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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931.

racing has never been: tried, part- THE POPULATION OF

PARIS.

A The Movement to the

Suburbs.

"OVERCROWDED" UNIVERSITIES.

Sir M. Sadler Arouses Controversy.

...

ly owing to the apparent lack of a suitable site, and partly owing to the fact that the Government is not likely to support it. scheme to have a racing track for motor, bicycles was engineered in Kuala Lumpur over a year ago and the promoters even went so far as to secure an option on n site, I believe, but the Govern- ment promptly vetoed it.

According to Obvi-

Controversy has been aroused in ously, there is no room for a race the censua

geant, the provisional figures of educationul circles by the augges、

taken on March 8 tion of Sir. Michael Sadler that

CONTINUED DECREASE.

the Intransi-

DIVIDED OPINIONS.

A

ing track in Hong Kong, but show an increase of about 280,000 some of the British Universities are there are various sites in the New in the population of the Depart- becoming overcrowded. Territories--in the vicinity of ment of the Seine in the last five An excessive number of students.. Taipo, for instance-which are 20,000. in that of Paris,

years, and an increase of about said Sir Michael, were an impedi- eminently suitable for the pur-however, the "zone" of the de- Some of the raw material delivered As, ment to effective intellectual work. fortifications pose. A racing track would be a polished

with to the Universitles was insufficient- tremendous

about 40,000 inhabitants, which ly trained for the sort of work which success with the

was formerly outside Paris, has the University student ought to younger generation here, I am been annexed to the town since undertake. convinced, particularly with the 1926, the population of Paris has country," he said, "with too strong

"You can drench Chinese, who are in a better posi- in fact decreased, whereas that a dose of B.A.'s." the majority of young Europeans. tinuation of a movement toward employers of University graduates This is but the con- among educational authorities, but There is no reason-provided the the suburbs that has been going were agreed that the past standard necessary financial support is on for many years.

had been mainly satisfactory from forthcoming why an aeroplane places half a dozen miles or so would be unfortunate if the stand- Thirty years ago suburban their point of view, and that it landing ground should not be con- from the Opera were regarded asard of general education implied by structed in the New Territories being in the country. Parisians

tion to afford racing cars than of the suburbs has greatly in- Inquiries revealed disagreement

ereased.

(I have an admirable site in mind had villas in them in which they a University degree were to be ap

transported their families for Preciably lowered. Following are at the moment) and a racing two or three months in the Sum-some of the views expressed to a track built around it, with, per- mer, and from which they came, representative of the "Morning haps, an artificial lake for motor up to Paris every day if neces- Post."

eu, for

But to live all the year

Dr. Cyril Norwood (Headmaster

boat racing. The popularity of sary.

round outside the fortifications of Harrow School): I am quite in such a venture is not to be donut-was regarded as a form of exile, agreement with Sir Michael Sadler, we are extraordinarily However, there has now been a The universities are only useful to under-supplied with sports faci- complete change, especially since people who are fitted for them.

the end of the war, for the simple Sir John Gilbert (Chairman of lities in the Colony, but I am reason that there is no room for the L. C. C. Education Committee): dubious as to whether local busi- more people in Paris itself. My impression in the case of Lon-

ness men could be persuaded to invest their money in it in these times of depressed trade and a tow dollar.

News in Brief.

Mr. and Mrs. Allan film with a left for Shanghai yesterday.

"Greater Paris."

In the five years 1921-1926, the

who are

The population of Paris is al- don is that the development of excelling even "Chang" (which

ready denser than that of any advanced courses in the secondary Schroedsack also produced) by

Europe, and there is very little a larger number of students to the other capital or great

town inchoals has terded to send not only ita dramatic tension, the beauty

land available for new building, university, but students of the photography, and the in-

The gardens in Auteuil and other better qualified educationally. timate portrayal of the lives and

quarters are rapidly being built The London University Appoint-- habits of almost every jungle

over, but when they are all cover-ments Board: No doubt an uncon creature. If it is legitimate criti-

ed it will be impossible to erect trolled increase in the number of Cameron a new building except on the site University students would make it tism to compare &

for an old one. People are thus impassible to find satisfactory em- book, I think I should place

obliged to live more and more in ployment for all of them, but there "Rango" in the same category as are published in

New rates of diets for prisoners the suburbs, whether they like it is an increasing appreciation of

the Government or not. -

their services both among business Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Gazette.

employers and in almost every Tales," for it has the same sym-

branch of national life. The Blahop of Victoria will preach pathetic insight into the narrow,

Oxford and Cambridge. in St. John's Cathedral to-morrow population of Paris decreased by A prominent Cambridge Univer- cunning, primitive yet strangely at 11 am.

