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The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Wednesday. Jan. 20, 1932,

Birth Control.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932

fort in public-houses may not, in A mechanic named Li Ho, residing CORRESPONDENCE

itself, carry us much beyond the at No. 5, Tank Line, was alcoping beginnings of a new controversy. last night in a cubicle on the Arst For what is "superior accommoda-floor of No. 17, Graham Street, tion" and what is "comfort" In when someone stole from his pocket terms of the pubile-houses? As a watch, chain, and appendage far as can be judged, brewers and valued at $101. public-house architects hold one)

HONG KONG, LAWYER'S NAME CLEARED.

To the Editor of "Chlaa Mail."] Sir-We are instructed by Mr.

view while novelists, poets, and An interesting talk on "Maga- even superior persons hold its zines" was given by Mrs. C. E. L.. exact opposite. The modern brew-Grist at the Helena May Institute er's idea of superior comfort and yesterday to a large gathering of Thomas Rowan, to write you with accommodation involves a "lounge" members of the English Associa-reference to the following matter. rather resembling the living-room tion, Including H.E. the Governor, Police Court a statement was made in Singapore who was in the chair. an

In a recent caso

that our client was a solicitor who

of the middle-class house in American film, a spacious apart ment with settees, palms is the cor- The Editor of Chop Sticks writes had been struck off the Rolls in ners, glass-covered tables, "refan- to. Inform us that by inadvertence Hong Kong. That statement was ed" prints on the walls, and a faint two pictures appearing in the repeated in several of the Hong smell of varnish over all.

January issue, entitled 'A Holy Man Kong newspapers greatly to the de-

Take up any novel, on the other of China' and 'Washing Day, re-triment of our client, The state- hand, and you will find that the spectively, have been attributed to ment was totally untrue and we public-kouse accommodation which von Kobza. The correct inscriptook immediate steps to have it la praised and described with tion should be "The Little Shop, by denied. Accordingly a statement unction is something closely recourtesy of Mr. R. Poinset.” The was made in Court on January 12 sembling what Charles Dickens Editor wishes to express his regret by Counsel apologising for the looked for-smuguess rather than for the error.

former statement. We send you ☎ space, a little of what schoolboys

page of the Straits Times publish- call, "frowat," wooden settees and An undoubted treat: "Annabelle's cd-in Singapore on Wednesday, wooden armchairs, a bright fire in Affairs," showing for the last time January 18, and we shall be much stead of a radiator, and an atmos-Jeanette MacDonald, prettier even paper a statement to clear our to-day in the King's Theatre, obliged if you will insert in your phere of welcome rather than that than in "The Love Parade," and client's character. It would prob- of the public rooms of a luxury Roland Young, his dry humour ably be best to report Mr. K. K. hotel-those monuments cf dis- drollier, their ever, do aplendid O'Connor's statement in full if you comfort and aloofness. The brew-

Yours etc.,

ers are destroying overywhere the team work with a cast that are by are able to do so. kind of public-house novelists and! no means figure heads. Little poets describe as perfect.

wonder the film has been attract- Is it proposed to accelerate or to retard

ing big crowdą. - that process-Manchester Guar dlan.

*

Books in 1931.

BRADDELL BROS. Singapore, January 18, 1932.

Five Chinese, three of whom are constables, were again brought be- fore Mr. J. A. Fraser at the Kow-

Straits Times, Jan. 13. The classified analysis of books

loon Magistracy, charged with mak- "At a previous hearing of this published during 1931 contains hawkers.. Mr.

ing unlawful exactions from case I asked a question in cross- much interesting matter for specu-prosecuted, while Mr. Horace Lo Rowan, a lawyer, had had his name Somerset Fitzroy examination suggesting that a Mr. lation.

appeared-for the first defendant and struck off the rolls in Hong Kong. The total is down by 705 as com- Mr. F. X. D'Almada, Senr., for the That question was asked by me on pared with 1930, but fiction is up three constables. Evidence was instructions and information which by 79, and new editions by 335. given by hawkers as to the method appeared authentic and which I member of the research division drama," which shows a decrease of the case being adjourned later until when the allegation was denied, I The largest drop is in "poetry and of the alleged conspiracy system, fully believed at the time. Later, of the Milbank Memorial Fund, 207. But this, as Arnold Bennett to-day. who has made available for the always used to maintain, is a sen- first time an analysis of data

seless and unilluminating classi- fcation. I should hazard the about population based on the guess that most of the decrease is Federal census of 1910. The in volumes of verse, which to-day

of

families," he says, "particularly

13

*

published

Personal Pars.

