1927-06-07 — Page 8

TUESDAY, JUNE 7 1927,

COALITION CABINET.

ROUMANIAN POLITICAL

CHANGES.

DEFENDING THE THRONE.

BALKAN UNREST.

NO TRIAL.

ALBANIA AND, YUGO- SLAVIA:

EXECUTION OF LENINGRAD.

INCENDIARIES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE MODERN WAY.

YOUTH-HAVING ITS FLING.

NOEL COWARD'S VIEWŚ.

Riga, June 6. A TELECRAM TO LEAGUE,

Execution without trial of "all the active members of a band, of) Incendiaries" announced by Bukharest, June 6:

Geneva; June. 6.

Ogpu, better known as the Cheka, An Immoral, indolent; vicious, The new Cabinet Includes four - The Albanian Government hasnt Leningrad.

spineless set, work-shy and un- representatives of the National telegraphed the Secretariat of the

The victims were found respon-ambitious, whose chief purposes Peasants' Party.

League of Nations declaring that'sible for arson and the dispatch of in life are care, cocktails, and Parliament has been dissolved its attitude to Yugo Slavia is most threatening letters to

judges of flappers. and the new elections have been conciliatory but all its efforts to in- Leningrad district court in conneċ-

duce Belgrade to soften the harsh lon with death sentences fixe for July 7,

Kevernl notorious hooligans Prince Stirbey 'has issued. a terma of its note to Albania or to sentatives have been in vain.-

statement that the Cabinet will/revise its decision tu recall its repre- Reuter..

defend the constitution with re- Reuter. gard to the throne and dynasty.- Reuter.

Earlier Messages.

LABOUR OFFICE.

Rush of Modern Life.

I am perfectly certain that if LEARNING LANGUAGES A PLEASURE

I had no output for self-expres sion-1-would fall into the routine of working in an office or a bank quite easily. But I don't sup- pose I should be keen about it.

What I think youth has got to light against most to-day is hurry the ter-

rific rush of modern life and the tendency never to have time to do anything pro- perly. I think this tremendous This is how I imagine present- urge to do things quickly and day young men must be coming get on to the next thing ex to be regarded if anyone takes plains a good deal of the any notice of the recent attacks mental distress that is going that have been made upon them

about at the present time. (writes Noel Coward in the

That is the trouble with art, "Sunday Chronicle"). Only the and it is the cause of the gradual fother day a well-known preacher disappearance of literary polish. denounced modern youth in No one seems to have any time The newspapers are very con-

MORE PEOPLE FROM EAST terms more forceful than digni- for anything.

· Presiding at the Easter Vestry of cerned over the Yugo Albanian

NEEDED.

fed. A few days later a motion breach and the possibility of em- Whitmore, the vicar, attributed the

Hending the Wrong Way. St. Mary's, Carlisle, the Rev. J.

was before the Students' Con- There is a great temptation, I bitterment in the quarrel between decline in congregations to week. |

Geneva, June 6. gress at Bristol viewing, with admit, to allow oneself to be Italy and Yugo-Slavia over end motoring. All churches, he

At the Labour Conference Dr. alarm the time when its own caught up by this feverish habit. Albania, which has already cost said, were aimilarly affected, except European statesmen considerable where they gave people excitement. Paranjpye, a member of the India generation would be in authority. I have felt it terribly in my own And when Oxford added an- work; I have often felt the urge trouble to appease. "Le Matin" "I will never," said the viear, Council, dealing with the internal: points out that the present action condescend to lower the dignity of organisation of the Labour Office other to its long list of failures to sit down and dash a thing off, coincides with the authority given worship by providing excitement for observed that the number of in sport by losing the Boat Race, and have found it hard to fight get them to people from Eastern countries a number of pertinent writers against. But fight against it

Paris, June 6,

DECLINE IN CHURCH-GOING.

to the Yugo-Slavia representative people in order to

church. I am not satisfied with was comparatively small. He heralded it as but another in-one must if one is to do anything

Charleston and Cocktails.

in Rome to make conciliatory pro- many parishioners who call them hoped it would be possible to stance of decay and decadency. worth while. posals in connection with the selves churchpeople. The Church Italo-Albanian Treaty and hopes does a lot for these people.

