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News in Brief

The annual general meeting of the lady helpers of the Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. will be held on Monday at 11 am.

There will be a lantern lecture on Tuesday, February 18, at 5.30 p.m. given by Dr. A. B. Wellington on "The Life History of a Mosquito."-Advt.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1930.

"BEST SELLERS”

OF 1929

OMNIBUS BOOKS

[By James Milne]

books and "Good value, as well 45

THERE are fashions in bond it is When charged at the Kowloon worth while mapping down some of that's Magistracy this morning, with the them on the literary year unlawful possession of two palra awa' It brought forth more than new volumes of of rubber shoes unemployed nine thousand

an Chinese said that he took them from "all sorts and conditions," and that a sack.

A fine of $10 was

im-is a grand army to inspect. posed.

Three Hakka women of Kowloon Chai, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, were fined $2 or 4 days in default for trepassing in a Government plantation above Kow-

loon Tong.

The annual prize distribution at, the Cannosian Institutes, St. Mary's School will be held on Monday next at 5.30 p.m. Mrs. W. T. Southorn has kindly consented to distribute the prizes.

Sentence of one month's jail with hard labour was meted out to a Chinese at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning who pleaded guilty to the theft of some wood froma timber yard at Taikoksul.

There will be a Concert organised by Mrs. Sanger at the Helena May Institute on Thursday, February 20, at 5.30 p.m. Tickets may be had in advance. Teas must be booked, please telephone Matron C.2160.- Advt.

The "boom" in war novels, especially stories by Germans, was long and almost violent, like Arma- Now it has more geddon Itself.

como

says to a reader, "Lot us have a

literature," said the great reading this kind of public, plumping for anthology. Its scope quickly widened from the connected, stories of any one writer, say Mr. Arnold Bennett's about the Five Towns, to Au- a selection of stuff by various thors. The result was wholly the "omnibus book" of the readily in- vented name, because, like a Lon don 'bus, it holde a lot of passengers, not necessarily related to each other. Actually a man called at a well- known, London bookshop the other morning and said, "We are building a new garage. What 'omnibus book' would give us the most useful hints?"

This generation calls for la dividual books and for original plays issued as books, and that is, perhaps, a little surprising, because everybody cannot master a play in print. Is it that constant practice with the cinema is giving the young

or less died away, but the absolute "best seller" of 1929 was, of course, "All Quiet on the Western Front." Next to it, no doubt, in popularity stands Dr. Warwick Deeping's "Roper's Roy," and then Mr. J. B. Priestley's "Good" Companions."

When a British novel sells by that the the thousand, it means

in, and massed reader has

the human touch therefore that which knits us all is present. Dr. Warwick Deeping has an under standing, sympathetic quality which

mind of Britain an intuitive under heart-to-heart story-talk, as between standing of colour and drama lying friends. It will do us both good." behind the bald words of a play? That is a gift in the line of Dickens, Altogether we arrive at this: and in Mr. Priestley's "Good Com That literary fashions and vogues panions" there is another natural come about in a natural, needfal and national element bound to take human way, and are the marks and the average Briton.

Even One might milestones of the time. describe the book 09 robust the short

hopeless story, once 1lterary roastbeef and Yorkshire Caring for any London library to pudding, done with something of offer, has now attained a certain the flavour of Borrow and Cobbett. fashion. But women, though they

take it all right in magazines, fuse it in book form, for

which may be mental or temperamental,

Poetry is never dead, though it has ups and downs, for the Poot Laureate's "Testament of Beauty" For snatching a gold mounted is at a circulation of 15,000 copies which has never been officially de-rattan bangle from a Chinese baby and going higher. He is old nied by the Chinese leaders in Queen's Road East, near

the enough to remember the days of the themselves, to oust all semblance Grand Theatre, yesterday, a sneak pamphlet, a medium through which of foreign control in the Settle-thief was this morning sentenced Gladstone thundered about Vatican by Mr. E. W. Hamilton to six Decrees and Bulgarian Atrocities, ment and the Concession, the

months' hard labour and 12 strokes It has quite disappeared, but the it expressed lives, purpose which position that will arise will un-of the birch.

for now public men write bly books doubtedly be a most interesting

when they have anything to Any sent piece outside a speech or a letter to the cigarette papers, ns, for instance the Lord a Chinese Chief Justice's recent volume on Magistracy bureaucracy and democracy.

sentenced

www.

For the theft of a 10 one. As is pointed out by the New Statesman's writer, neither stall at Pakhol Street,

from a Chinese woman's

the British nor any other of the at the Kowloon sixteen Governments concerned in this morning Wis

A few of our novelists have look two months*

hard labour ad back on the old three-volume the status of Shanghai has indi-t vidually the right or the power to the had served

His record sheet revealed that fashion by writing exceptionally 14 days. last long stories, and so here is another recede the International Settle-month for larceny.