At the fortnightly meeting of

the Sanitary Board, yesterday, the

tin

every

stated that, if it was untrue, as I was then informed, I should like to withdraw it at once and I express- ed regret for any pain or harm which might have been caused to Mr. Rowan.

"Since that date I have received conclusive evidence emanating

It may be expected that more directors of the Fund believe find publishers shyer than they

were ten years ago, than a ripple will affect the that scientific knowledge

What I should really like to see flow of controversy over birth population trends will be an in-would be statistics showing how appointment of Mr. Wong Kwang- from the secretary to the Law So- control by the query raised by valuable aid in formulating fu- many

books

as a member for a further ciety in Hong Kong that Mr. the Osservatore Romano, the ture programmies in the fields of year have, afforded their pub-period of three years was confirm Rowan was not struck off the rolls

lléhera 藕 reasonable official organ

of the Vatican, social welfare and public health.

I think that this ed and Mr. Wong was congratulat-in Hong Kong. return on' the outlay,

fact should be given the widest ed by his colleagues. find Small families have both ad- authors

their namely:-

reward

publicity that I can give it. I am, comparable "Why is there all this talk vantages and disadvantages, Dr. with that to be obtained by, say, The funeral, with full military therefore, making this statement. of birth control when statis-Notestein, points out. "A decline shovelling snow or selling matches honours, of C.Q.M.S. Edward "The suggestion that Mr. Rowan tles show an alarming down the proportion of very large Evening Standard.

in the street. Londoner in the Argyll and Sutherland Highland-Kong is fully and unconditionally Mullens of the 2nd Battalion was struck off the rolls in Hong

ward grade of natality

ers, whose death from pneumonia withdrawn and I should like to ex- in "lower" urban social classes, Proof. throughout the white popula-

occurred at the Military Hospital press my aincere regrets that the gives better opportunities for tions of the world while the

My remarks about London haunt-on Monday, took place at the suggestion was made."

Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy ed houses the

This was G the children that are born. coloured

further statement races, on the con-

other day have valley, last evening. the service made by Mr. K. K. O'Connor, one It means less crushing poverty,me what he claims is the shortest prompted a correspondent to send trary, are increasing?"

at the graveside being conducted of the counsel for the defence in better food, homes, health, and ghost story on record. The writer at the Vatican pro-

Here it is: by the Rev. Fr. J. J. O'Brien, C.F. the title deed case, which again tests strongly against the sug-whose entire consuming power is "Ghosts are all humbug," said one. education, and fewer families Two men in a railway compart-

came up for hearing before Mr. G. ment got into conversation.j

C. Dodd, the Singapore Criminal gestions recently made that:

District Judge, yesterday afternoon there are exceptions to the pro-

devoted to the bare necessities of "05,"you think so. do you?"

when the case for the prosecution hibition of birth control by the

life. At the other extreme, an plled the other, and promptly

was closed. Catholic Church.

increase in the proportion of vanished.-Peterborough

"On behalf of Mr. Rowan I ac- Еп the The article

Daily Telegraph.

cepted that apology, and thank Mr. characterises the attitude of the very small families means that

O'Connor for having made it," said Protestants in regard to birth an increasingly large number of

Mr. Roland Braddell who repre- News in Brief.

sented Mr. Rowan, the Hong Kong 28 confused, remark-children are reared without the companionship of brothers and

At the Church of Christ in lawyer. Mr. Braddell added that China, yesterday, sisters, and the necessity of shar- yesterday was 60 degrees.