We engage a few more people from that there may be deduced there-run all kinds of things for them, and India, China, Japan and other from that Yugo-Slavia does not attend them when they are sick, and Eastern countries with the object hold Italy responsible for the yet they do not come to services or of increasing the usefulness of the events which led to the present contribute money.".

breach. Router.

(There was a serious sequel to the arrest by the Albanian named Jurashkovitch, employed as a dragoman in the Jugo-Slav Legation at Tirana, on a charge of spying. Despite Jugo-Slav! protests, his release was refused, and the Jugo-Slay Charge d'Affaires and the entire Legation staff sailed from Darazzo.]

A NUDE STATUE.

VIOLENT CRITICISM OF ARTISTIC SCULPTURE.

Belgrade, May 7-A heated con- troversy is going on over the Tamous sculptor Meshkoviteh's great! statue of a nude 13 feet man .symbolizing the Servlan victories since the first Baikan War. It is proposed to erect it in the centre of Belgrade.

Church nuthurities are erying out ! declaring it as offence against! morality and that it will destroy women's modesty.

A Church, pager violently attacks i the sculptor and says the statue aught to be buried in order that "posterity should not see how de moralized their forefathers were."

An anti-statue committee has been formed.

"A CAVE MAN'S WOOING."

A "cave man's wooing of the kind which has so often furnished! material for novelists and scenario writers was investigated by the "Paris Correctional Tribunal," when Charles Derille appeared to answer a charge of attempted mur-

der.

Labour Office---Reuter.

This latest portrait study of shows him as he appears to-day. from a severe illness.

de tile ago Deville, who TELLING FORTUNES.

had centred his affections on Mile Kerschmeyer, but had met only

YOU,"

with rebuffs, resolved to conquer LOTS CF MONEY COMING TO her heart by such means as men used before they knew the meaning| of romance, One night he burst

UNDERWOOD & UNGEWWDOM 7%, Y,

the King of Rumanin He has recently recovered

Everything in science to-day" is heading us the wrong way. Some All these strictures leave me day, if things go on as they are completely unconcerned for the doing, man will lose all are future of present-day youth. I normal senses and faculties and don't see anything for alarm in will become a sort of Martian, young men and women flinging having everything done for him their feet about in the ecstasies by machinery.

heads.

SYDNEY'S UNDERWORLD.

of the Charleston if they feel. like it. Their skill at cocktail- shaking gives me no desire to throw up my hands in pious horror. Their banality, their

Sydney, April 25. careless shifting of their respon- "I have lived in London and sibilities, and their casualness I know the east end of London, does not make me burn to hurl and I say that the underworld of opprobrious epithets at their Sydney is worse than the under- world of London. I say that After all, the "modern" young without fear of contradiction be- men and women of 25 years ago cause I know the facts in both were being attacked in much the cities." This statement same way; they were having made to-day by the Rev. T. G. their fling to the full extent of Paul, chaplain of Toc H., in his their comparatively limited op-address at the special Anzac Day portunities, and hoary age was commemoration service in St. just as appalled at the prospect Andrew's Cathedral. of the sticky end for which they preacher was speaking of work appeared to be heading,

in the slum areas of Sydney.

was

The

It all proved to be a phase- "Eighty per cent, of the cases as it will prove to be a phase brought before the Children's to-day. Once youth nds its Court in Sydney," he continued, feet it will be discovered that "Are of children who are out of it is just as capable of making touch with their Church, and I the world go round as its fathers put them in touch with their were. Perhaps more so.

Youth's Outlook.

Minister, whatever their denomi- nation, because Toc H. is out As I see them broadly there is to break down those barriers of very little wrong with the young sectarianism which are keeping men and women of to-day. In men apart. I have come to the some ways they are much better conclusion that 60 per cent. of than the men and women of the parents are not fitted for the other days. They have seen the responsibilities of parentage. muck the elder generation made About 40 per cent. of the child- of things in the war. They have ren have never heard the name had a terrible object-lesson in of God unless in an oath, and how not to run the world. They about 40 per cent.' are damned have seen the harvest of avarice from the moment they come into and greed.

the world."

