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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1930.

THE

AND

CRIME.

"THE CRIMINAL IS NOT 650 VERSIONS OF THE CHEMISTRY

A HERO."

BIBLE.

India.

Doctor on the Need for Translation Puzzles in

Executions.

TEETOTAL ROGUES.

N

There is more attention paid.

P

BIG SCALE BUSINESS.

Six hundred and fifty versions of to the comfort of the rogue than the Bible and a record circulation in

1920!

to the comfort of the decent mari:

By adding twelve There is too much glorification o the criminal and his cowardly sions to character is left out of considera.troducing tion."

ney the list and the Eible to thousands of new renders the

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Work of Government Analyst.

STRAITS. INVESTIGATIONS.

CHINA MAIL.

ROUND THE CINEMAS

"HARMONY AT HOME" COMING TO-MORROW.

A FAMILY PROBLEM.

NEW

· ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.

WING to the CONCERT to be

held at Volunteer Headquar ters, the Band Concert to be given on the Cricket Ground by kind per An American family's big pro- mission of Major, J. B. Tayler and biem would seem to be what to Officers, the Somerset Light Infan make of an offering in his late try, is postponed from Fridey. teens who simply will not come to August 8, to FRIDAY, August 16,

amicable understanding about at 5.30 p.m. This situation is forcibly de- and in-

a job.

monstrated in

"Harmony At

China Mail"

The annual report on the work ing of the Government Analyst' Department in the Straits Settle venments last year contains much in-,

Information, both curious

TO LET may triguing.

Work for the Police is under Home." opening at the Queen's To LET. From August 25 till the Dr. James Devon, of Glasgow. British and Foreign Bible Society taken in connection wien rotors tone am directed by Hamilton flouse on the Peak, State cesty fo Theatre, il talking Fox Movie end of September a fully furnished a medical officer in Scottish pel during the past year has proudly tons

or general investigations. sons since 1895, made these com-upheld its claim. to make the Gos Thirty-five exhibits, associated Me Fadden and featuring William stalled. Apply Box No. 69, ments on criminals when he gave pel the world's "test seller," with poisoning cases were examin-Collier, sen.

A visit to evidence before the Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons Chowringhee, and a chat with the of these and included oplum, roun consisting which is considering the Capital Rev. A. Williter Young, the Cal- atropine, aconite, chloroform,aughter, played by Marguerite Punishment Bill.

cutta Secretary of the Society, re- formic acid, metaldehyde, hydro- Churchill a younger daughter. For 16 years he served as one | yealed some of the romance that les chlorie ne ich and

played by Charlotte Henry; and a of the Prison Commissioners for behind this remarkable achlerement, cyankle. › In two

son. aged seventeen, played by writes a Stateeman representative. poisonous material maliciously in-Charles Eaton in this screen ver When entered the Bible troduced into food, namely wash-alon of Harry Delf's stage hit.

right-ing soda and gum benzoin, was

"The Family Upstairs." from found,

Scotland.

"There is a tendency to-day to treat the criminal too much from the standpoint of the criminal and ten little from the standpoint of the community." he declared.

their sex.

House

the Bible-House-in-od-Poisons were identified in 11

potassium саяса ron-

Collier plays the father of a of an older

1928,

"LONE STAR RANGER.""

CLUB LUSITANO.

CONVITE.

SHADOWS BEFORE

AO por este meio convidados todos os Exmas. Socios do Club Lusitano

C Sung Exmas. I found it was

Familias e as demais membros da named. ly

It is filled

Comunidade Portuguesa, para. se to. floor.

velling with books Six lot of exhibits in counter-

reunirem na "Sain Luis, de -yet all one Book. There are in feit coining cases were received.

Camoes" do ron abolish capital punish stock nearly 400.000 Bibles. Now in two of these complete coining feminine role in "The Lone Star p.m., afim de assistirem a recepeas Sue Carol, portraying the leading Sexta-feira, 8 de Agosto, es 15 mesma Club, na ment you would have more, devent Testaments and Portions, in sixty quifits

were seized and in each Ranger," Fox Movietone all talking em honra de S. Exn. Revma, o people killed and more wretches languages and dialects. On an case the coins were, made from a kept alive. There are people with javerage. 15.800 books are issued | tin-head allay.