"resurrection ple" in R modern ment, or, indeed, to make any

guise. Perhaps it WILS the On the ground that the complain.mustard-seed from which the change in its status. Germany,

ant and defendant had both since "omnibus hook" took a hint and en-` Austria, and Russia were former absented themselves, a summons by tered upon a prosperous vogue. [ly participants, but when they | Loh Lin, 6, Tai Nam Street against Practically, however, the "omnibus were deprived of or surrendered Pan Sui Yin. 83 Yee Kuk Street, book" seems to have arisen from their extraterritorial rights, their whom she sued for failing to provide Mr. John Galsworthy's natural her maintenance between January action in gathering the several tales interests in the Settlement did not 1923 and January 1930, was dis- which make his

famous "Forsyte revert to China, but to the re- missed at the Kowloon Magistracy | Saga" into a single, many-paged, maining Treaty Powers. Conse- this morning by Mr. T. S. Whyte not too expensive volume. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1930.quently, even if Britain, Japan,

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To-dny's dollar is worth 6/-d.

Sem

How Girls Propose:-People have tarted asking the perennial question, "Should women propese?" Surely they do nowadays.

An unmarried Eterary woman said if she had to propese to a man, she would do so by letter, and this is what she would write:-

"Dearest Boy, I am doing this not because I want to, but because I feel you want me to, and just on account of silly old fashion, you think you are not justified. Bo I am going to · tell you, dear, that the one thing I desire most in life is to be your wife. May 17"

A writer of short stories took the

subject more seriously and suggested that the following letter would stir the heart of the average man:-

"Beloved-I am not ashamed to write it because it is the name I have come to call you by to myself-I want you. I want you to marry me. I am not afraid to ask you; I am happy to believe that you would have asked me before this if you were not the dear, shy man you are.

I shall be impatient for your answer, not because I have any doubt what it will be--my woman's intul- tion cannot be wrong in a thing like this---but because I shall then be really able to call myself

Your Very Own.”

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

The Soviet Mailed Fist: Hankow's Sing Song Girls: The English Si ngers: Chinese Myth Ended:

Hankow Consul's Popular Son

Soviet Pressure

in

This

America, and Italy were stupid In a report to the Police yester- SHANGHAI'S FUTURE enough to renounce their special day, Suen Chuen, driver of a public rights, the Settlement would not motor car, stated that he was driv. ing his ear along Des Voeux Road China-as many may West when he accidentally knock- It is learned from a reliable At a moment when China is pass to

that General Nobuyoshi attempting to create a favour-imagine-but would come undered down a Chinese seaman named source able atmosphere for the discus-the control of the Scandinavians, Tsoi Kan (25), near the Sailors' Muto has been selected to succeed Home. The man's left leg was frac- | General Suzuki as Chlef of the Dutch, Belgians, Spaniards, sion of extrality it is well to be

tured and he was removed to the General Staff, The appointment reminded by "n correspondent re- Portuguese, and an assortment of Government Civil Hospital in the is expected to be made on Febru cently in China," in the New South American Republics. The car. Statesman of January 13, that French Concession, of course, still "past experience has shown that remains a separate entity and,

therefore, a separate problem. the best way to allay internal dis- cord and silence extremist criti-

The writer referred to seems to cism is to raise the question of be getting nearer the kernel of the foreign privileges. Once the whole nut when he admits that to cut the Chinese Government is engaged China's proposal in a dispute with the Powers no

Gordian knot by rescinding the ambitious General dares to revolt Concessions would evoke a serious

Sing Song Girls.

possible, and that Nanking chooses And figures lest he be labelled 'running dog International crisis. He considera,

this opportunity for as graceful an exit as possible, or may we assume sing-song girls concerning of the Imperialists." "*'

however, that such a move is pos- RUSSIA may go too far, in the INTERESTING facts Having

opinion of the Peking and Hankow are shown in a chart pre.

that in repudiating this protocol, by said this the correspondent in sible if only to raise the whole Tientsin Times: The Manchurian pared published

and

by the

which China brought a cassation of question, who is clearly not with-question and keep it before the Government may be impotent, in Municipality. The figures show that military punishment, Nanking is pre- pared accept responsibility and that Chiang Kai-shek will lead out some inclination to view world till a solution is found the face of continued Soviet pres- there are altogether 2,247 sing-song Chinese questions from the which will accord with National-aure: the Nanking Government is girls in this city, most of whom are

in. no position to impose. Its will between 16 to 22 years old. About his model army to the North to

47 per cent of those girls are punish the wicked Russians?

