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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1930.

HOW TO UNDERSTAND

THE CHINESE

"STUDY THEIR LITERATURE," SAYS LECTURER

WHERE EAST MEETS WEST

MILK EXHIBITS.

Theft From Dairy Farm Employee.

PURSUIT AND CAPTURE,

THE CHINA MAIL.

FLIGHT TO CANADA.

New Test for British Airship.

TO START IN MAY

Rugby, Yesterday.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY,

THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on SUNDAY Two bottles of milk were produced as

NEXT, April 6th the Train which exhibits in the Kowloon Magistracy this The airship R.100 will be brought usually departs from SHEUNG If we would understand the morning, in connection with a larceny from the hangar at Cardington near SHUT STATION on SUNDAYS at mental and moral character of the case in which a Chinese was charged Bedford in a few weeks to undergo 8.25 pm will leave as on WEEK-

hefore Mr. Whyte-Smith.

trials preparatory to a dight to Chineso we must study their Divisional Inspector Marks stated Canada. The overhaul work, which is DAYS, at 6.59 p.m.

literature,

observed the Rev.

that an employee of the Dairy Farm, now being carried out, will occuppy a Father Macdonald in an interest was delivering milk in Saigon Street, few weeks. The Air Ministry expects ing lecture on "Literary Links when he stopped outside a house to that the flight to Canada will start in Between East and West," to mem- take some bottles upstairs. While he May. The airship will fly to Montreal, bern of the Hong Kong branch of was on the first floor he saw the ac where a tall mooring mast has been the English Association in the cused open one of his milk tubs and erected and, after refilling her gas He ran down the bags, will return to England--British Cathedral Hall yesterday. This leat two botties.

the final meeting of the season, stairs, chased the thief, and eventually, Wireless Service. was presided over by H.E. the caught him.

ofcer Administering the Govern- ment (the Hon. Mr. Wilfred T. Southorn, C.M.G.).

During the meeting a vote of thanks was passed to Sir Henry Gollan, Vice-President of the As- sociation, who is going Home on retirement next week.

Shrouded in Mystery The origin of the Chinese people, and of their language and literature, were alike shrouded in mystery. He could and no evi- dence of the West having modified either the form or the thought of Chinese literature, or, conversely,

The accused pleaded that when he was caught he was just thinking of putting the milk back into the tub.

Inspector Marks said that the milk man had only been working ten days but within that short period he had lost about six bottles of milk altogether in the same round.

The accused was fined $10 with the jalternative of fourteen days' jail.

CHINA WAR.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Earller Cable

Peking. Yesterday, According to foreign sources of Information General Han Fu-cha

KNOTTY LAWS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Continuing, Mr. Rendall said: "T say to your Lordship that if a man was carried away by the strength of one horse, and yet the law was in his favour, how much more can we say in favour of the defendants in this case whose logs were carried away by a wind of such gigantic force? We can, therefore, say wind is an animate object."

The Flour Case

Mr. Rendall went on to say that

He was

of the literature of the West be- ing influenced by that of China. lost more than half his army the plaintiff had mentioned the The curious Chinese writing and when some of them surrendered, "Flour Case" so well-known to law the difficulty of the spoken lan-large numbers being former Kuo-studenta. In that case. the man guage might be called the second minchun men. They went over, to walked under a cockloft and the Great Wall of China.

and were reincorporated under barrel of flour fell on him. He had searched for Indirect General Shih Yu-shan.

not killed and was able to give Influences from the West expresa- In Chinose circles it is stated evidence as to what had happened. ed in the philosophical religious that Marshal Yen Hal-shan intenda But in the case before the Court, or social customs of the Chinese to appoint General Shih Yu-shan as neither the logs nor the pler could as reflected in their literature, Chairman of the Provincial Gov-any what had happened! but could not find any trace of ernment of Shantung, in place of them. China had a literature of General Wan Hsunn-tsal, who will his case was that If one or more of her own when there was only a be appointed to Honan, and General very primitive civilisation on the banks of the Thames and barbar- ism on the banks of the Rhine, and that literature was still alive

of a

Sun Tien-ying to Anhul.

Yen's New Post

Peking, Yesterday. Yen Hsi-ahan la expected to take

Ministers Meet Chiang

Shanghai, Yesterday.

Concluding, Mr. Rendall said that

his logs had caused the damaged, the Government could not say that due and proper care had not been exer-

cised.

R. BAKER,

Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd April, 1980.

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GERMAN POLICY. World Agreements to

Be Respected.

REICHSTAG ON THIN ICE

Berlin. Yesterday.

In the Reichstag to-day tho, Chancellor, Herr Bruening, in a statement of policy, declared that his predecessor's foreign policy would be continued and the inter- Warninge but No Typhoon to-day. Even the young and un-up his post as Commander-in-Chief His Lordship: But the Govern- national agreements would be res- educated Chinese had a real ap-to-day.

