1936-04-02 — Page 6

Dewar's

WHITE LABEL

-THE

WHISKY OF

White Label WIST SCOTCH WHISE

OF CREST ACT.

Dewar &› DISTILLERS

PER

DISTINCTION :

Solé Agents:--A. S. WATSON & Co. Ltd.

GOING ON

LEAVE

?

Then visit our

Trunk & Bag Department for finest values in

travelling

requisites.

THE CHINA JELILATHERSDAY, CAPRIL 2–19

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

34 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20122. *London Offer:

Garrick Street, London, W.C.2

HONG KONG SINGERS

Proceeds Of Recent Concert

· SAILORS" AND "SOLDIERS”

HOME-

MOTORING IN

HONG KONG

Traffic Offences Analysed

DROP IN NUMBER OF

› SUMMONSES

Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for The President and General Altogether 7,011 traffic offenders publication should be addressed to Committee of the Sailors' - and contributed

of $32,115

Subscription Rates.

One Year

H.K.$36.00

6 Months

3 Months

HK$18.00 HK$ 9.00

Postage Abroad Extra

and

CAUSES OF TOKYO OUTBREAK

JAPANESE TRADITION

IN CONFLICT

CLASH WITH NEW POLITICAL METHODS INEVITABLE

(By Harold Stannard)

the Editor, and be accompanied by Soldiers' Home have made the towards the local Government re- the Writer's Name and Address following statement of proceeds venae by way of the Police Courts not necessarily for insertion, but from the Concert kindly given by during the year ended December as a guarantee of good faith,

the Hong Kong Singers (under 31, 1935.

constables Either trathc the leadership of Mr. J. Anderson

To Western European minds the opînitu carried decisive weight. Miller, LRAM) on Wednesday officers were less vigilant, or car

careful last year murders in Tokyo appear as at- One of these Elder Statesmen, March 25, at the Sailors and drivers more

than in 1934, for in 1935 a total rocities committed by military Prince Saionji, still-survives. He's Soldiers' Home.

summoned before gangsters who have disgraced their is now nearly 100 years old, has Sir Thomas Sorthorn, KRE of 7,538 were

as compared with uniform. It is, however, not at no colleagues, and-occupies a uni- CALG. also chose this occasion to the Courts,

Japanese opinion que position in Japanese life. It Hong Kong. Thursday, April 2, 1936) make a special donation to the 8.652 who failed to escape the clear that

Home of $300 for the renovation eyes of the traffic police during would so regard them were it able is significant that the injured Fin-

to express itself freely.

ance Minister, Mr. Takahashi, a of the billiard table. Sir W-the year 1991.

Revenue from fines dropped.

According to the Japanese code, man only a few years Prince The Lindbergh Case iam Hernell on the same

casion promised to bear a third from $38,010, which was collected murder, like suicide, is justifiable Saionji's Junior, was summoned by Without being in any way part of the cost of renovating an-Jin 1964, to $32,115 during last when committed out of patriotic him from retirement when the motives, and during the past few economic depression first descend- Junduly sentimental over the other billiard table.

Prosecutions

years there has been more thaned on Japan. The Rev. E C. H. Tribbeck matter, one may perhaps be

Of the 7,538 prosecutions in-one case of a political murderer

Ancient Spirit permitted to deplore the cat would be glad to learn at any

anly 7,011 paid the going to the police station to give The aim of the men who led and-mouse business of the friends who would care, singly istituted execution of Bruno Hauptmann. or together. to subscribe the re- $32,115, the charges against 231 himself up after perpetrating his Japan into her New Era was to take over all the science of the Yet another reprieve has been maining two-thirds (viz., $200) of being withdrawn. 239 being discrime.

We Europeans are far more in-West, but at the same time to charged and the remainder re- granted, subjecting the man to this cost.

dividualistic in our thought than maintain the Japanese spirit, more $275.00 (manded.

28.00 During the same year a total of the Japanese, and have some difparticularly as embodied in the

12.129 traffic accidents were re-ficulty in entering into the feelings Emperor,

the renewed tortures of alter-Sales of tickets

nating hope and despair, so that Donations

if the execution comes at last

there will have been a consider-

11

able amount of extra mental Less Sundry expenses" suffering for the doomed man

which should not by rights have Nett proceeds been vouchsafed to him.