In all the cases Queen's on Sunday, was selected as Costa Nunes.

border romance, coming to the Snr. Bispo de Macau, D. Jese da month no moral or social sense quite each

for distribution where na apparatus, for coining one of the 13 Wampus baby stars in Bengal, prepared to do anything if their throughout

Bihar and was found the colns were made of Orissa and Assam. The chief sales, brass coated with silver and were O'Brien, who enacts the character

A. E S. ALVES, necks are safe."

She is featured with

Secretario. Hanging the Guilty.

I was told, are in Rengali and Hindi gomarkably good imitations of

Hong Kong, 6 de Agosto de 1930 Dr. Devon said he did not think but many thousands are bought by genuine currency.

of a Texas Ranger. They appear the law should distinguish be people speaking Oriya. Urdu. to be imported. The total num

O'Brien and Miss Carol furnish tween murderers on the ground of Lushai, Assamese and Nepall, and her of coins examined was 1.661. the love interest in this Zane Grey less numbers by the aboriginal and Eighty-one lots of crackers were Grail, Lee Shumway, Russell Simp- story of the West. Walter Me- is possible to hang the tribal peoples among whom educa- examined and a large proportion son, Warren Hymer, Elizabeth Pat wrong man," said Del Devon, "but {tion is slowly but surely spreading.

was found to contain prohibited terson, and Caroline Rankin hend, that is not sufficient reason for

"Luxury" Bindings,

Ingredients. Other articles in deciding that on no account will Besides an

array of cloth and eleded a bomb, & pistol, several the large supporting cast. we ever hang the right one," paper bound volumes there are rerret-ink documents,

A. F. Erickson directed the pic gold Dr. Devon rited cages of mur-Dibles and New Testaments in In-bangle, a "gold" inget made of tinture, and A. H. Van Buren was in der where drink had played a pro-dian zernaculars, printed on, India an axe connected with a robbery charge of stage direction. minent part, and the chairman, paper, and bound with the same from a steel box, clothing in a the Itev. James Barg asked if finish as the English Bibles. There vitriol threwing case, etc. drink was responsible in a great are always some who are anxious to Thirty-three samples of explo many cases of murder.

have these luxury" bindings. Thesives not liable to testing under The curious thing is that in printed sheets are sent to the best the Arms and Explosives Ordin- the old days there was serious London binders who finish and gilapce were inspected for identifien- drinking," Dr. Devon replied, "but the books more cheaply and better tion. the younger generation io-day is than they can be done in this coun- Revenue Officer Asphyxiated. showing greater recklessness try. Needless to say the full cost)

The work required by Depart and premeditation for evil than of such books is recovered, and the ment, other than those above men- the old one. The prisons are not loss on salea is limited to th tioned included, the examination Alled with drunkards to-day, but "missionary editions in cloth or of preserving spirit, paint, a por- with teetotallere not all, of paper which at nominal prices are tion of high tension" cable and course and they are filled with a easily within the reach

documents. A portion of baller rotten bad lot."

The Rev. James Barr: You are not suggesting that teetotaller are more inclined:-

man.

of every

"DANGEROUS CURVES."

:

To-day

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Entertainments.

Queen's Theatre A sixty-four years old wall"Hollywood Revue." familiar to amusement seekers To-day- Star Theatre, throughout the world has been "Fighting Love.” brought to the motion picture To-day-World Theatre,

It is the tuneful whine of "Shakedown" and "Virgin Queen." heard in the eirepa steam calliope and It is} To-day Majestie, Theatre; Clara Bow's new Paramount talking

"Dangerous Curves," "Three Sinners."

To-day Central. picture.

