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may not be evidence, but if het was one of the older sort it ought| to have been taken down and re- verently placod among the other records of the Imperial War Museum. There were sergeants who could rise to edhe fair | helights When confronted with a more dirty rifle or a shoulder

JAN

PUREE DE POIS

strap left unbuttoned. And a re- CURING DRUG-ADDICTS. cruft's rifle dropped. on ptrede ads before now been the start hai jail is to be set apart for the A special sectionìin the Shang.

"Ja expected that the Government

payments on loans aggregating Will proclaim a moratorio, and, moredver, suspend the "interest Fing-point for some abaflug and

vedive. But what a fully segregated in this special section, the Colony's finances was the seating lights of stained in curing of drug addicts) All-con

victed drug-addicts are to

$90,000,000. be

It is stated that the final atraw breaking down

to the Dominion.

Fed setgeant days on heting” a

man wearing his wife amber where a compatent-physician will failure of the negotiations with should be taken down an uildelt be in charge to help them in getCanada for the sale of Labrador and given a page to itself in anyting rid of the vice. future history or regimental re-

SOVIET PICKWICKIAN PLAY. cords in the British Army, Manchester Guardian.

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A play based on Dickens's

A SOVIET COKERY,

Pickwicklan 'Papers has been Europe's largest cokery, which Sound the Wrong Way Round. completed by the Russian play was recently completed at Mar- Recently I paid a visit to u wright, Vekstern. The drama.nitogorsk in the Urals has been film studio and there had an tised version will be staged early put into operation with a reimple amusing but almost alarming this year at the Moscow Art ceremony, and the first slump of experience.

Theatre

It was a sound film played backwards.. The music, strange GIANT WHALE IN THE ly enough, was not at all dis BALTIC.NE quieting. If similar strains had A giant whale, measuring near- come to me from my loud speak-ly 100 feet, has been killed in er I should have murmured "Ah, Arte Sound by a party of Dan Schonberg or Bela Barter" and ish fishermen, after a long and should have taken no notice ex-exciting chase.

Whales very cept to tune in to another sta- seldom stray into the Baltic, tidi.

where they are inevitably lost. But the dialogue was positive-This is the largest whale ever ly uncanny. Quite obviously harpooned in it.. there were two persons convers-

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ing in atticulate speech, but the NEWFOUNDLAND FACING effect suggested that it was, no

speech known on this planet.

BANKRUPTCY. Newfoundland appears to be

Thus, I imagine, if there are in- on the brink of bankruptcy. It

telligent creatures on Mars who

do not wear human shape, must,

they talk to one another.

coke, from the new ovens was placed in a special receptable and sent, to the Moscow Industriał bined with a tar distillery and a Museum, The cokery is com- chemical factory which will sup- ply all Russia with dyes.

M. MAÏNOT.

M. Maginot, whose death was in- The French Minister of War, nounced yesterday, was a victim to typhoid fever. He suddenly fell ill just before Christmas. The attack, at first, was said to be slight, and physicians stated there was no cause for alarm.

I am told that speech thus ren- DEATH OF FAMOUS FAMOUS DETECTIVE.

dered backwards is very illumin-

ating to students of the struc- ture of language..

News in Brief.

Quarantine restrictions have Shanghai on account of smallpox been imposed against arrivals from

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INVENTOR.

SER WILLIAM MILLS.

London, Yesterday, The death occurred 'to-day of

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"The Man With Hundred Voices."

SCOTLAND YARD OFFICER.

London, December 29. Known to criminals throughout voices," Inspector Keen of Scotland London as the "man with a hundred, Yard retired to day after a Junts

of service.

The inspector was a master of

disguise and his ability to change his voice was phenpatenal; Un ly by the British and Allied forces throughout the War, Hd several occasions he was so suc- was a recognised inventor of wide cessful in assuming roles that he and varied experience; and had was invited by criminals to take travelled extensively. He estab part in their schemes... lished the first aluminium foun- dry in the United Kingdom.

Death of Ola Kowloon Resident.

CHARLES WHITLEY.

His most famous capture was the arrest of a man concerned in the mysterious theft of a £10,000 pearl collar bought for the Queen of Siam in London. The pearls vanished during their transit from London to Slam and the police of Europe and the Orient searched in Vain until Keen obtained-informa- tlon from Singapore which led to the arrest of the man concerned.

Of all the leading professionals, Laman is probably the best model for a keen, ambitious amateur to follow. He plays billiardske the ordinary "hundred-upper-bat rather batter! You can always ace what he is trying for "Polaris

The advent of the talkie has

Mr. C. K. Ogden, the Cam- | vastly increased the potentiall-bridge expert, has had a gramo ties of the cinema for education- phone specially made for him al purposes. The serious objec from an ordinary record. Sound which will get the same result tion of a purely visual method of photographed on a film would, I Films for Schools?

Instruction disappears with the should think. be simpler and Sir William Mills, the inventor When next the Government Introduction of accompanying easier to handle for this purpose of the hand grenade. Reuter.