He made clear that he ment might put their caso as high as pected. preciation of fine writing. He re-

authorised by President this, and that is the defendants had WaS called the ten-year-old son

had ample warnings and yet had Hindenburg to dissolve the Reich- brigand in &TI obscure village,

stag if the Government's pro-. Mr. T. V. Soong and Dr. C. T. failed to take due precautions. who, on seeing the Four Books of

were not approved, as Mr. Rendall: Yes, my Lord, but gramme Confucius in his (Father Mac-Wang went to Hangchow yesterday' donald's) room had become quite afternoon. It is reported they will we know that many typhoon warn-speedy action in vital matters was lyrical in praise of some poem see Chiang Kai-shek, who is ins-ings had been issued and yet no essential. contained therein.

pecting the Nationalist troops there. typhoon had materialised.

Chiang Kai-shek is expected to His Lordship: But the defen-motion of no confidence, which come to Shanghal very soon to in-dants must know that their chattels will be voted on Friday-Reuter. spect the garrison.

were dangerous and their not taking. precautions amounted to taking a not risk, and if a typhoon had materialised after warnings had

Odes of Confucius"? The oldest specimens were poems collected together in the Odes of Confucius. The earliest of these poems were written be- tween 1765 and 1122 B.C. Tong Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese poetry, and most of the poetic writings of that period

The

USED TO BRIBERY!

"What They Do in the

Country

reported above.

TAXI IN HARBOUR.

Victims of Accident All Well.

been issued, all that could be oxid

for the defendants is that they had

The Communista

passed

N

SON DISOWNED.

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So

went off.

Mr. Rendall: But there was ed the father's office twice and his ample time for them to do so, and house three times and helped him as a matter of fact the ships were self to things. discharging on a day before the typhoon.

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The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 365

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5-6 p.m.-European Programme of Victor Records.

6-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. .7-9

p.m. Experimental Pro- gramme (at approx. 8 p.m.).

"Midsummer Night's Dream"- Overture (Mondelssohn, Op. 81), -San Francisco Symphony Or chestra under the direction of Alfred Herts.

9 p.m.-Weather Report, 9-10.30 p.m.-European gramme of Victor Records.

10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

Peninsula Hotel Relay

Pro-

It is many months since local hotel band was broadcast, but lis- tenere will again have the plea- sure of listening to one in their own homes on Saturday next when

kind.

sélections will be interspersed As on previous occasions dance

with instrumental solos. The re- lay will be proceded by recorded music from the Studio from 9 p.m. Sacred Concert

i. An interesting transmission will .be effected by the local Station on Sunday, April 18, when a sacred concert by the St. John's Cathedral choir organised by Mr. F. Mason, A.R.C.O., L.T.C.L., will

got off scot free. In this case it is teachers here were no good." quite apparent that the defendants he gave him a last chance by send- were songs and ballads, many of Another method of carrying chickens, had not been negligent after 9 a.m.ing him to school at Tientsin, but which were sung to this day that of tying their legs up, and string-on the day of the typhoon, but they soon bad reports about his boy, the band of the Peninsula Hotel Confucius had also compiled ing them to the rattan cover of a crate, were negligent before the typhoon. again began to reach him, so he will be "on the air" from 10-11.30 history, and there was the litera-was tried by two Chinese mon men yes- Mr. Rendall: But that was not decided that he was hopeless and p.m.

By arrangement with, and The he therefore disowned him ture of philosophy. Drama and terday, but it apparently failed, as alleged against my clients..

the permission of. fiction were not considered litera-bath appeared before Mr. Whyte-Smith

The father added that last year the is that my allegation

clienta

of the Hong ture by the Chinese though his-at the Kowloon Police Court charged

negligently Improperly secured their his son again went to Tientsin but management and

Hotels Shanghai tory was.

with cruelty to-day.

did not stay long. He returned on Kong loga. The lecturer then read a series The second man admitted offering a

February 19 and came home. He a special dance programme. suit- The Government's Case of interesting extracts from Chin-bribe of 20 cents as he was used to do-

alept there on night and in the able for broadcasting is being pre- jing that in the country! ese literature of various types

Hla Lordship: Yes; in normal morning forced open his (the pared, and will be relayed from Divisional Inspector Stimson stated translated into English, my of that the defendants rode on a bicycle! weather the defendants were just father's) wardrobe, took $600, aud the roof garden, which showed a curious afinity with the chickens tied in the manner the question is whether they are money very quickly, because since

ifted in bringing their logs over, but;

He must have spent the! with Western writings.