The lowest open air temperature Tsang, daughter of the Rev. and nor thought he had correct in- Lillian L. he quite recognised that Mr. O'Con "The Lambeth Conference ing the attention and affection of humidity was 76 at 10 a.m. and 77ried to Kenneth K. Lee, son of known Mr. Rowan for eleven years The Mra. Tsang Wai-sun, was mar- formation. He had personally issued an ambiguous condone ment of the practice and aer women find their whole time

their parents with others. Few-at 4 p.m.

Mrs. Lee Lim-shee and younger quite intimately. lady. was recently decorated profitably taken up by the duties who was injured by falling from Katherine

brother of Mr. Cheung S. Lee. A cargo coolle, Kwok Kam, (48),|

"I am obliged to my learned The for her work connected with

bride's sister, Miss friend for what he has said. I did of the home, and an increasingly a crane whilst working cargo on the bridesmaid, while Mr. Lai Chok-ly, it was only a name to me." Mr. Tsang, was the not know Mr. Rowan personal- the opening of birth control large number feel free to seeks Tiinabok, was removed to the tin, Professor at Lingnam Uni- O'Connor said. clinics which are actual agen-outside employment. The result Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from versity was best man.

control

ing:

cies of infanticide."

An

-50

infurfes to the body,

re-

WEDDING.

Lee - Tsang.

PACIFIC PROBLEMS.

The statement, now refuted,. was not repeated in the Chino Mail, and would not have been referred to now but for Messrs. Braddell Brothers' letter of Jan uary 14,-Ed. China Mall,

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China" Mat!”

January 20, 1922)

Childless and one-child fami

is doubtless greater economic in-

The Rev. Chang officiated. dependence for

Music was supplied by the Ling- for women, bringing A Chinese woman named Li Kin, nam Orchestra. lies may eventually be the rule

with it quite possibly a weaken- (60) was admitted to the Govern- in American cities if presenting of the home ties on both thement Civil Hospital yesterday sut Tung Yat Restaurant, the happy Following a reception held at population trends continue.

fering from injuries caused by fall-couple left for Macao, where the husband and wife, and an in- ing on a piece of iron at a house honeymoon will be spent. article on the decrease in the size of families, which appears, to the crease in the proportion of homes under construction in Peak Road.

broken by separation and Quarterly Bulletin of the Mil- divorce.”

A Chinese married woman, Ching bank Memorial Fund, says that The question of birth control Gough Street, is alleged to have at Taat, (24), residing at No. 84, as long ago as 1890 and even is one that should be studied on tempted to commit suicide this earlier, before the present era of its own merits. There seemer, a morning by, opium poisoning. She At the tiffin of the Rotary To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%- organised birth control propa- tendency in certain quarters to was removed to the Government Club, yesterday, the Hon. Mr. gunda, families of this size were day, in Europe as well as Ameri

Civil Hospital.

W. E. L. Shenton spoke for the The strike of Chinese seamen en becoming more and more com ca, to conf

Institute of Pacific Relations, tarod upon its second week to-day to confuse birth control. with The body of an unknown Chinese He told of the work the Institute with both parties standing aloof mon in urban communities, in the unsavoury subject of child was removed to the Kowloon Mor was doing and how it was being from negotiations. and adhering the lower as well as the middle abortion-hence, no doubt, atuary last night, having bean done, and also made reference to firmly to the rip qurrender ate and upper classes, and that even great deal of the heat that has from the Yaumati ferry 6.8. Man hal, which he attended as one of Neither the Union nor the employers picked up after a man had jumped the recent conference in Shang- titude they adopted yesterday. in rural districts two and three been generated, in certain c Chu. The body was taken on board the British group. He dwelt on had any fresh development to res child families were largely sup- clesiastical circles.

launch by Sergeant the growth of the Institute port this morning, planting the patriarchal house questions are miles holds of the sturdy pioneers of must be kept yesterday.

These and other facts relating

to the falling birth rate, and the bearing

period

this subject on the

Social and economi all acute in

ther

who tried to revive the which, he considered filled a The Union Issued a notification to artifical respiration, but most useful purpose in studying ith members last night spring them. the problems of the Pacific and to combine together and with one

|making efforts

mind, and stick to the idea of hold- ing out until the 80.40 per increase they asked for, brig

[nounced.