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The China Mail.

Hong Kong Friday, April 15, 1932.

The Rite of Widow

Sacrifice.

A Reuter's cable from Patna, the

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1932.

Correspondence.

SUICIDE AN OFFENCE?

with thousands of loyal London work to design a machine that supporters behind it? Might it could be, handled by a single have been due to the controversy operator.. It had to produce 1,068 that arose on the eve of the semi- characters. Obviously the only final game

against Newcastle solution of this problem was the United? It might have been, for code. Now-a-days, however, in. he was only played at the last many Chinese newspaper offices minute, though he was considered and in most of the big business by many to be the best centre- houses in China the typewriter forward Scotland Rad produced. is in use. The keyboard

Poor attendances this soason ployed is reputed to be the inven- in the light of an experience I had have affected .numerous clubs, tion of an English diplomat. while crossing the harbour in a notable among which are Man- And now the typewriter indus- ferry one night, in your leader in chester United. Clapton Orient, try employs thousands of workers yesterday's China Mail which asked Thames, and Leith Athletic. Those and represents a capital invest the question, Should Suicide be an who say that Football is losing in ment of twenty-five million: Offence? popularity are absurd. We hear pounds sterling,

News in Brief.

em-

[To the Editor of "China Mail.")

Str-I was more than interested,

It was a pitch black night and that 80,000 paid for admission at

bitterly cold. We were half-way Wembley last Saturday to witness

across, when a splash was heard and the match between England and]

the ery of "Man Overboard!.. im- Scotland. No, football is popular,

Four cases of small-pox, one of

mediately raised. It was a deli- but. commercialised football popu- diphtheria, and

berate attempt at suicide, as two of meningitis weather conditions did not larises only that team with suffi- were reported yesterday. ·

war- elent capital to take the pickings

rant a man standing too near the from the lesser wealthy clubs.

side with the cold spray coming up Professional footballers once they yesterday was 65. Humidity at 10; sides, I ascertained that there was Lowest open afr temperature i on to the second elaas deck and be- attain greatness become a ball a.m. was 81 and at 4 p.m. '90. themselves and are tossed from the hand of one football magnate to To-day was observed as Pound where the man might have gained another until they eventually come Day at the Alice Memorial and some small degree of warmth. His to reat after numerous discussions Affiliated Hospitals, Bonham Road. attempt to rid the world of his in high finance.

The Hospitals were open for in- company was the means of a delay The obvious question to be asked spection, and, for the reception of of some minutes, whilst the ferry i7, whether a club would not Be gifts from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

was stopped and then reversed. He better advised to keep a star

was saved that was almost inevit-

plenty of room near the funnel

able-but at the risk of pneumonia

to his rescuer. Was it worth it?

I am a firm believer in the prin

centre-forward or centre-half as an Chang Sal, (19), employed as attraction for the focal supporters, canteen boy at Wellington Barracks Instead of parting with him for say was sent to the Government Civil £20,000 and thus leave a glaring Hospital last night, suffering from ciple of the survival of the fittest. gap in the team. Of course, a the effects of opium poisoning, If the man is sufficiently discourag- director of the Club

concerned stated to have been self-administered with himself and is deficient in would say that the possibility of ed in an alleged attempt to commit, his mental attitude towards the injury to the star player is too suicide.

world, let him do away with him- great, and that $20,000 is a sure

self. It is no criminal offence in my opinion.

Yours, etc.,

gamble. No, football can never be The U.S.S. Ganopus and four sub- free from strife, when bank rolls marina arrived in harbour soon are so freely displayed. It is a after 8 o'clock this morning for a pity, but it is, nevertheless, too short stay. They exchanged the true.

usual salutes with the Port and the Commodore, and are now at the Naval anchorage, opposite the R.N. Dockyard.

The Typewriter.

Hong Kong, April 15.

EMPIRE DAY,

SUIGIDER

To the Editor of "China Mail," Sir,In connection with the special efforts which A dance organised by H.M.S.made for the observance of Empire are being

cording to the district in which it was observed. In South India, for example, the widow used to jump

No office to-day is complete or was forced into the fire pit in without a typewriter. Few per-Medway and submarines, which i Day this year, May 24, the Horg Western India she was placed in a sons, journalists for example, Crawford's restaurant last night, grass. hat, supporting the corpse's feel comfortable and at ease un-

was to have taken place at Lane, Kong Empire Day Committee. ap-

Akbar the

;

Americe.

