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News in Brief

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1930.

CRIME IN KOWLOON

“ELECTRICITY " An Interesting Local Lecture

RESEARCH TRACED

F

Four Months for One

Piece of Wood

A Chinese contractor was fined $50 at the Kowloon Magistracy on ahargas of blasting during pro- hibited hours and the unlawful possession of gunpowder. Three

STRUGGLE WITH WATCHMEN coollea were discharged, as the contractor accepted all respon.lecture on electricity, delivered at morning, before Mr. T. S. Whyte- In the course of an interesting At the Kowloon Magistracy this albility.

St. Patrick's Hall last night. Father Smith a Chinese youth was order An application for the destruc- not until 1690 that a, systematic cane for trespassing on the Whit-

T. Cooney, S. J., stated that it was

ed to receive eight strokes of the tion of a quantity of obscene study of the subject was made. photographs and pictures, found

feid Barracks' revolver range. The lecturer traced the develop concealed in the cook house In

ment of electrical research up to for oplum offences, à Chinero, Banished in 1927 for five years, an unnumbered house in New the present day, and having re-who returned, was sent to jail for Street, was made at the Kowloon viewed various discoveries, went on eight months. Magistracy this morning by De- to detail the modern significance of tective-Sergeant Fowlle. The ap- electricity.

Though the larceny was a small! plication was granted.

Speaking of the psycho-galvanic wood-a Chinese who had

one-the theft of ons piece of reflex, the lecturer revealed the secutive terms of prison in Novem→ The forthcoming weddings are an rather disconcerting fact that by nounced of Lieut. Christopher John means of a modern electrical invener and December last year for Wood, B.N., of H.M.S. Iroquois, to tion it is possible to discover whe-months' jail with hard labour.

stealing, was sentenced to four Miss Kate Mona Enid Hallacan,ther a man is speaking the truth residing at St. George's Hotel,

or not! At least, he said, this was Kennedy Road; and Mr. James the claim made for it but its real Campbell, engineer, Messrs. Butter- value lay rather in the help it gave & Swire,. to Miss Laura to the earnest paychologist in his Woolnough Dransfield, of 11, investigation of the nature and Quarry Point, Quarry Bay.

effects of mental processes emotions.

field

One man and four women ap- peared before Mr. T. S. Whyte- Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning charged with tres- passing in a Government Planta- tion in Taipo Road. The man was fined $25 or three weeks' jail in default, while the women each fined $10 or two week's hard labour,

were

CARDINAL DEAD

Brother of Chamberlain to King of Spain

Rome, Yesterday.

The death has occurred of Car-

and

FAR EAST FLIGHT

Newspaper Magnate Now at Gaza

Jerusalem, Yesterday.

is

Mr. Van Lear Black, the Ameri- can newspaper magnato, who flying to the Far East has arrived at Gaza. He la leaving for Bagdad on Friday-Reuter.

A MONKEY FINED

Charge

only the other day Sir Alfred Knox, M.P, asked Mr. William Graham, the President of the Board of Trade, to protect the English language by limiting the was 65, was a brother of the Mar-preserve the customs of the Middle That some States in America still Overland China Mail, import of American talking films quis de Merry Del Val, Chamberlain Ages was made clear in a lecture and encouraging the production of was formerly Archbishop of Nical prits," given by Mr. S. J. Coleman to the King of Spain. Deceased on "Quaint Trials and Queer Cul- British films. The protest is and Papal Envoy at King Edward's at the London City Literary In- timely. The standardised speech Coronation. He was educated atatitute recently. After referring to of the American talk-films suffers Slough, and Ushaw College, Dur-the mediaeval practice of trying

bam.] not only from an irritating accent, but also from a poverty of phrases. The British, once the lords of language, may become, like the Americans, the slaves of slang.

dinal Raphael Merry Del Val, Pon-Dog to Answer a Murder tifical Secretary of State from 1903- 4, following an operation.-Reuter. [Cardinal Merry Del Val, who

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IMPORTED SLANG

SOVIET HONOUR

Chinese Still Held at Vladivostok

Nanking. Yesterday.

animals for various offences, the lecturer went on, to say that it existed in some civilized States to- day.