36,043, whereas that of the Desity ometal said that the University human "soul" of the animal, in

partment of the Seine increased was full, but it was not too full, and its natural surroundings.

Mr. H. G. Sweetlove No-

is making by 215,946. In 1926 the Depart-the various College authorities had thing could be more childlike slow but very steady progress in the ment of the Seine had 4,528.687 definitely sot their faces against

Kowloon Hoapital.

inhabitants, of whom 2,871,423 accepting more students than the than the activities of Tuan, the

were in Paris. The suburbs of staff could deal with. There was a father orang-utang, and his son

Paris, however, are not all in the time just after the war when the Quarantine restrictions been placed on arrivals from Saigon the western suburbs are in Seine- some justice have been levelled at

Department of the Seine. Kango. Perhaps from an uncon-

All charge of over-crowding might with acious sense of mischief, or per-

et-Oise and, according to the Cambridge, but that had now passed haps because they knew they

Intransigeant, the census Revised parcel post rates

of away. were being watched, these mar-certain countries are published in tion of the Department had in-ard that is

March 8 showed that the popula- While the alightly higher stand- the Government Gazette.

demanded in the en- creased since 1921 by about trance examination at Oxford, as The lowest open air temperature 1,137,524.

250,000. In 1926 it WBS compared with other Universities, yesterday WAS 74 degrees. The

helps to diminish the number, of, humidity was 78 at 10 a.m. and 85 Paris and many of the suburbs, blom of increased numbers has been The communications between candidates for admission, the pro- at 4 p.m.

although they have been improv and at is a pressing one, it was ed during the last few years, are stated. The President Madison leaves at still very unsatisfactory, and the

their

vellous creatures did "turns" in the jungle as cleverly дя George Robey or Charlie Hong Kong, Saturday, May 16. 1931. Chaplin do theirs before packed audiences, All the emotions known' to us were betrayed on their quaint faces fear, joy, greed, cunning,

facetiousness, affection, and diabolical mischief.

ADVERSARIA.

"Without fear, favour or malide."

After years of rubbish, sentimen- tality, lurid:

A Great Film

at Last.

and far-fetched melodrama, or clowning in the name of comedy,

A Work of Art.

on account of cholera.

have

for

6 p.m. to-day on a round-the-world multiplicity of local authorities to extend their premises within the Many colleges have been obliged voyage. The President leaves to-morrow at 8 a.m.

Hayes is an obstacle to many necessary last few years, but the teaching staff

improvements.

MACHINE-GUN EDITOR,

it is notified that at the expira Paris" in the eapital, after the

The inclusion of a "Greater of the University has been increas-

ed in equal proportion. tion of three months from date example of London and Berlin, I understand that the Far Eastern Advertising Comwhich has been talked about for the children of pany (Hong Kong), Limited, will, many years has now become an various local schools unless cause is shown to the con-urgent necessity. When the have been allowed Companies and be dissolved.

trary, be struck off the Register of suburbs have been united with

It was an editor with a machine- gun who killed Paris under a single municipal

the Bolshevik a film producer has at last arisen to see this film in the Central

authority, Paris, will consist of chances of capturing the centre of who has made a picture which Theatre at specially reduced

A private car, which was being the driven by a Chinese in an easterly Seine-et-Oise, and will have a

whole Department of the government in Berlin during the may claim the right to be called rates —- something like 20 cents

Spartakist rising 1918. direction along When Ernest Schoed-each and I think that the Road at 5.25 o'clock yesterday after-5,500,000.

the Shaukiwan population "great."

This is the story by Mr. Arno of something like

Doach-Flourot,' an American news- Back set out to make "Rango" [management are to be applauded noon, knocked down a Chinese boy,

paper correspondent, In one of the he made no bones about it. There on their action, for "Rango" is a near the Ming Yuen Gardena, The

chapters of a. book "Through War- to Revolution," (The Bodley Head,. was to be no "faking," no setting film which every boy and child lad was removed to the Government Civil Hospital in a serious condi-

108. 6d.). of pseudo scenes in Hollywood without exception should sce. It zoological gardens with dummy is an education in itself, apart! animals and staged fights. There from being an excellent enter- was only one way to photograph tainment and a record of skill and ston and Infant son, left the Colony Routed by German War-Soldaten und Arbeiter Rat, and the beasts of the jungle in their courage and perseverance. natural environment, and that you miss "Rango" you miss was to go and live amongst them. work of art. So this intrepid Swede, supply- ing himself with a large stock of provisions and miles of film reel, lost himself for two years in the

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tion, and succumbed to his injun BANDITS FOILED IN

RESTAURANT.

