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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933.

OVERLOADED LORRY D.B.S. “JUNIOR

AT WEST POINT

LOCAL" TEST

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Jury's Recommendation Examination On Lines

To Police.

INQUEST ON VICTIM OF

LORRY CRASH

Of Original.

50 PER CENT. SUCCESSFUL

Owing to the discontinuation of the Hong Kong University Junior

LITERARY NOTES

THE CHINA (MAIL

GALSWORTHY'S LAST NOVEL

Farewell To The Forsytes.

MELANCHOLY PAGES

death Local Examination, a special exam-Over the River. By John Gals

A vordiet of accidental with the recomandation that police should consider the pos-

worthy. (Heinemann. 78. fd.).

Diocesan at the the nation was held

Boys' School this year to take ita aimed was rler. The standard sibility of providing facilities in similar, and it was conducted along

Over this last novel of John the West Point district of the City the lines of a public examination.

Chinese, Galsworthy's there hangs the where lorry drivers roaid check English, mathematics and

for Chinese boys) or Cantonese, breath of autumn-a mood that has in it less of the serenity of Indian summer than an air of melancholy and resignation. The puppets parade for the last time: Dinny Cherrell against the

the loade of their vehicles, was re-and two other subjects had to hẹ turned by the jury at the conel-passed to obtain a certificate.

sion of the Coroner's inquest hela- At the Central Magistrney 1 morning into the death of a seal- folding workman, Cheung Sum-tal.

The deceased, with another workman, Ho Kam, were travelling- on the top of a lorry which crash ed through a wall on Island, Rond,

Out of 64 candidates, the follow. ing 33 boys were successful.

Passed with Honours:~~ Ang Eng Cheng, Mathematics, Chinese, Chemistry).

J. Fong. (English, Mathematics, stately background of Condaford Physics).

Grange; her sister Clare, return-j

Kwok

Heads Racket Query WELL-KNOWN FRENCH

Senator Royal B. Copeland, NË New York, is chairman of the Ben- ate committes studying rackets and racketeers with the view to recops- mending Congressional action. Po- Ecs and Department of Justics alá. cinia in various cities are co-operat- ing with the Copeland committee.

Ho KH Wing. Mathematics, ing from a broken marriage in Mechanics, Physics).

Passed:-Chan

Cheung, Ceylon to the complications and intrusions of the Divorce Court. Chen Kien Yi. Mechanics), near Deep Water Bay, and plung-Chen King Sang. Cheng Kwang Some of the old threads are end-

"Hain, Cheng Quing Hon, D. Chined; a few of the old voices re-! October 27. Both men were kill Park. E. Chin Park (English. Can-echo; Wilfrid Desert is drowned SIR HENRY LYTTON'S tonese), C. Dalziel, Fok Man Chung, in Siam; the dead Soames is re- Mr. E W. Hamilton acted as Ho Tuen, Huang Yen Cheng. A. J. called:

ed 80 feet down a precipice,

ed.

Coroner and the jury consisted of Hule (English. Geography). Ko Menars, J. P. Kolinson foreman). Fook Wing, Kwan Hok Ming. Kwan Andrew Tse and M. S. Morris.

Truck Overloaded

that the

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BOOK.

Romantic Career Of Jack Point.

AUTHOR IN U.S.

Militant Pacifist On Lecture Tour.

Henri Barbusse, distinguished French author and militant Įpaciâst, continues his "fight" for peace and internationalism while the world moves toward nation. alistic dictatorships.

Fifty-nine years old, soldier, his "Under Fire" electri

decade fied the reading world a ago.

an

er.

He is in America on a lecture tour. Ellis Island detained him for a short time as a Communist. He admitted to the charge, and said he "was proud of it."

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"A Wandering Minstrel," the title of Sir Gilbertian

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"Nice? It's not the word. Straight, yes; careful. yes— too careful for these times." Lun, Lai Chung (English, Geography, Leung Chee In Clare's divorce suit "very Sergeant Mclnnis. Police Me Cheong. Leung Kad Wal (Ma- young"Roger Forsyte is the soli- chanie, said

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Loule Hear in the company, mar- The most irritating book in the duty to see that the load was well

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In English."

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to take a bond that was too heavy or PULLOVERS STOLEN ble words. Dinny's face has aried man, by the headmaster.

too long.

He considered that the mishäp was due to an error of judgment on the part of the driver. WI ness added that the police were unable to and the pedestrian who was spoken of by one of the wit. nesses at the last hearing us har Ing run across in front of the lorry, causing the driver to serve,

Sub-Inspector Nicol con: arrui with the last witness and ad led that there was a weigh-bridge at No. 2 Police Station, where the

cases over.