He went on to emphasise that The first man wan fined $5 for justified In doing so after the his return from Tientsin a little it is only through its literature cruelty whilst the second was fined $6 typhoon warnings had been given? over a month ago, accused had visit that one could know, the spirit on the bribery charge. and character of a nation. →Ita literature was the record of the unfolding of the life and charge-

Not Lazy at Schpol ter of the people, and if we would

When the Magistrate remarked to understand the mental and moral

In his reply, Mr. Andrewes Bal the accused that his father had character of the Chfife we must

that most of his points had been given him a very bad character in- study their literature. We found

anticipated by his Lordship. He deed, accused drastically raised them, by the record of their writ-

on three points his right hand, and remarking in In connection with the taxi ac-based his case ings, to be men and women like cident, fully reported in the China Firstly, defendants had received English "I swear by God," he ourselves, with the same love of Mail yesterday, it is gratifying to many general warnings; secondly, plunged into another statement in country and of friends. Their note that none of those who got a a special warning was given on the Chinese in which he said that his beat thoughts and feelings, were ducking in the harbour suffered any day before the typhoon; and the father did not tell the truth when

Ho at school. much of what we found anfazal-after effects beyond shock and a crux of the whole case was that the he said that he (accused) was lazy

few bruises. They were all dis- defendants, had acted too late..

He claimed that when, he was liar and distasteful in their char charged from the Government Civil was not relying on an "act of God" acters waS due to misrule and Hospital before soon yesterday.

His case was one of ipsa loquitur at St. Paul's College and at school poverty, and was not in essentials The taxi was damaged to the a general disregard of warnings in Tientsin he was never lower Furthermore, the defen-than seventh boy in class, whilst, ed the bond of literary under extent of having all the glass on its given.

and alde windows dants had kept a dangerous object when he was studying. Chinese, he standing between East and West, windscreen the more strong would be our broken, the front axle bent out of and did so at their own perli. Al was never lower than third. That, allgament, and the body generally though the defendants had done all accused commented, was not the "knocked about," according to a re- they could after 9 a.m. on the day achievement of a lazy boy,

cer port issued by the Traffic Depart of the typhoon, he was not holding The Magistrate, having ascer The Chairman, in thanking ment at Police Headquarters to-day. then to any particular time, and he tained from the father that he Father Macdonald for his able

thought that to mention sny length was convinced that his son would and learned addreas, expressed a

of time would only help to aggravate never make good, and therefore he regret that Bir Cecil Clementi had

the case against the defendants.would not reconsider his decision not been present. The subject

Hie Lordship adjourned the case to disown him, passed sentence of was very dear to their former Fra morning, before, Mr. Whyte-Smith, sident and be would have been able to make a really useful come summons for assault by Mr. ment on the address. Sir Cech Britto, of 12 Tung Hing Road, was brought forward by Mra Lelmeda

enshrined in their literature and

Chinese. The more we strengthen-

mutual sympathies..

́. Bir Ceell. Clementi

PORTUGUESE IN COURT

At the Kowloon Magistracy this sine die and instructed both parties three months' hard labour,

to find him a paralled case in the meantime touching upon res ipsa loquitur.

had himself forged a literary link gantos, of 6. Chf Wo Street between East and West in his translation of Cantonese Jove The assualt walleged to have taken place at 671 Nathan Road songs Father Macdonald had said that the origin of the Chin (Orient Buildings), Arst floor, on ese language was shrouded in my March 28. jan 2 tory, but he would suggest that the "new

Univ

sab

openin meet Bession will be on

Mr. F. G. E. Rendall was for the defendant (Mr. Britto) while the complainant appeared in person..

The hearing was fixed for April

8 at 2.16 p.m.,

YOUNG

MEAN THEFT, Crippled Cobbler Loses

Leather.

A particularly, mean type of theft was brought to light at the Koy Magistracy this morning, Chinem was charged with four places

From his

cobb

A WEEK'S DISEASES During the week ended March 29 the following cases of diseases. were not fed to the Medical Officer of Health

sada Caser Deaths. Typhoid fever. Smallpox

be broadcast.

Supporting, artistes include Mia.

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The concert will take the place at the usual 9-10.30 p.m. transmis sion.

HOW DID HE DIE?

Mystery of Corpse on Praya.

Mystery surrounds the discovery

at 7 o'clock this morning of the body of an unkown Chinese, aged about 35 years, on the Connaught Road Praya, near the junction of Centre Street. APARATAIN

On the neck there was a pro- nounced mark of strangulation and this is now the subject of Investiga- tion by the local C.I.D., Mr. T. In Murphy being personally charge

Two theories in connection with the man's death will have to be carefully examined. One is that of murder, and the other the por: sibility that the man committed auf. cide by hanging himself, the

of smallpox body being dumped on the Praya to

avold funeral expenses, and, pos sibly, unwelcome. Investi

The body was taken to the public rat post mortem Sin the

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