Perhaps it will be a lesson to them when they get their hands The argument about govern-j Wales, or it may be Cornwall or on the helm, although I very ment of motorists by motorists for motorists cannot be consider- Devon. Have you any friends much doubt it,

For all they know they may be ed.—Mr. Churchill, know of, who would leave me few years' time. There is, in there" He replied, "Not that I

plunged into another war in a

Of 20 puffs from a working 'money," Defendant went on to

fact, every possibility of it. Why, man's pipe, 17 are for the State. predict success for him, but told then, in the name of heaven and only three for his own en- open the door of her room, and, POLICE SERGEANT'S VISIT him not to lend money. "You shouldn't they enjoy themselves joyment. Mr. Snowden, M.P

she added, Before Mr. Mead at Marl- "but never do it again. You will while there is yet time? I have with me I am going to kill you." borough Street, May Veronica have a car or perhaps you have no patience at all with hoary When she replied that he dared not, Cave, otherwise Madame Nadine, onc."

dismal Desmonds who shake their She then went on to say heads gravely at dance clubs and

covering her with a revalver, said,

"Unless

you will marry me or livel

may have done so,'

he fired a shot into the floor by way 40, widow, of Clanricarde Gar-"I see you know a little about the of warning. Instead of yielding to this threat, the woman simply seold- dens, W., denied an allegation of law. But not much, as it does ed her too impetuous admirer, who unlawfully professing to tell for-not interest you." Laughter.) then fired on her, inflicting two tunes at premises in Regen. Evidence was then called. serious wounds, which caused her to" Street.

months.

Mr. Rochford (defending, to Sergeant Goddard): She gave you some good advice?

Sergeant Goddard: Yes. Mr. Mead: She said you would have a daughter.. That did not

be detained in hospital for some, Mr. Knight, for the Commis- When Deville appeared before his sioner of Police said the defend judges Mlle. Kerschmeyer was call- ant had a room at some tea-rooms ed as a witness against him, but for which she paid a guinea a she pleaded for his acquittal. "He week. The premises were visit is not a bad fellow," she said, "I ed by Station-sergeant Goddard cause you any consternation? am living with him now, and shall with his wife, and Police-con- (Laughter.)-No, sir. (Laugh- marry him very soon." mance so curiously begun is not to stable McGrath on different occu-ter.).

get the joint clean.

The ro-

!

gaiety; they, at any rate,

not have to fight,

Shadows Before.

will 'COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN THE "MAIL."

Entertainments.

The responsibility for the way the world is going to-day -for the unrest and rumours of wars-must be laid at the door of the elder generation. It is they who are aping youth and crabbing its style at the same time. They won't get out and leave the field free, and -they can't get on..

There are, of course, as ever

June 7-Queen's Theatre; "Bar- de vs The Magnificent."

June 7-World Theatre; "What| Happened To Jones."

June

Name is W Star Theatre; "Thy

Woman.

June 7-Dinner Dansant-and Ex- hibition Dancing at Cafe Restaur

ant Parisien.

June 7-Tea Dance, Cafe Res taurant Parisien. 4.80 pim.

'June 7-Irako's Circus, New Re-] clamation Ground, Fraya..East,

Entertainment

Messra.

Kimberley, Road, Kowloon, valuable household furniture, 10.30 am.

June 10-An assortment of Curios

room, 2.80 p.m.

Supt. Divisional-I ma pector be interrupted, for in sentencing sions. Defendant was seated nt Deville to four months' imprison- a table on which was a black Frankton, who executed the war-was, particular sets of supposed- ment the Court gave him the bene cushion and a crystal. She asked rant, stated that the defendant ly smart people who deserve a fit of the First Offenders Act, the constable to hold the crystal said, I only do this to keep my good deal of the strictures which Wanchai, 9.15 p.m.