He gave as an example the fact that a police dog in Kentucky is shortly to go for trial on a charge of murder. The dog killed a num ber of sheep, and the State At

The British attendants at the popular West End picture houses In spite of the Harbarovsk Agree-torney is to prosecute. Quite re- already talk only the language of ment under which Soviet prisoners cently, too, a monkey was tried in the screen. "Says you!" "Says Eastern Railway incident, have a practice which is forbidden in detained. aa a result of Chinese Indiana for the offence of smoking, me!" the catch phrases of talk been entirely released, the German this State. It was caught smoking ing films, are now the "smart" foreign office is being requested to a cigarette in a circus, and was sayings of suburban London, and protest against Soviet breach of fined five dollars.

falth-Canton, News Agency. Hong Kong seems doomed to, a similar fate, unless the policy is changed. A girl in a crook film) is either a "skirt" or a "sweetie." if she is not a "goll" or a "Jane," and philandering elderly men, bald enough to know better, are all "sugar daddies."

KILLED IN SLEEP

Fate of Lieutenant in

India

New Delhi, Yesterday. Lieutenant Hawkes, of the

Similarly, in 1924, a number off frogs were tried at Lagos, Nigeris, for creating a disturbance in the Court. The charge fell through, because only 14 of the frogs could be found:

con-

After stealing a piece of wood, Chinese had a struggle with some district watchmen, during which

received a cut in the leg. Ac- cording to Inspector Elston, the· thief was seen to enlarge the cat with his fingers, when a watch- man came up to him.

The man was sent to the Kowloon Hospital where it was found that he was also suffering from pneumonia, This case was remanded to Mon, day.

ALLEGED TRICK Female and "Arranged” Marriage

FARMER'S COMPLAINT

An alleged case of "lying tho white pigeon" came before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magis-' tracy this morning when a Chinese married woman named Chak Sze

was charged as follows:

For that you Chak Sze alias Chak Man unlawfully did de- fraud the complainant of the sum of $110 on January 26, 1930, by means of a trick; to wit, did arrange a marriage between one Wing Loi son of the complainant and a female Wong Ling. know- Ing that the femalo had no inten- tion of remaining as the man's wife, thereby committing ап offence

commonly known 2.3 "Flying the white Pigeon." The complainant is a Ping Shant District farmer of the New Ter..

ritories.

hours, for the Police to mako fur- The case was remanded for 48

ther enquiries.

Ten Years Ago

·

[From the China Mall”.

February 27, 1920.]

To-day's dollar is worth G/ 844d.

To-day's Reflection:--

we may now say that "the war to end Summing up and striking a balanes war" was a failure, that the League

of

Nations

dead (infantile Among the curious old trials paralysis), that the Anglo-Franco- mentioned was that of a farm-yard American alliance, is a "scrap of cock in Switzerland in 1487, The paper," that civilisation has amputated cock, it was alleged, had laid an its own legs in order to escape the dis- Royal Engineers, was murdered tended that the action was wholly but to cat, drink and be as merry egg, and although its counsel con-

comfort of tight boots, and that there is nothing left now for the philosopher while sleeping in his bungalow at involuntary on the part of the bird, Landikotal.

that it had no evil animus, and vika will rob him and murder him. as re-can--for to-morrow the Bolshe The assassins, who are beller-that it was not punishable by law, Nero's fiddle, at the Roman conflagra→ ed to have been robbers, escaped, the cock was convicted, and both tion was perhaps not such an incon--

Reuter,

gruity as we have thought."

it and the egg were burned..

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

The Applause Fetish: French Love Of Shellfüh: Lady Traveller's Will: Sweeping Out Socialism

The Parisian and Shellfish

Our youths and girls are say Hong Kong. Thursday, Feb. 27, 1930. they mean "It cost me." The ing: "It sets me back, when allly exclamation "And how!" has gripped the standardised mind of the United States. We do not The invasions of Hong Kong know what it means, but it is a by American tourists can have popular cousin of "Apple sauce.” amall influence on the speech of "Let's go places and do things" is our residents, if only because we

another linguistic "reach-me- may seldom have the opportunity down worn by young America, of meeting these visitors on their and now being repeated wherever fleeting tours, or because the aver talking films are shown. age type of United States citizen Words without music kill Why Do We Clap?