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Ip Kum, and Chan Tak, unem The divergence of thought be played, were brought before Mr. Balfour at the Central Magistracy tween two generations is des this morning, charged with steal-cribed with the painstaking con- ing 18 pullovers from the Cheung sciousness Trading Company, 154 Queen's who has kept ahead of his times. Road Central The first defendant and the scene in the Divorce was sentenced to one month's hard Court during the examination of James Weldon Johnson, author

"England Crisis," labour and the second, who had the witness in masterly. Here of the currently published auto- Slegfried's

which was published two VOLTS drivers could check their loads previous conviction against him, to lives the old Galsworthy of "Loy-biography Along This Way," has The pollee, however, only Look

alties" and "The Skin Game."

called 1wn months' hard labour.

America's leading ago, le la Jonathan Capes list of

books to come shortly. the action in extreme

whole Negro And yet! About A third defendant in the case,

citizen. Lawyer, teacher. Yuen Tuen, a licensed stall holder book there is an

atmosphere poet, diplomat, and for many years The Coroner, summing up. said in Peel Street, was fined $100. in which Galsworthy himself attri- secretary of the National Associa the oriver's jdefkull two months' hard labour, butes here to one of the Inns of tion for the that the mistake on

Advancement of the Court.

been a part W n error of judgment for being in possession of

Coloured People, he has were rertajatolen goods. He felt that there

that the leader in the uphill fight for the irregularities in the system of Detective Sergeant Fowlie stated; Temple harbours the human rights of Afro-Americans, and dis- dealing with lorry loading which (that the pullovers, which

who tinguished himself in innumerahle should be tightened up. 11 was sold by the second defendant to shall gainsay that the human other capacities.

epirit is taken off at its en- absolutely impossible for the police the stall holder for $4, were found to examine every load in such at the latter's house at 73 Holly- large city, where building activity wood Rond,

loading.

is so great. It was also necessary

that long loads of this kind should

be carried for building operations.

Coolle Commended.

their in returning The Jury

that verdict said

the error

af judgment on the part of the driver did not amount to criminal negli gence, and that the direct cause of the Recident was the overloading of the lorry,

They suggested that the police should continue to take measures to check the practice of over-load- ing vehicles of every description | and to consider the possibility of providing facilities in the West Point district of the city for check- ing loade. The Jury added that they wished to commend the assis- tance rendered by the cable house coolle at Deep Water Bay, Ng You, for bringing about the rescue the injured and sending them hospital.

of

to

The Coroner accepted thin verdict and commanded the coolic

on his fine work

PEACOCK STARTS

A FIRE

Tail Of Trouble,

Shabani, B. Rhodesia.

A peacock was responsible for an outbreak of fire on Captain C. Fenton-Wells' farm, resulting in the demolition of pig-styes and some bags of grain.

It appears that a peacock, in sweeping its tail over, the hot embers of a dying fire, caught alight, and in its frenzied flight ignited bags of grain lying near by, also the pig-styen, the bird Bacpped with only an injured tall-Reuber..

were

Who shall deny

mind in excelsis;

He wrote the English version of

trances and left outside like the bretto for the grand opera

shoes of those who enter

Hitler Permits Student Duei

Humteras DEKLER 6ACTION

Adolf Hitler, With the "lifting" of the bus on, dialing; by CALITA Heidelberg, University, histerie mat of German, culturn, be omon: MOTE the battle ground for the traditional student duel, bloody, but not desgar "'one combate that provide the contactants

mark the wearer (n. trod son of the Heidelberg soda, freskisan students.

Macari af homore thak nd." According to the new.

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the Metropolitan Opera House, Mr. Johnston is sixty-two.

PEARL BUCK'S NEW PUBLICATION

Earth"

Renders of "The Good meet again the central figure in Mra. Buck's book, "The First Wife and Other Stories," which has come from Metheun. This is a col- Jection of Pearl Buck's short pieces though the longest story is really a short novel.

· FIRST JEWISH OMNIBUS

Vicki. Baum and Louis Golding are two of the contributors of "Yaroel: The First Jewish Omni- bus," of which Joseph Leftwich is Ithe editor.

mosque? Not even to its Grand Nights is the human spirit admitted, for the legal ...mind must not "slop over." The later Galsworthy, like the later. Wordsworth, had entered the mosque of respectability--a place most fatal to the Muse, There the faithful practise the sacred rites of Good Form, and therein is never heard "the shout of them that triumph," since the Initiated never raise their voices. Thou shalt not give thyself Away" is the first commandment. Yet, even here, like Old Jolyon who, at the end, saw life advan- cing to him through the trees, we are reminded now and then [laughing couples waltzing to the Blue Danube at Villa Rubein; of those earlier books; the the lovers under the apple tree; Mrs. Pendyee walling back to the

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