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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931.

The British Consul-General in FINED FOR MORPHIA

with admiration and perhaps awe.

Canton informa the General But we must sadly confess that Chamber of Commerce 'that he is in the results seldom justify, in our receipt of a telegram from the opinion,. the price that might Chairman of the British Economic It Mission stating that the Submission have been so worthily paid.

la now called the Cotton Mission, would seem that those young men and should never be referred to by do not always get value for their its former name.

money. They attend lectures or

The Hon. Mr. Tyo Chuan-gen classes, we are aware, and per- altas Kwei-to, mamber of the

'Committee haps write and read under the Executive

of the

INJECTIONS.

Three Chinese Addicts in Police Court.

سمیت۔

Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 31.

As a sequel to the discovery by. Customs Officers of syringes and morphia in a house hero, two Chin-

printed, which is expensive and Society of the University of Hong Medical Officer, General Hospital,

sald that on December 23, Ave Chinese were brought to him for oxumination. He found that all the

eagle eye of the master and re-National Government, President of ae have beer. fined $200, or in de ceive at the end of the term a the Examination Yuan, ex-Chan- fault three months' imprisonment, cellor of Dr. Sun Yat, Sen's Univarand a third man $50, or one month

in default. highly embellished certificate or

sity of Canton, is giving a public

All three were riekahın pullers, diploma. Unfortunately these lecture on "The Value of Chinese documents are rarely worth more Literature and its Position in the and were the occupiers of a house

to the Chinese in which Injections were given.

Dr. G. T. Edward, Aasistant than the paper on which they are Cultural World”

Kong to-day, at 5.15 p.m. in glossy and chowy enough. If the Great Hall. subjects of any usefulness are

Mr. A. E, Steed who has recently taught at these schools, either the

arrived from Shanghal, has been five had Injection marks. Some of students have an utter incapacity appointed Art Director of Milling-them had so many that it seemed that they had been frequently in- for understanding them, or theyton, Limited, Hong Kong Branch, i are not taught in the best possi-as from to-day by the Managing jeeted for a long time. At the time ble manner. We suspect that the Director, who is at present visiting of examination none of them was the Colony. Mr. Steed only recent-under the influence of morphin. He methods are sometimes haphazardly arrived in Shanghai from Lon-could not say whether the marks and lacking in thoroughness, and don, where he was engaged in or were marks of morphia injection. that the absence of proper super-ganising advertising campaigns and hospital a very, fine quality of vision leads the tutorial staff, or designing publicity matter for lead- morphia was

ing national advertisers in Great purpose of injecting patients, and usually after injection no marks president, or managers

Britain. Mr. Steed's ability as a school to regard their obligations poster artist in London brought him were left behind. In the present case the men must have used a with a detachment admirable in an contact with some of the largest

so many marks on their bodies. philosopher but not in those who agencies In that city and he is crude form of morphla to have had undoubtedly a great acquisition to have the destinies and future

the Hong Kong branch of the firm. Several men had marks of injection carcers of adolescents in their con- He will have charge of the design on both thighs.

the Peak ing of the displays in trol.

Mr. Steed's Trams and Stations. qualifications were recognised upon his arrival in Shanghai and he was

of the

GLEE SINGERS.

ANOTHER DELIGHTFUL CONCERT.

If our purely superficial re- marks, which no more than touch the surface of the evil, result in seon appointed Studio Manager. the Government setting up a Board or commission to enquire into the manner in which these but with those sporadic "houseschools are conducted, the of education" which crop up with methods of teaching and the the abundance of mushrooms and

nature of the matter taught, we which seem to teach their disciples shall feel, in the words of the dog- a little of everything but nothing gerel, "some thing attempted, in particular. To continue the some thing done," by having rais- metaphor, they rise almost in aled the blinds of these numerous night: a house that has long and pernicious establishments. heen empty suddenly shows to all who pass by. in immense letters, that not only the "three r's," but other mysteries besides, are "in- stilled into the minds of the young" at a moderate fee.

News in Brief.

being used for the

In reply to the Magistrate, wit- ness stated that among people like the accused crude oplum or morphia injection was quite common.

Mr. A. H. Gridley, of the Cus- toms Department, gave evidence that he and two Malay officers went to a house at 2nd mile, Pahang Road, where a search was made. In a sort of shelf, high up on the wall, just beneath the colling, one of the Malay officers found a cylinder and plunge, otherwise known syringe, kept in a piece of bamboo cut in two. Two small packets of drugs and another syringe were discovered. The men in the

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a

BEAUTY OF FOLK SONGS.