The Rev. J. Horace Johnston, B.A., accompanied by Mrs. John-

If at daylight to-day on the N.Y.K.

a

steamer Hakusan Maru, for Home.

Mr. Johnston has been Minister of

WOMAN'S SURVEY FLIGHT.

Miss Reynolds May Have To Abandon Trip.

Time Sniper.

"Their main mob, soldiers 'and. men and women from Nord Berlin," says Mr. Dosch-Fleurot, came thou sands strong up the Unter den Lin- den, crying out, All power to the

singing the Internationale,"

"When it was within twenty yards of the

of the corner Wilhelmstrasse the Government's

retreated guards

Into WII. Then, iko half a

Chicago, April 13. The marksmanship of a German helmstrasse. war-time sniper who potted heads dozen taps, as many bullets splashed in Flanders trenches routed three, down, on the concrete before the hundits by killing two when they Brandenburger Tor, the opent tried to hold up and, rob 400 bullets humming over the heads of petrified guests at a fashionable the crowd, which stopped and look- restaurant.

ed, up: On top of the Braden- The bandits, flourishing pistols, burger Tor was a machine-gun. lined up their intended victims and

"A man behind it shouted to the were proceeding to lost jewels and crowd to draw back. It stood ite cash when suddenly the German ground. Again half a dozen bullets, head waiter appeared with a shot nearer, this time, in the path be- gun, dropped on one knee, cooly tween the plane tress, after which picked off and killed the leader of the boulevard in named. The

the Union Church, Kowloon, for the past seven years, and it is largely In "Adversaria" I due to bis untiring efforts. that the Speedway recently drew at new Church, which was opened on Track for tention to the priKC.M.G. K.B.E., was erected.

April 10, by H.E. Sir William Peel, dense and dark heart of Suma- Colony. vate scheme pro tra, his only companions the apes,

mulgated for the the seladang, the sambuk, the formation of a company to de- orang-utang, and that fierce butvelop commercial aviation in the lovable Malayan tribe, the Colony, but criticised the suggès- Achinese. For a greater part of tion that second-hand planes the time Schoedsack had, to dis should be bought and dancing guise himself in the skin of an and swimming run as sidelines.

Sierra Leone, April 11. ape and actually live among the Since that was written I have read Miss Delphine Reynolds, the the bandits with the first shot. crowd stood irresolute.

Savere engine trouble has caused tree tops, waiting patiently for that the British Automobile As-daughter of Sir James Reynolds. The second bandit returned the "The leaders started to make the opportunity to get effective acciation has entered upon a to cancel the remaining stages of fire, but the German got him in the rush for the end of the WI- "close-ups of those born but shy scheme to provide a huge racing her fight to the Cape. Miss Rey heart with his second shot. The helmatrasse, but the machine-guno actors, the monkey, tribe.

speedway track, fifteen miles Pudney, tartet Lleutenant third bandit "dived through the than splashed its bullets right at

Pudney, started on March 1 from window and escaped. long, from Boston to Skegness, the Hanworth aerodrome. They

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their feet. Few were touched ex- The result of which will be the largest of its have been carrying out survey

capt by spent bullets. Dangers of this one kind in the world. The Assoc before continuing to Cape Town pairs cannot be effected here: the top of the Brandenburger Tor

I tried to Induce one of the work on the west coast of Africa

guards to let me go with him to the Jungle, sojourning in the tion also plans to construct a six

Sierra Leone, Later. Miss Reynolds, whose machine has He took me to the commander for jungle, exposed mile watercourse for motor It transpires that Miss Reynolds been fitted with floats, took off in permission. to the dangers of fever and men-speed-boat racing, a golf course, has not yet definitely cancelled, the rough water, but. found the bulk-It was the machine-gunner. Ha eating tigers. is

of the r most and a grandstand. In this Colony delayed at least three weeks and placed. She made a difficult land- daily. Vorwaerts victims of the remainder of her flight, but will be head cracked and the engine dis- was the editor of the great 3ocisty: wonderful films ever screened, to my knowledge, motor track may be forced to abandon it it re- ing without mishap.

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