There is probably great deal of truth in the contention of Governor Hoffman, that Hauptmann was not the only man concerned in the crime; but

his corollory, that in that case

The should not suffer for it until his co-partners have also been brought to justice, would, if logically persisted in, deny the rights of the State to extract

what

of advertise- ments after deducting cost of printing and general ex- penses Sales of programmes"

Total Nett Income

-30

[year.

303.00

against 1.567 in the of a Japanese patriot who mur It is this anxiety to maintain, 27.80/ported, as

were 69 ders a trian whose activities he ze the ancient Japanese spirit which previous year. There 275.20 fatal accidents, as compared with gards as an outrage on the spirit has made it not merely easy, but

55 in 1934. Two, prosecutions for of Japan.

naturaläför authority to condemn But what is the spirit of Japan?an Western political thought as manslaughter were instituted, "one resulting in a conviction, while The issues which led to last month's dangerous. Nor is it accident that bloodshed go back to the very be the earlier phases of the present

$70.85

6.35 the other was withdrawn.

Of the 1,260 persons who were ginnings of the New Bra in Japer, struggle were fought out over $552.60 examined as motor drivers, 1,036 were granted their licences, the remainder falling to pass the test.

CORRESPONDENCE

The Royal Empire Society

LORRY DRIVER SENTENCED

now nearly 70 years ago.

&

text-book by Professor Minode Early Pronouncement which had been in use in Japanese When the great Emperor Mut-universities for 30 years. Using sahito, then a boy of 15, over-Western constitutional language,, threw the fendal system, be an-the book described the Japanese nounced that he had taken all ex-Throne, just as an English writer lecutive power into his own hands, might describe the British Crown,

but promised that an assembly as an institution. should be conroked and that public It is now contended that cowardly and cold-blooded

Wah San, a lorry driver, jopinion should, decide on all mea-Emperor is not merely an institu- tion, but the very essence of the murder against one who is the above: Society should com Cheung Fat-to, Sit On. and Lijsures.

Actually the Constitution ef State; the book has been withdrawn proved, so far as the process of municate with me at once, because Shin, fishermen, were this morn- the law is concerned, to have!

restitution for

was 2

To the Editor, "China Mail"] Sir. All who desire to join!

the

bad a hand in it. We are not on the completion of the rebuild-ing charged before Mr. W. Scho-Japan dates from 1889. though and its author has had to resign

of

the

ing of the new premises in North-field at the Central Magistracy the rescript promulgating it was his life membership of the Upper

conduct jin a position at this distance to

in issued eight years earlier. More-House- Trafalgar with disorderly umberland Avenue,

over, the Constitution itself was This agitation against a 30-year- judge whether Hauptmann is

time. Main Street, Shaukiwan Square, in a few months' actually guilty or not. It is no the payment of the entrance fee The first defendant was sen-constructed on the German model old book gives the che" to

hard and, while giving legislative power whole present situation. The Em- uncommon thing for malefae of one guinea, which has been tenced to three months' tors in the United States to escape the consequences of theirTemporarily suspended, will once labour and ordered to pay com-ito Parliament, made Ministers re-peror and his equnselors had pensation of $3 to the others, sponsible to the Throne and not already become legendary figures crimes, and it is no less uncom-more be imposed

The Annual subscription for awhile the other defendants were to the House of Representatives when the Constitution came into There was the further complica-[being. All the threads of power mon for mistakes to be made in! non-resident Fellow is aly £1.11.6 bound over in a bond of $50 for TRUNK &

sir-were gathered up into their hands, for which six months.

tion that the Emperor was the best-regulated courts justice. America has one or per annum, in return"

Mr. P. H. Sin appeared for the rounded by counsellors who, before and they worked smoothly toge

defendants three

and the Constitution came into ex- ther." BAG DEPARTMENT. to notorious examples to its Fellows receive the interesting

Where Is The Power? discredit; the Scottsboro case, Journal "United Empire, and, last for instance, can hardly be held when they are home on leave, have pleaded guilty. He said that the istence, were organised into a body

well-jof Elder Statesmen, whom it was But the great Emperor is dead, up as a model of how these an excellent Meeting-place in the first defendant was

heart of London where board and known hooligan in that district the Emperor's habit to consult on and his muccessor went out of his things should be conducted.

lodging can be obtained and where and had tried to force the others all important issues and whose mind. Of the Elder Statesmen only But all that is by the way,

of an unique to use his lorry to transport

Jone still survives, and from the that the first defendant had nature of things the last of the so far as the Lindbergh case is they have the use

On the face of it Empire Library, containing over fish.

When they refused be concerned.

