge by means of a handbill took the detective to the shop voted the best years of their lives
such as the one in Sir Paul that the picture was going to be from which the shoes were stolen. to Government work in the Chater's funeral, much"money has shown at the Kwong. Chee Thea- and the articles were identified by. Colonies, but at the end of two or been spent but you failed in the tre. Yaumati. Witness wrote to the shopkeeper.
Serious Charges. three decades if they manage to point that individually purchasing the solicitors and as a result of
a wreath costs nothing very high a letter the picture was not shown. Two rattan workers were each' survive at all--have had to with- to the sender who would on the Last year, witness continued, the charged separately with harbour- draw, heart-broken.. "The other hand consider it a duty picture was going to be shown at fing unmarried girls and removing system" is remorseless
and oven. if a wreath costs $5 it the Chinese Y.M.C.A., and at that them from lawful custody. The and
is immaterial to them. It is only time he was instructed by Mr. Ray complainant in one case exacting. "The system" has in cases when a dying man ex (managing director) to put an ad- fisherman, the father of a girl of been a greater curse than all the presses the wish that no fowers vertisement, which appeared in 15. The other girl was alleged to have been ehticed from the home handicaps of tropical "climates be sent to his funeral, then the the "China Mail.”
In answer to a query as to who of her aunt. Hearing was nd- combined... "The system has request be obeyed. Not even the
nearest relatives have the right to are the owners of the copyright, journed until Friday afternoon. taken a greater toll of-life-than-all-
Append "No Bowers" in a witness said that, by the rights the brain-racking fevers and funeral notice. Requests for no conferred on them nobody else body-breaking diseases together: flowers are very rare indeed. The could show the picture.
actress Sarah Sergeant J. F. Kennedy said "A broken road may one day be eminent French completed- broker spirit never! Berhardt when soon passing away that on instructions of the Direc expressed the wish that plenty of tor of Criminal Intelligence he Equally tragic is the thought Rowers be sent to her funeral made inquiries at the Kwong Chee that there is no sovereign remedy and in response to her desire a Theatre as to whether the film had
profusion of or antidote for "the system." Like huge
charming been censored. He found six reels flowers was sent from thousands of the film with a label bearing Topsy, it has simply "growed of het admirers.
the name of the How Woo Com
Witne You suggested that at a Euro- pany. Hollywood Road.: Mrs." through the long misty years.
Little or nothing appears to be pean's funeral, the pall hearers said he found the censorship card done to improve on "the system." should be Europeans and not in order. It was dated May 15,
Chinese. Should there be a re- 1924, and bore the name of the was disclosed in a case before Administrations and officials come
Form in this? In my opinion. I Queen's Theatre. Witnees whS- and yo-"the system" only re- would say that such needs no re unable to give the name of the Major Willson where it was stated mains. Even those who may de-formt, as it is the duty of personal owners as the card had been misthat a man who lost a quilt from a verandah followed footprints precate criticism of "the system friends to shoulder the coffin of laid
burial Mr. Leask mentioned that he had left by the thier along the veran-. may themselves in time be count their late friend for the
Woo Film Corporation were put his body. The thief was given him sleeping with the quilt over the heatse. You must not dislike tims. Reformers are non per- seeing coolies shouldering the
down as owners, Continuing, he
three weeks' hard labour. said that the proceedings were en- HASTINGS.On May 26, at the sona grata. They are always poffin as it is their duty to do it,
He argued Nursing Home, Syers Road, suspect, by their superiors as being the hearse attendants. You Kuala Lumpur, to Mr. and these same superiors often are should better blame the lack of manners and etiquette of our Mrs. Hastings, a daughter. by those even higher on the runga folks out here.
One has the MACNAB-On May 26, #t
Admirals and Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. of the ladder of officialdom. Hopes spectacle to A. C. Macnab, a daughter. raised at the zenith of their car-Field-Marshole as pall-bearers at eers are eventually and apparently the funeral of a comrade at Home MACKINNON-On May 9, at
and at other funerala eminent Colombo, to Mrs.
L. N. inevitably blighted and quenched." statesmen perform the same task. Their hearts are in the work, but If in a place other than here the Mackinnon, a son, ROLFE-ROGERS.-On May 17, it is spoliated by something that funeral of Sir Paul Chater would at St. John del Rey, Nor- comes not within the realm of have been more impressive and one is most likely to see members of Councils acting as pall-bearers to The case of Dr. Pearse and the their departed brother Councillor, Sanitary Administration of this It was a shame that such was not Colony is, as has been indicated, evident the other day.
Yours, etc.,
RESPECT.". Hongkong, June 2.
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C. M. Payne, a building fore- man, who was recently fined for being found drunk and incapable, was again in Court on a similar charge.
Defedant related his "sorrows" consequent on being without work and promised to behave himself in future if he was let off this time. He was asked to pay fine. of $10, or fourteen days.
"Followed a Clue. Smart amateur detective work
Kathleen, wife of A. R. Ted, unwittingly, among its vie. ground, after removing it from a copy of the card and the Howdahs of five houses and caught
a son.
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tirely misconceived. that in an infringement of this nature the owner was the only perTHE TEMPERATURES. son entitled to bring proceedings. A through the English Act owner was referred to, but the Hongkong Amusements. Ltd. were
the
only licencees, He concluded by saying that they had no right to bring proceedings in this Court and pointed out that there had been no wilful infringement. The picture
wood, to Katherine, wife of mysticism or fatalism-the deadly the Executive and Legislative bore the name of the How Woo
R. G. Rolfe-Rogers, a son,
Hongkong, Wednesday, June 2, 1926.