For

TALKIE TALKS.

Owing to extreme pressure on space to-day, our usual weekly feature will appear

advertising space in the news

purpose of bringing to the notice of the public the products of the Mother Country and the Overseas Dominions; and, where possible, to give special window displays of such products.

The Committee would also like business houses and private re- sidences to fly the Union Jack on Empire Day.

(Sd.) VIOLET PEEL.

head with her right hand while less a typewriter is handy for was cancelled, on account of the Peal to local firms to utilise their her left held the torch with them to use. The typewriter is outbreak of meningitis. It la hop papers, for a period of about a which she herself set fire to a machine that led to office re-ed to hold the function on Mon-week prior to Empire Day, for the to the pyre; in the Ganges valley she used to lay down upon emancipation of woman.

volution and, in a sense, to the day next from 8.30 p.m. to 1 a.m. chief city of the Province of Bihar the already lighted pile; while in it was as manipulators of these and Orissa in India, tells us, this Nepal she was placed beside the machines that girls were first morning, that a certain number of corpse, and when the pile was employed in offices. men, of a small village in this pro-in place by long poles pressed expensive novelty has become a The type- lighted the two bodies were held writer from being a luxury, and vince, have been arrested and down by relatives. charged by the police for inducing Great was the first Indian potent- and business.

necessary adjunct to commerce

to-morrow. And only sixty ate who attempted to stop suttee. a widow to commit suttee-that is

He forbade compulsion, but per-writer arrived in England from years ago the first practical type: self immolation ол the funeral mitted voluntary suttee. pyre of her husband,

At the weekly meeting of the Widow sacrifice

To America belongs Theosophical

I feel sure that thie appeal will is not a rite the credit of this revolution.

Society, last eve-meet with a worthy response. More than a century ago to-day, peculiar to India, and evidence

ning, Mr. B. Paul delivered

Yours, etc., Lord William Bentinck in spite of theory, that the rite existed among peared in an English newspaper mankind from Atlantis to the Gobi has been collected to support the history of the typewriter ap the migrations of past races of An interesting account of the an interesting lecture tracing fierce opposition, carried in Coun-all primitive Aryan nations. It eil a regulation which declared appears that the medieval priest Sixty Years of Typing."

very recently. It was headed Sea and thence to England. The that all who abetted suttee were when they introduced the rite into practical typewriter to arrive in

hood of India made no innovation writer observed that the first of maps of the world in past ages. The lecture was illustrated by means guilty of "culpable homicide."

India, but simply revived an Aryan England from America was large, The arrested men, no doubt, in due custom of a barbaric period long clumsy, and involved the opera-sion of an automatic, revolver and On charges of being in posses- course, will be brought before the antedating them. Patna High Court to answer this fice are, of course, those rites regarded as a marvel of its kind, Houx De Fastree, a motor engineer Allied to the rite of widow-sacri- hands and feet. Even so it was valid passport, George Arthur De tor in the active use of both entering the Colony without a charge, and may be sentenced to which the Ancients observed in but like all new things was look of France pleaded guilty, when he penal servitude, for such a sen- Egypt and elsewhere when, on the ed upon with suspicion.

At the Malacca Assizes on April tence has, on at least one occasion, death of the head of a house or was so much to be said against wyang-Jones in the Central Police with having on January 18 of this There appeared on remand before Mr. 14, a Chinese, Lye Yeow, was charged been passed upon those who assist and even wives and concubines, to- ing clerks prepared to learn to Worship adjourned hearing for he had been banished from the

empire, a certain number of slaves, it its cost, the difficulty of find-Court yesterday afternoon.

His year, returned to the Colony after gether with horses and cattle for- Suttee' is an English corruption feited their lives, so that the dead Americans, Sholes and Glyden, tion of penalties.

manipulate it.