25-used a spanner, with the result makers ́of modern Japan can have 200,000 volumes and 1,000 Empire

saulted them.

that the others had to be sent no successor. Where, then, is the Hauptmann's guilt appears to

periodicals.

Sub Inspector O'Connor to the Hospital, but only the se-power? have been firmly established.

This year Fellows on leave in

(Continued on Page 11.) with Mr. Sin and said cond defendant was detained.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

L'ANE CRAWFORD LTD.

With Food as it as Accountants

Secretaries, Cost Accountants, Works and Office Managers, Chief Clerks, Bank and Insurance Officers, Cash- iers and Book-Keepers are the normal attainments of those who qualify with The School of Accountancy. (London). Examinations can be taken in Hong Kong and success gunt- anteed by postal training. The School of Accountancy (London) is the leading institution in the British Empire for the building of enccessful Business Careers. Write for Free 180p. Book No. 2 "The Direct Way to Success." stating age, education and business experience. The School of Account- ancy (London), P. O. E. 909, Hong Kong.

TRY ONE BOTTLE

THAT WILL CONVINCE YOU OF THE MERITS OF

ST. GEORGE'S GIN

It costs less than other. gins of like excellence

HIGH IN QUALITY

-LOW IN PRICE

Obtainable from all leading Hotels, Clubs, Stores and

Compradores or by Phoning 25913.

Local Agents:

MAISON, F. MATHIEU, Ste. Ame.

He was proved to have been in England will also enjoy the pri-agreed possession of a substantial porlege of going to the Empire

tion of the ransom money,

which he could not account for Summer School at Bristol Univer- except by vague references tosity from July 24 to 1, at which business profits" in trade with a number of distinguished speak- another German who died beers will deliver addresses. fore his testimony could prove

of

I should add that ladies are

EL E. POLLOCK, Hon. Corresmondine Secretary.

STRANDED “PEI

AN

"

or disprove the statement. The eligible for election as Fellows.

Thanking you for kindly insert- evidence of the handwriting on the ransom notes and its marking this letter. led similarity to that

Hauptmann seems to have been conclusive. And finally, there is nothing in his previous re- cord to belie the possibility that ja crime of this sort is quite the sort of thing in which Hauptmann might have partici- pated. Most men will do mast things for easy money.". At the age of 19 Hauptmann was concerned in a highway robi

The tug Taikoo, owned by the] bery, following a number of Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering petty thefts carried out with

Co., Ltd.. left this morning for another young man he had the Eakhlong Islands, where the already established the reputa chinese freighter Pai An has been tion of being the "bad boy of hard aground since the early bis native place when he stow hours of Tuesday morning. The ed away for America. He

TUG LEAVES FROM HONG KONG

appears to have gone fairly Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser steadily at his trade during his Hai Ping went to the assistance of the vessel from Hoihow and first few years in that country, is still standing by, though there but he felt the depression, as no immediate danger to the everybody else did when it came, and it is quite conce.vship Nos. 1 and 2 holds are Bown to have Been Alled, but able that the "easy money" of;

a kidnapping might have sugalvage is possible without very gested itself to him, either great difficulty.

singly or in company with other

desperadoes. In short, there is will point, to the innocence of really no reason to suppose that this man, it is only right that he is an innocent man, being every effort be made to pre- hounded to his doom under sent it; but he should not be false charges,

subjected to any more of the His execution is not likely to refined torture of alternating be welcomed by anybody for its fear and hope. Either his guilt own sake; but it is desirable should be accepted once and for that the ends of justice be all, or he should be given the served, however much ordinary benefit of the doubt and allowed people regret the necessity, for to. go free. There is much to the benefit of the law-abiding recommend the latter course, citizens in the land. If there even if it does err on the side. is any possibility of fresh of leniency; but he has suffer evidence being adduced which ed enough.

а

GOUDELIN, Toulouse, WROTE HIS WILL WITH A SINGLE WORD-YOURS

:PALINDROMIC FIGURES

112=121 112=12321

E1234321 101512395432!

.ETC."

LIGHTNING BURNED THE CLOTHES, OFF JOHNNY BENNETT WITHOUT INJURING HIM

Maplin's Ferry Ohan

PLATO

WAS NOT NAMED FOR HIS BRAINS BUT HIS BRANN. HE WAS CALLED PLATO BEČAUSE OF HIS WIDE SHOULDERS?

CHARLES H:GRAKELOW

of Philadelphia. BELONGS TO 58 FRATERNAL

ORGANIZATIONS