The community is grateful to the also Westminster Glee Singers for yet house, eight in number, including another delightful concert last accused, were arrested and the ex- night, in the course of which the hibits were sent to the chemist for beauties of English and Scottish analysis. It was certified by the ballad music, and old English folk chemist that there were traces of songs, were made evident. It Is morphia in the drugs.

ensy to understand that? Customary In China. Americanz received the folk Sim Pee, one of the men who had songs with acclamation,

marks (as Mr.numerous

denied having Edward Branscombe informed us); been injected in Malaya, but be they revive a type of melody that admitted having being injected in has been all top long neglected. China about a year ago. In his In a series of offerings of native land, the majority of the

One case of diphtheria was noti-quito fled from Kowloon yesterday.

Quarantine restrictions have been According to the Hong Kong imposed against

arrivals from Dollar Directory there are 612,810 Bangkok on account of plague. Chinese in the Colony, at least ten

of thirty-three schools only. At

The lowest open air temperature first sight this would seem most yesterday was 59 degrees. inadequate, until one considers humidity at 10 am, was 62 degrees that there are hundreds of un-and at 4 p.m. 64 degrees.

un-

voices.

from

of

the

10-

+

In celebration of 50 years' ser- sustained excellence, perhaps the inhabitants underwent such injec- songs, given by tlons, and he simply followed their per cent. of whom must be be-vice the Canadian Pacific have cycle of Scottish tween the ages of ten and sixteen, issued a useful wall calendar for the Singers, made the strongest im- example. With what he was inject pression upon an enthusiasticed he could not say, but he was but the Directory gives the names 1981.

audience. One particularly ad-sure that after an injection he felt mired "Will Ye No Come Back a little better and brighter.. Opium

fo suffer The Again," most sympathetically sung smokers used

and "Turn Ye To Me," in which the stomach ache, and an injection modulations were exquisite.

usually relieved them Mr. Albert Greene, with

the their pain. Injection Was in his village, known and unheralded schools in Stated to have five mace of opium chorus, was encored for his robust customary

one examined a new the Colony sorne of which do not concealed in his stocking in Temple singing of sailor shanties, and later and if

a arrival from his native place, one even advertise in the equally Street yesterday, Li Ki-kuen was caused great merriment with numerous Chinese newspapers at the Kowloon Magistracy this Somersetshire folk song, "Young would find marks on his body.

an encore, an Ton Ah-po, the first accused, said ROWELL-At the Victoria Hos-

morning fined $40 or three weeks' Richard," and as

oddity entitled "The Tithe Pig." that he had been vomiting blood These items constituted part of a and suffering from pain on pital, on January 30, 1931, to There are night schools and day mi Mr. and Mrs. T. R Rowell, a schools, typewriting schools and

stomach for a long daughter.

handwriting schools, political Whilst on a visit to a friend's group of Old English folk songs chest and the schools and technical schools, house at 14 Granville Road, Eleanor which were beautiful in their very time. All the exhibits were given to him by a friend, who told him DEATH.

Gonsalves, aged ten years, and re-simplicity.

Master Desmond White deserves that he could be cured if he injected "private" schools and "public" aiding at 558, Nathan Road, was GOMES.-AŁ No. 10, Austin schools, and some which cater bitten in the left cheek by a dog a special word of commendation for himself with the drug. He admit- his singing of "Killarney," which tad that he was the creuplor of the Avenue at 2.15 a.m. on Janu- for deportment and some which owned by Master H. H. Xavier.

is old enough to be now again, and house, but he denied having used it ary 30, 1931, Francisco purport to teach graces and fine)

The estate of Wong Tai-yan, who which is so eminently fitted to a for the purpose of administering Theomotio Gomes. Funeral speech. If appearances were to died Intestate in Canton on Febru-boy's treble. Another old favourite, morphla to customers. He only in- will pass the Monument to-: day at 5.30 p.m. (Shanghai, count for anything, this Colony of ary, 19, 1929, has been proved for given as an encore was "Love was jected himself. Ho did not know Master White that his friends had marks on their probate at $49,500. Letters of Once a Little Boy." Manila and Macao papers ours should be overcrowded with painistration have been granted has a very true and sweet voice, and bodies until they showed them in

specialists in every department to his eldest son, Wong Wing-dick. he produces his high notes without the Court.

Ng Mung-king, the second of life, but, if it is, it has escap-

the slightest Indication of forcing.