"Dangerous Curves." The steam calliope first joir-

To-day Wellington cireus in 1885 with Concert, 8.30 p.m.

screen.

ed

the

scale was analysed in connection the Hagenback-Wallace show. To-morrow. Volunteer with a boiler explosion in a local factory and a number of samples of sand was analysed in connec- Hon with a land purchase.

Theatre

Barracks

Head-

It Was a tremendous sc-quarters Concert; 9.30 p.m. sation and proved grent August 9 Indian Recreation crowd gatherer. One by one the Club Concert. other shows took up the calliope

Home Mails. At the request of the Master until now it is as much a part of the To-day-Inward from America Allendant an investigation was

circus as "big-top," lemonade, and ports and Europe via Siberla undertaken into the circumstances peanuts and elephants.

(Shinyo Maru). in which a Revenue Officer was

All phases of circus life from the To-morrow-Outward for Europe asphyxiated while searching c

action in the rings to the colourful via Marseilles (Haruna Mara). ship. It was demonstrated that routine existence of the performers 6 p.m. the wet native rubber which was were pictured in the new Row

Land Sale. contained in the hold' was capable

picture. The "It" girl portrays a of rendering air irrespirable by equestrian act to a clown stunt Junction of Embankment Road August 11-At P.W.D. offices. performer who turns from an one lot of Crown land at the the substitution of carbon dioxide Richard Arlen, her leading man, and Duke Street, Kowloon, 3 p.m. for oxygen.

Business on so large a Reale, and in so many languages, means thar translation and revision are always Dr. Devon: I am not suggest going on. As almost every rango Ing that it was teetotalism in any of hills in Assam has its other sense than it was drunken-own Janguage

used one

not ness. You sec drunkenness in the be

surprised to hear that old days did one good thing-it the Calcutt Auxiliary haz gave a man a sore head after the longest language list of any of wards and made him think. Now the Bible Society's agencies. No adays young people get drunk on house of commerce is able to keep the pictures and God knows what in touch with so many and diverse else, and their attitude towards constituencies in quite the same

fe is appalling,

way as the Bible Society. Dr. Devon said that he had

Who would imagine, for example, been too long in prison life to that it takes us long to send New have any great belief in the reTestaments to the Mars, or Lakher. forming influence of imprison tribe as it would to send a carg men had ment.

from Calcutta to London? Train.

to Burma, and as the tribes-

the roar of the

never seen

takes the part of a tight-wire, per- former.

-

"THE THREE SINNERS."

Lammerts Auctions, To-day-At Sales Room, Dad- "Dangerous Curves" will be the dell Street, postage stamps, 5.15. one feature on the programme at the p.m. approaching ma- Central Theatre for five days, be- chine filled them with consternation. ginning to-day.

To-morrow-At Sales Room, Dud- The honthen thought it to be a token.

dell Street, household furniture of approaching calamity but the

etc., 2.80 p.m., Christians, calling to mind some

Sports

was a sign of the second coming and again the greatest tragic actress passages they had read, imagined it

Incontestably proving herself once. waited expectantly in that hope!

The latest version under

on the screen to-day, Pola Negri To-morrow-Hong Kong C.C. showed at the Majestic Theatre "At Home," 5.30 p.m. sideration

for the Abor Miris last night in her latest starring pic- over the North Arakan the strongest and largest tribe in ture for Paramount, "Three Sin- John's Cathedral Hall. 8.45 p.m.

To-morrow-Whist Drive, mountains on ita way the North East Frontier Tracts.

"Horrible Thinga." steamer, country boat and carrier "People must reform them have to be impressed into the ser- selves," he Enid.

"Whenever vice when these people want Scrip people try to reform others they tures, and although their evangelis make a mesa of it."

He agreed that executions were many of them are getting a know tion was only begun 25 years ago horrible thing; "but", he added, ledge of the Book. Sometimes this "you have to do horrible things in is revealed in strange wayя: A this world in order to preserve short time

an aeroplane the, health of the world."

assed

Speaking of the possibility of Yoma keeping the knowledge of an exe- cution from other prisoners Dr. Devon said: "It cannot be done." Anyone who knows anything aboutj prisons knows there is a kind of wireless system among the prison- org. They know a great deal more about what is going on than 'some of the officials."