War, and a Lady of Grace of St. who passes through the Colony is romance, and many of us must LEOPOLD Stokowski, director of both wealthy and educated, and have lost our shadow loves-miss has asked his audiences to desist

the Philadelphia Orchestra, ALTHOUGH the Ashmongers shops John of Jerusalem, daughter of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, widow in Paris could almost be counted at Licat-Colonel Gordon Chesney speaks more or less understand- Mary Pickford and Mise Clara from

on the fingers of one hand, the Wilson, Royal Horse Guards and. applause.. "Beating the able English.

How-when we heard them speak hands together, has no real mean, Parisian is very fond of shailfish, aunt of Mr. Winston Churchill, M.P., left unsettled property of the gross and in the street, at the door of value of £5,768, with net personalty We have noticed a few in- with the metallic scream of grind cast, when a ripple of hand-clap many a restaurant or cafe, is a little £4,704.

ing," he said during a recent con

Abraham Harris Bensen, of stances where the employees of ng steel ping came at the end of the third oyster bar which not only serves Abercorn Flaco, St. John's Wood, shops and business houses who

The English language is the movement of a Tchaikovsky By

the customers of the establishments, N.W., formerly of Elgin Mansions, come into contact with Americans common heritage of the American phony, "and to me it is disturb but delivers the oysters, all rendy B., described in his will as amer

opened on a dish, to residents in tho | chant; tailor," left, estate of - the affect the twang and the peculiar people and ourselves, and so we ginated but probably back in bar is, indeed, not always accurate, sonally 279,875. He left all his pro Tags Ing. I do not know where it or roighbourhood. To call it an oyster gross value of £88,016, with net per- Idioms of the New World.

AB

can understand most of what some dark forest in prehistoric for often it also supplies Lobsters perty absolutely to his widow, Mrs. with all vices, there is something Hollywood's film stars say to us days when strange creatures and large ses crayfish which come Beatrice Benson...

from Cornwall; but are neglected by fascinating about American slang, in the talking films. But we do made such sounds to show their the English and prawns and mussels

amusement and Interest." Whe and periwinkles and sea urchins. The First MP. And one can eaally understand not speak the language in quite the Mr. Stokowski's appeal was which look like tiny hedge-bogs, and why not very serious Chinese the same way, preserving, so far successful we do not know, but of course, emails, which are a land FOR many years it was always Sir and other youths favour such

are many varieties MP to arrive at the House of Com expressions as "hot dog," "and cents and Idioms, and even our The impulse to make a loud and of them, and the cheapest cost much mens to claim a sent at the sump-

unpleasant noise, presumably ex- less than any

that can bo

tion of a session. bought in

That_distinction:' peculiarly English method of pressive of enthusiasm how, and other meaningless articulation. But ears upon gratitude, seems to be irrepres afraid of oyster poisoning, but m

and

England Until now it has been dif- recently fell to Major H. L. Nathan, cult, to and anyone. In Paris who is Liberal M.P. for North-East Bethnal

Gream. The danger, however, does no harsh speech of American heroes stage of musical appreciation at in the

which the clipped and Tather sible. Some day we may reach a cently there has hoon A SCRTE; and Major Nathan has had harder

there was A debate

tasks than this, however, One Was and heroines has

has repea

which audiences will prefer to sit clare that if the oyster rowers when he set qut to sweep-Socialism: illence until the concert, ising it has probably been by mussel, has been1 polson-

of Bethnal dreon, altogether He did not entirely succeed, but his over, and express their thanks in which are very dangerous if they sure of success was considerable, the usual; mindner at the end of have been washed in fresh water and for both, that diszlet's... MP,*" _args

n- immediately after it But such a procedure, would are not festen-g disconcert all but the greatest stars are mussel pickers say that of London, for personal

The

Heatly popular in infe In point of fact, it is to be fear the President of the Board of musicians, and possibly even they though there are strict regulations special reasons, and has done batch: Trade, that steps be taken to pre- are inspired by a responsive, au about the chanliness of vyater beds, neighbourhood. by running. Vlada now speak louder

for the youth cla poverty tricken serve the English langu Amer

articu the assaults

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Only a few wankus nyo ba iade a vigorous reply to what he termed Kiles that liberals Keep Labour in

phrases..

come, from the tourist, but from the talking film, which is an in- strument of tremendous influence, able to make or mar the speech of young

speaking peoples.

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