Its June 10 "Squeukettes" perform- which meant that he was immediate in his hand, and she said he had kiddie. My husband is dead, Youth as a whole draws upon its ly released.

come from New Zealand, and told have done it for charity. Someone head. They are the people with ance at the Peak Club in aid of him a tale of property with some-said, 'Why not do it for yourself? Elib tongues and sluggish intelli-Lady Clementi's AFTER THIRTY YEARS. thing valuable upon it. He paid and that is why I came here, and self-importance are in in-

gences whose extravagant ideas Fund and M.C.L., 9.30 p.m.

Sport [in June 11-Firal her 10s. 6d. When Goddard and Others are doing it everywhere.

game of the Hone Middlesex Hospital has just re

Kong Baseball Assch., Happy Val- ceived an unexpected gift of £20.is wife went to the room the de- I have done it all my life for verse ratio to their usefulness.

"All the same, however, I think ley. Thirty years ago a successful opera- fendant inquired whether he charities.".

Lammerts' Auctions, tion was performed at the institu- would have a 108, 6d, or a guineaMr. Rochford submitted that that, as a whole, there is far less

nonsense about the younger gen- June 8-Piecegoods firm of Sang tion on a boy who had suffered reading, and the sergeallt chose what the defendant Was eration than about its fathers, Loong (in liqubilation). from birth from a fixed faw. A the former. She told him to hold doing was merely an enter There is far more honesty among Lammert Bros. Sales Room, noon. piece of bone had grown over the the crystal in both hands, and tainment, and it was neces- themselves and far less sham and June 9At 7, Torres Bldgs; hinge of the faw, and an entry in after a pause she said: "I see sary before a

conviction hypocrisy. the case book shows that the bons had to be chiselled away.in order to you have two children; a son and that there should be a profession *** daughter and inquired if that to tell fortunes. Defendant never

Why Be Slaves? On Sunday in mall week a middle was so. The officer did not did that. She told her visitors Often it is pointed out to me at Moses, Lammert Bros, sales aged man walked into the hospital answer. Defendant went on to that she was not a fortune-teller. as another instance of the sad and left a donation of £20 towards say that his son was fond of Mr. Mend said it would be pass youth has come to to-day the reconstruction fund. He was music and would be a good ridiculous for people to pay 108, that young men are slack,'' un-

June 8-Meeting of Marine En- the boy of thirty years ago now a musician, that he would not wanted for an entertainment of that ambitious, and would rather play gineers Gulid of China (H. K. sailor in the mercantile marine, to get his living by music, but soft. When people paid for it in than work. per branch), 67, Des Voeux Rd., Ct, would be very successful in busi- | charities they did it for the wood, Personally, although I am a June Annual meeting of iness and travel a gond déal. She of the cause and know that what firm believer in hard work as shareholders of Peak Tramways Co., motor lorry skidded on added Heay not be all that he they were told was nonsense the only way of getting you any Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, 11 a.m. the wet road at the function of should be; but let him alone, you There was nothing in this case where I don't see why young men, Miscellaneous,, Queen's Road and Hillier Street Will never need to worry about that would cause trouble to the should work so frightfully hard June Piano recital, at St. yesterdayIt rátokia rigshaim as he will be cleres and very listener, but he had had cases that they become slaves to a John's Cathedral Hall, by Mr. and eventually ended its career successful, he asked if the where very dangerous things had machine. If you have a tremend Harry Ore's pupils, 5.30 p.m. against an electric lamp stan- sergeant had a daughter."No," ben said. He fined the defendant ous talent, then you want to work June 9Open Air Whist Drive dard. The lorry, desha and he replied, and she rejoined, "T 926, with 210 costs.

for your own satisfaction. But in aid of M.CAL on the green of the lamp standard all caufered consée that you will have 3 one."

Errors if you have to sit in an office all Police Club, Happy Valley. 8.80 p.m.

June 20--St. Peter's Club social, day, and do the same old thing for service, men, siderable damage. The ricaka Laughter:)

[the] Jund 24% Whist Drive at St.

of John's Cathedral Hall, 8.30 pm.

PiJuhe Lanbira lecture by Dr.

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Shethan Amrod palms, Bocialism is not a constructive that you did

the crystal, and said: theory but an expression of day before, then

have lots of money, dissati

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