Dr. Ethel Bentham asked Dr. Devon what kind of people were those who, he said, were only de- terred by the fear of death. "A Dot on the Lug." "They are people who have! taken a wrong mental attitude to- warda life," was the "Take the young criminals. they are accused of taking money they say they are only doing what millionaires are doing in another form. Then again they are brag- garts, and say, 'I did not ask to

answer.

If

be brought into the world."

"In short, they think they are talking philosophically when they are only talking nonsense. It in the result of an evil egoism, and-

ead of phimpering them you to give them a dot on the

lugthey understand that an- 12.

swer.

(Laughter.)

Dr Ethel Bentham: Did you Gnd many abnormal people among

the prisoners 12

Devon No: I found as many abnormal people among the officials, as I found among the criminals. (Laughter.)

The

Stat

U.S. CENSUS.

Washington Yesterday.

population of the United

estimated at approxim

ately 122,729,000, on the basis of the

Routers

inary census sigures.

Bervice

10

con-

ners." Sulting her personality and artistry to perfection, "Three Sin- nera" is a screen creation by this gifted actress which will live long in the memory of those who see this) remarkable classic, directed by Row- island V. Lee.

..

Ayal

See Special Sports Diary on page

Miscellaneous.

RADION

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

St.

The following programme will be Pola Negri la at her best in the broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong portrayal of such characters as the Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 356 Countess Gerda Wallentin, a wo- Įmetres:Ama man who passes from a society -6-6.80 p.m.-Children's Pro- leader to a painted adventuress in and Uncie. Jeff will try to enter- gramme, (Aunty Pat, Uncle Dick swift moving story which grips tain the Kiddies)." astrom start to finish.

be

Opening in her home in Dresden 6.30 to 8 p.m.-European Pro-

gramme of Columbia Records

Case Noisette Suite" |derson; Music Co..

(Tochalkowsky),

t' where she is happy in her love for selected and supplied by the An

lehusband and child, rushing events ed carry her to ja supposed death, trenunciation of her home and child, depths of horror and glittering sin Coin a Paris gambling palace, and

eventually to genuine love,

Tullio Carminati, as the lover, eric and Paul, Lukas as the husband

D.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orchestra (9260). "Liebealeld" (Kreisler), "Zapateado" (Suraste),

Efrem Zimballst, Violin Solo (8650).

le give remarkably fine performances. "Classica"-Selection. (Ewing),

ails";

Olga Baclanova, the colourful Rus-

Squire Coleate Octet (0440),

sian actress, proves a splendid foll"Florrie Forde Old Time Medley" for dark--Pola. been adapted to the screen from a

The story has

Florrie Forde, Comediane (2780)

successful European play, "Her "Memories of Mendelssohn Second Life

CW, Sear) ROMAN

Squire Octet (8549), The Lonesome Road" Lady Divine"

ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGES.

WALANG The tribunal of the Sacred Rots In the Vatican, to which air plean for annulment of marriages are presented, examined 17 such cases in 1928 and granted 20 annulments Some of the motives for annulment given are lack of consent, violence,

Layton & Johnstone (5461). The Belle of New York

Vocal Gems,

impotence, and insanity, Most of "Singin in the Bathtub

Columbia Light Opera Co (0926), The Singing Fool Selection.

Debroy Somers Band (0754). Your Love Is All That Crays***

Norah Belaney (Soprano) (5287) 597293) Eddle Walters, Comedian. "Show of Show" Selection, pleas, are carefully preparedinol (DX15)

Regal Cinema Orchestra "not more than twenty fadiscap.8 pm-Chinese Studio Concert. pages which is a rule of the 9 p.m. Weather Report. tribunal and, of course no defen- Chinese Studio Concert continu (fantazor witnesses are allowed ed. F

the cases are non-Italian.

It is Interesting to note that allo

The verdicts are read out in Latin. 10.80p.mClose Down.

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