Intter contingency is so remote as to Chinese angle, proceeds to deal ist ambitions. He is fearful, upon Mukden, or to resume the natives of Hanan, 26 per cent.

be unworthy of consideration, w’:leb, with the intention to make the however, Icat the Powers respond struggle against Moscow, at the natives of Kiangau and 18 per cent. natives of Hupeh.. Nearly 80 per

fudging by the plight and treatment we have witnessed of the frost Provisional Court in Shanghal ato any such challenge by the moment. But further attempts to cant. of the girls are without any

bitten unfortunates that have return- ed from Honan is perhaps just as purely Chinese institution, which, despatch of battleships and bat-override the provisions of the Pe-school education.

king and Mukden Agreements will

well for the model army. In any it is widely believed, is only the taliens-why, he is careful not to sow the seeds of continuous frie- The English Singers

event, repudiation throws the respon first move in a campaign to indicate and suggests instead tion and trouble in the future,

FLORA Mann, Nellie Carson, sibility directly on Manchuria, which automatically puts an end to the a commission of legal experts and will not, ia the change the whole status of Shang-

Lillian. Berger, Norman Stone, unfed China myth and 'the pretence hai. This huge city, it is pointed "who, after full investigation, strengthen Russia's position in Norman Notley and Cathbert Kelly that Nanking controls. It is, how Internationally known as the English aver, unfortunate from a politician's out, is divided under three juris- may be able to propound a solu- bring another factor Japanese hams by the Empress of Asia from they themselves become the medium the Far East. They may, indeed, Singers of London, arrived in Yoko- point of view that by this action dictions. Firstly, the business tion which, if not entirely satis-opposition into the picture, for Vancouver. They were welcomed to of the confession of fallaro. centre, the dock district, and a factory, will at least be acceptable while Japan can view without Japan by Mr. A. Strok, who conduct- oà their entire tour of the large residential area, are in all parties."Which is indeed, alarm the operation of the rail- Orient, Mr. K. Yamamoto, manag. Popular Censor cluded in the International Settle very kind and obliging of him to Agreements, it can hardly show Theatre, Tokyo Asahi Theatre, Osaks, duties in charge of the Press Sec- Way on the basis of the 1924 ing director of the Imperial COMDR. R. W. Wilkinson, whó re- linquished on December 18 his Mr. K. Nakamura, ment, originally the British and suggest! The seventeen Treaty similar unconcern if Russia re-

tion of the Intelligence Division. at American Concessions with their Fowers, it is to be hoped, will do news ita attempts to Sovietice the and by more than 65 press represen

tatives. The English Singers of the Admiralty, and is the son of Sir later extensions. Secondly, the no such thing. The encyclopediRailway zone. The Japanese were London gave their irst song recital William Wilkinson, Late Consul Gen- eral at Hankow, as hoen in the French maintain a separate Con-cal correspondent of the New opposed, in principle, to the con- in Japan in the famous old en- fiscation of Russian interests in they appeared in Osaka, Kobe and

thrensment hall in Kyoto, Later Navy since 1888, and much of his career - Wal served in command of cession, now mainly residential in Statesman himself furnishes the the Railway; they would, we be Tokyo, and arrived in Shanghai on destroyers. In the Ribble he was character. Lastly, the old city, whole facts of the position with lleve, be just as opposed to the February 5taying at the Cathay present at the landing in Gallipoli, and the manufacturing districts, the out the aid of any legal commis elimination of Chinese Interests Hotal Their season there at the therein in favour of Russia. The Town Hall commenced on Thursday, poorer quarters, and the vast and slon, and these facts are quite continued use of the mailed-flat February Đi temujan terrible slums where dwell the sufficient to instil a keen desire on by the Boviet Manager seems like The Harbarovsk Protocol Films in connection with the pre working masses,

asses are under the part of the seventeen Treats ly to arouse intense, resentment Chinese

not only Manchuria but REPUDIATION of the Harbarovsk paration of the forthcoming Gallipoli controlled districts

end,

was mentioned in despatches. In the Verulam he served with the Grand Fleet Commander Wilkinson is to Act as Taisonoficeric between Admiralty and British Instructional.

rule. The Chinese Powers to maintain the status quo | throughout, China, End may mean:Protocol by. Chinay if true, opens [film, where his special experience: al «!

form

which wolencirolás.

up a new field of apeculation on the Dardanelles, coupled with aff so far as they individually and the indennite perpetuation of Sino Chinese politics. Are we to assume tact and cheery manner, should prove

are concerned.

Russian tonalőrák,

that the unity, farce is no longer valuable.