HEART BREAKING!
"system."
no isolated one. But, knowing his "patient" and the symptoms of the disease diagnosed as "the That curse of administration system," Dr. Koch inferentially everywhere"the system"-has prescribes a possible remedy-the been indicted once more. Refer- ring to the work of Dr. Pearse, late Medical Officer of Health, who left for Home on retirement on for at least two years. Possibly it
creation of a General Board of Health, which is exactly what has been advocated in these columne
SANITARY BOARD MEETING.
LOW RECORD FOR JUNE
On Tuesday, June 1, between 2.48 p.m. and 3.05 p.m. the tem- perature fell from 75.0 degree to
68,5 degree; (the lowest on the re- cord for June: Beating the pre-
Film Company and when they found-vious record on June 10, 1898, b they could not show it they sent it 0.4 degree) The relative humidity in the same interval increased fromà to Shanghai.
The case was adjourned for one 67% to 91. week.
DESPERATE STRUGGLE:
At the Kowloon. Magistracy this morning, a Chinese arrested for cutting trees was remanded for one week as another "arrest was in hospital.
At 2.a.m. on June 2, the tem-. perature fell still lower, to 69.2 de-.
Inches
This........will probably...make June 2 the coldest June day on re- cord, the previous lowest mean daily temperature in this month. having been 72:1 degree on June. 11886. These low temperatures are due to an anticyclone which Inspector McWalters said that formed over China on May 20, be- two Indian constables were escort gan to move eastward on May 31, ing two men to the station when but alowed down and strengthened Arising out of what was said one of them grabbed at the on June 1. Very exceptional con- Saturday, Dr. Koch had some out may not in actual practice, beat the last meeting, the Chairman policeman's revolver. A desperditions for June. spoken comments to make at yes- found to oust "the system" once at yesterday's Sanitary Board ate struggle ensued in which the terday's meeting of the Sanitary and for all; but it should be found proposed names to serve on a man had to be disabled with blows: Board. "It was very apparent most helpful to the local adminis Committee to enquire into the on his head with the truncheon.RAINFALL RECORD.. that his years of work had some tration of sanitation of public question of the general rise in
AT BOTANIC GARDENS DURING the price of foods sold the what broken Dr. Pearse's spirit. health. And, if it only prevents markets and to suggest steps
MAYA On coming to the Colony he had future heart-breaking experiences which may be possible to effect found how different were the and ensures that every official re-reduction of those prices and re duties of a Medical Officer of tires in the fulness of time with por to the Board The Head of the Sanitary Department, Dr. Health here compared with those something less pathetic and tragics. W. Tso and Mr. Wong Kwong at Home, or if any of our other than a broken spirit, it will not tin. Colonies for that matter. As he have been tried in vain. kept on, he hoped that some im provement would be made in the apportioning of his duties. I am certain that it blouded his ́`·life a great deal. He had hopes of dealing with the sanitary pro blems of the Colony, and it was not his fault that, his hopes were not realised. It was the fault of the system, and the fault should be eradicated by the formation of a General Board of Health.
is unfortunate that this dis
It
appointment should have cast a shadow over Dr. Pearse's official
life."
IDLE LIST.
LOAN OF A MILLION POUNDS
ייו.
eradicated by the appoinment of a really efficient General Board of Health,
Well versed in his profession he also had a large fund of in- formation, he was a man with whom it was a pleasure to talk Dr. Koch seconded, the motion and argue. In his dealings with being carried unanimously. the Board he was always courte
Reference was made by Dr.ous and never impatient. He and Koch to the departure of Dr. the speaker had had many a tilt W. W. Pearse, M.OH. He had on the Board and a little while had the pleasure of knowing Drafter met to wash down any sting Pearse for 24 years and he had there might have been. been a good friend all the timer He thought it would be Atting Dr. Fearse was a very difficult that some record of their appre- man to know, for one had to know clation of his work should be re- him a long time before one got corded in the minutes and a copy Amsterdam. June 17 at the heart of the man. He had forwarded to Dr. Pearse The raising of a loan of the sanitary good of the Colony therefore moved that the Board £1,000,000 is the object of a very much at hearted records its appreciation of the ing visit of three delegates to All who attended the dinner valuable services performed uport the T.U.C. to consult the head given recently in his honour must it by Dr. Pearse during the time quartery of the International have realised how heart-break- he was Medical Officer of Health. Federation of Trade Unions, the ing the conditions were when he Dr. 8. W. T'so seconded, add- proceeds to be devoted to British Arat came to the Colony, conding his "appreciation to - that Trade Unions, who are responsibletions to be found. In no civilised voiced by Dr. Koch. for the maintenance of over a country and pot in some neigh The motion was math of the strike. million unemployed us an after bouring Colonies. His work re- unanimously,
BEING RAISED.
(Reuters Servios.):
The tragic tale of a broken spirit is no new one. Is it not almost immortalised in that fine book, "The Broken Boad," which For driving Iron material into publie pavemente, five cobblers tells how & British official spent are fined 13 each at the Kowlog years, and years in an endeavour. Mingistracy this morning.»
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