The Scottish songs by members cused, sald the exhibits did not Hong Kong. Friday, Jan. 30, 1931. jed our notice. Manners seem to Two stowaways at the Kowloon

Magistracy this morning were of the company were greatly an-belong to him, and that he had not have depreciated rather than fined $50 or one month's imprison-preciated, as was the old Irish air, injected anybody. otherwise, or perhaps they have mont.. The two men were "The Meeting of the Waters,"

Lu Pong, the third accused, said TOO MANY SCHOOLS. been washed away by this over-employed Chinese, and pleaded effectively rendered by Mr. Ernest he knew nothing about the exhibits. guilty to stowing away on the 6.8. McKinlay, with accompaniment of He admitted that he had been in- whelming flood of education, as a

jected in China. Tiimanoek, from Manila. "A little learning is a danger- useless and inelegant sub-soll in^

Mr. Gridley said that the offence ous thing," wrote Pope, and it is which no plant of deep thought or

was a very serious one. Even if a Entrasting a foki of the Wing a saying which may be applied academic lustre can grow to per-Tai Shing shop to collect $500 on very fitly to the condition of fection.

Efficiency, too, would his behalf yesterday, Li Suk-fal, master of the Chi San plece goods education in Hong Kong. There seem to be more or less where it shop, 45 Jervois Street, has report- is little gravely at fault with was thirty years ago, so that the ed to the Police that the foki falled either the teaching or the teachers plumber not only forgets his to return with the money.

The magistrate passed sentenca of schools under direct Govern-tools, but the shopkeeper his

The master of the 8.8. Kutsang an appeal to the Paris Police as already stated, and warned the ment supervision which receive change, and the office boy to post has reported to the Water Police Chief to prohibit a series of Alms others who had been arrested to- subsidies or grants. True, the our letters; but perhaps efficiency that at about 4.30 p.m. yesterday, which they allege to be subversive gether with standard might be higher, is an americanism hard to recon- a Chinese coolie named Wong Yung to patriotism and morals. The future they would-be heavily fixed the qualifications of some cile. with, the classics. Of night (28) received Injuries to his head appeal states in general terms that or sentenced to prison even

whilst working on board the most of these films. ara German, being injected.. of the teachers better. schools, the only evidence of at-steamer, His condition is report which is strongly resented by ob and the resulta na shown tendance at them, in our experi-ed to be serious.

jective persons connected with the The Toronto Industrial Commis-- cinema industry. The Police alon announces a new industry es- by examinations more satisfac- once at least, is a drugged and

The Chief Officer of the Chief has prohibited one doubtful tablished by local men, the Toronto, tory; but this is a state of per-sleepy look and a body which, C.P.S.A.M.3. Empress of Asia, picture sending it for revision by Macaroni Manufacturing Company, fection which it is unfair to ex- even though it may be in the con- which is Iring at the Kowloon the film censorship board. to make macaroni and spaghetti. pect in a Colony far removed trol of an excellent mind, shows Docks, has reported to the Police

The partners are Italian residents from academic centres The

that mesenger boy Winning, aged LORD BIRKENHEAD'S LIBRARY.of the city, Alfredo Serdont, J. itself singularly unwillingly to 15 years, fell down the fore peak

Ricci and Enrico Bernacchio. Government schools are conduct- obey it. As for the other virtude hold yesterday, from a height of ed on the average much better which these schools presume to about 40 feet. He was attended thar are similar institutions at impart, they are, as the circum by the ship's doctor and later con-

voyed to the Kowloon Hospital. Home-County and borough loquacious bat handy phase has it, schools, and the like and if one conspicuous by their absence. For the theft of several yards of The sale of Lord Birkenhead's does occasionally hear a lift-boy We are eager to praise the blue bunting from the Royal Naval library has ended. It has yielded Reclaim with some pride that he thirst for knowledge which urges Central Magistracy this morning

Dockyard, a Chinese was at the about £6,000,

To-day's' dollar le worth 2/7.3/16)”. was at auch-and-such a college, it

college, young men to put their dollars in sentenced to three weeks hard This year Nova Scotia will pro- is kinder to regard him na en ex- the treasuries of these academies labeur Defendant stated that he duce its finest crop of potatoes since

At the

unveiling of the War

ception.

and if they were able to show that picked the stuff up in a rubbish 1916 in the oplaton of Fred B. Memorial in SE, John's Cathedral heaps whereupon his Worship ro- Kinsman," Federal Superintendent to-morrow, at 10.30 am. a collec At the moment we are not con- they had turned their money to marked "You don't find bunting of Illustration Stations for the tum will be made for Queen

Province.

Mary's Home for Disabled Men. cerned with Government schools, good account we should be filled like that in a rubbish heap,"

W.A.B.

UNDESIRABLE GERMAN FILMS. person administered morphia to

Protest by French

Patriots.

Paris, Dec. 12. The League des Patriotes issuea

himself, ho was liable to be fined $5,000 or sentenced to three years, If an over dose of the drug had been injected to a person, he might have died.

the accused, that in

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