Mr. Ogden, .... I am bound to launches on another orgy of auditory sensation. The caption add, is more impish in tempera

Sir William Mills was created spending public money on edu- passes into the background and ment than most scientists and a Knight in 1922. He was born cation," it is to be hoped that the more intimate connection of his joy in this device may be on April 24, 1856. It was in partly derived from the possibi- 1915 that he invented and intro, |consideration will

be given to the human voice with the visual lity it affords of making his duced, the Mills Hand Grenade the subject of introducing films material will be an advantage friends flesh creep. Evening used exclusively and successful in schools. Children are to-day which cannot be over-estimated. Standard. perhaps greater frequenters of The cinema is destined to occupy cinemas than grown-ups; but an ever-increasing position of what they "see and hear" is not importance in the education of always suited to persons of ten-the child, and the present type der years. At the same of text book will eventually give time no great 'effort is place to one more closely asso- made to cater far school clated with cinematographic re children unless on occasion when quirements. Provided always The lowest open air temperature a film comes along as a matter that great care be taken to secure yesterday was 62. The humidity of routine. Often, too, a real that pure diction be employed in dropped from 72 to 10 a.m. to 57 at

4 p.m. good picture for children -en-the making of educational films, joyable as well as instructional- it should have a beneficent effect: A Radio message 'received by the is shown in support of a featur Insing the standard of good local branch of the NYK from the

His many friends in the Colony, ed film that is far from it for speech among our children. The here on Saturday at daylight en will fearn with fertet of the death juveniles to see. This, of course, prospects of a remarkable ad-rautz from Japan and Shanghai to in the Matilda Hospital this morn- cannot be placed to the debit of vance in educational procedure Europe, states that she picked up ng of Mr. Charles Whitley, of 26, local cinemas or film agencies, Bre very bright, and it is to be from the sea-eight shipwrecked Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon.

Chinese fishermen b Wenchew Mr. Whitley had not been in the who, often unhappily, have gen- hoped that full advantage will he

yesterday afternoon,

best of health during most of his crally to take what is sent to taken of them.

residence here. It was for- them.

The value of films for educa

It was announced during proceed- merly of the Indian

Corps, With the Inauguration of a

tional purposes is proved by the ings at the Central Police Court and retired on pension several yesterday afternoon in which a years ago, taking up residence in scheme for films in schools, the fact that, at Home, in many re- Chinese was charged before Mr. Kowloon. In 1925 he was a mem

To-day's Thought. Education Department

search laboratories, especially in E. H. Williams with throwing cor-ber of the Vestry of St. Andrew's Will naturally have a wide choice;

ice:the provinces of botany and bio- rosive acid over a stall faki in Shing Church, Kowloon, and for part of me seem to think that the and, so long as a educational ex- logy, the cinema has become of the Government Civil Hospital, Treasurer,

Wong, Street that Dr. G. H. Thomas the time held the office of Hon. Editor is a superfluous piece of

furniture in the creation of pert, and not la Cadet who has normal part of the equipment. was among the diphtheria victima

Mr. Whitley was in his 60th paper. There is no measuring-rod never been connected with that Can the University or the Gov and was able to give evidence. year and was a native of Chester, to be applied to his work because Department before, is at the head ernment schools in this Colony

England. At the age of 19 years, the major part of it never appears we may expect that choice to be be content to lag behind the

he foined the Lancashire Faillers before the public eye-Baptist and went out to India two years

Times. a wise one. A writer in tho

later. In March, 1923, he came to The forthcoming marriage is an Hong Kong in charge of the n- Empire Review points out. quite

nounced of Charles Simon Rosselet, dian Mule Corps, and was in the pertinently that an exact know

4. Dragon Terrace, Capseway Bay East for, the whole time, except for ledge of many operations, out-

and Kathleen Constance Heard, 1 two visits to his native country in side the range of ordinary expert-

Broadwood Bond, Happy Valley, 1927 and 1929. He retired with

the rank of Conductor. ence, can be made pos ible by means of the cinema. The tails of Arctic, explorations, climbing of high mount

the fascinating adventures game sportsmen, stores of inform gard to Wild natural sufroir come the

young

From Other Pens

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of its compiler failed to

European liner Fushimi Maru, due|

Personal Pars.

A publici lecture on Christian He leaves a widow, two daugh fence is to be given in Hong Kong ters and two sons. Much sym

by Albert F. Gilmore, Litt. Dhpathy will be extended to them in C.S.B, members of the Board of their bereavement...

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Ching Mall" of

January 8, 1922]://

To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%8

It is on the cards that before long,

we shall hear of a Hong Kong Cov

p of the Mother Church The funeral takes place toernment Loan!

Chinch of Christ morrow passing the Monument at Boston, Mass., about the 2.30 pm, Full military honours Brch Gilmore's tour will be accorded.

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Death of Police Serge it's Wife.

NITA PEPPERELL

If is a frequent complaint of the Hong Kong public, and echoed in the local newspapers that our Goy ernment is averse to loans, and that It is obstinately set on paying for everything out of the This is not

of the

cart

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