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• PAUL ROBESON IN "EMPEROR JONES"

China Mail.

EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934.

ROUGHNESS

IN AMERICAN

ATHLETICS

Widespread In Army

And Navy.

MOST WRESTLING CASUALTIES

IN CHINA

Writer Of "The King's English

Famous Lexicographer collaboration with his brother!!

Dies In Somerset

produced a remarkably good! translation of Lucian, which was published in 1905.

MR. HENRY WATSON FOWLER brothers caused almost a sensa- In the following years, the

London.

tion in the literary and school! worlds with "The King's Eng Mr. Henry Watson Fowler, the lish." great authority on the English The book revealed the genius Washington, D.C. · Unnecessary roughness in athle. language, and part:author of of Mr. Fowler as a lexicographer, tic games by officers and enlisted "The King's English," has died and he was engaged by the Ox of pneumonia at Hinton St. ford University Press to produce men of the Army is widespread George, Somerset, at the age of the "Concise English Dictionary,"

176.

which appeared in 1911.

the "Pocket Oxford

and should be eliminated said Major General Robert W. Patter:

He was the eldest son of the His brother was killed in the son, Surgeon general of the Army Rev. Robert Fowler of Tunbridge War, but Mr. Henry Fowler com in his annual report to the Secre-Wells, and was educated at pleted another of their joint: lary of War.

Rugby and Ballfol College, where works, Out of every 1,000 soldiers 25.4 he took his degree in classics. per cent. become hospital - Савев

After 17 years spent as A

the In 1926, he published because of athletic mishaps.

schoolmaster he retired in 1899 "Dictionary of Modern English Baseball is responsible for most to the Channel Islands, and in Usage" and three years later Injuries. Football, boxing and

brought out a new version of the wrestling come next.

"Concise Dictionary."

Dictionary."

The "doughboys" stationed in

Mr. Fowler was alone in his Hawaii play the roughest and suf-tary duty every day of the year time in the crispness and facility fer the most broken fingers, noses because of illness or accident. of his definitions. Many of and legs. Troops in China provide For the first time deaths among them had unexpected turns of the most hospital cases from officers and enlisted men from ac-humour. For example, "a wing" wrestling, otherwise known as the cidents 284 - exceeded deaths he described as "one of the "grunt-game."

from disease--279.

limbs or organs by which the Although the general health of During the last 100 years Major flight of a bird, bat, insect, angel. the Army showed improvement General Patterson reported, the etc., is effected;" and a "wet, over the previous year. 4,000 men¡ Army's sick rate has been reduced blanket" he calls "a person who continued to be absent from mili-76 per cent, and the death rate 88 extinguishes conversation."

(Continued at foot of nest Column.)|për cent.--Reuter.

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