But the two Counsel's arguments in extenus-Straits Settlements on January 11, of the Sankrit word Sati, meaning new life with servitors and coming, were not to be deterred. man might be accompanied in the who had spent years experiment-

1929. The accused, pleading guilty, begged for leniency, stating that be Even to-day in

had found China in turmoil and had returned to the Colony to earn an Justice

ed at a suttee.

a "good woman" or "true wife," panions, etc.

among certain Hindu castes, In

Personal Pars.

and came to be applied to the rite modified form, this practice is ob- They, and those who had vision and realised the possibilities in- of widow-sacricce, as practised served among certain peoples, and herent in the machine and idea, Dr. Ernest Tso, formerly with

a corpse is interred, with fooda and fruits and vegetables, to which Bet about overcoming, one by the Peking Union Medical College some of the sacred books of the it had shown partiality in this one, the many defects which and Hospital, has arrived in Hindus, the rite is mentioned as world of life."

were pointed out and which, for Shanghai to practise there. a long time, retarded the growth: an "old custom," but certain scholars have shown that the tent Commercialised Football greatest plats in the orlice Childe, of China Underwriters, of popularity. One of the The many friends of Mr. E. R.

machines was that they had no will be glad to learn that he has

of still earlier sacred books Had)

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..

been corrupted, probably wilfully,

The Commercial side of Associa-capital letters. But with the in- now left hospital after his recent and that there is no record of an tion football has been further em-vention of the now familiar key operation. He has taken up resi

This dence at Repulse Bay." phasised by the bombshell that has shift this was overcome. injunction that the rite should be dropped in the Chelées camp. Two invention

the key-shift- observed. The directions of these members of the eleven that reach voluton, to which reference has committee of the Legislative Yuan very directly speeded up the re Mr. Chao. S. Bok, member of the earlier sacred books, it has been ed the semi-final round of the A. already been made, in business of the Nationalist Government, has

Cup have signified their intention said, involved a merely symbolic of joining French club and life. And to-day there are type been appointed Chief Procurator suttee: the widow taking her place negotiations appear to have been writers of many makes and of of the Third Branch of the Kiang on the funeral pile, but being 10-satisfactorily concluded.

many sizes on the market and in au High Court in Shanghef.

BANISHEE WHO RETURNED TO MALAYA.

Because China was in Turmoil.

!

homece Ilving.. Mr. a'Beckett Terrell sentenced him to penal servitude for life,

TELEPHONE GIRL'S DEATH.

Penang.

At the Coroner's enquiry held into the death of Miss Ung Say Ima Penang. telephone girl who WEL

found dead in her room with a bottle of lysol and a glass containing the dregs of the same, evidence was given by Dr. A. S. McKern and the girl's father that this was her called to "this world of life" at This move has not come alto daily use, And, even now, you can

second attempt to commit suicide the last moment by her brother gether in the manner of a surprise, have a "silent" typewriter in The forthcoming marriage is an by taking lysol, the previous 'at= in-law or adopted child.

nounced of Cornelis Jan de Schipper, tempt having been made about three The as the depression, which now sur certain sizes if wanted.

The last profession to capitu- c/o Messrs. Wing Hing Company, years ago, practice was sporadically observed rounds many of the well establish late to the invasion of the me- Tai Ping Building, 16, Queen's in India in very ancient times, but ed clubs, has caused rumours to chanical writing machine was Road Central, and Marion Thomas, returned a verdict of, death by After other evidence the Coroner the earlier Indian law books do the effect that clubs might even the legal profession. The use of of 28, Taku Street, Kopioon." not enjoin it, and there are said resign from membership of the the typewriter among solicitors to be sacred authorities which English F.A. and attempt a come was speeded up by the ruling of simply command the widow to lead back under the French Association. the courts, some years ago, to a life of chastity and asceticism. But action fakon, so quickly and the effect that a carbon copy of The rite was not, at any time in by members of a metropolitan club a typed letter could be put in as the history of India, general comes as a stunning blow to evidence. throughout that sub-continent. In those optimists who, paid little

The designing of a typewriter

its medieval form it was essential heed to the rumours of revolution to register the twenty-six letters ly a Brahminic rite, and it was Gallacher has been one of the of our alphabet and the few sym- where Brahulalam was strongest, most discussed centre-forwards of bols necessary for writing the in Bengal and along the Ganges his time and

valley and in Oudh and Rajputana, ferences hays been that it was most anal much comment

The manner of the sacrifices, ac- be broken off conne

trans- languages of the

stern: world of left untouched " wide field: The hen, has Chinese lan age, for inst ons with so has some

cording to authorities, differed ac well established a club as Chelsea grap

Leands of

inventors

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suicide.

THE CHINA MAIL" OBSERVES

That the German Government has aimed a blow at Hitler

Well, they're simply hitting Hitler.

That, it's an iwind that, bio ws nobody any good. Argen tinians will find valdania ash very useful in the manufacture of cement. E

8. That monkeys, have

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