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they lose materialistic concepts of their particular god. Already the human law - among nations › has patterned the demand, “Thou Shalt Not Kill" And the moral Trevolt against Japanese aggre

sion and aga war in general will go on until that demand is ions intended for satisfied also in the law among

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Subscript

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HK$18.00

Emergency Alarm

The first

Cost yesterday of

Hong Kong's emergency alarma system could scarcely be describ- ed as satisfactory. Our own in- pression was that the method of conveying warning was far too. transitory and fleeting to achieve its purpose. The boom of maroons was plain enough but the syrens of naval craft could not be heard in Queen's Road Central above the noise of traffic, while the police portable syrens seemed subject to much the same criti- cism. They were fast fading in the distance before they had Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1937 conveyed the imperious type of

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warring one imagines to be es- sential to command instant at- tention. Effective warning in the event of a genuine · emergency surely requires the

e-employment Whether or agrees with the of a method which in itself ex- submissions or not, and some of sistency is the dominating fac

presses urgency, and in which the excuses revolt the moral tor. Factory hooters properly sense as sharply as the barbarit exploited would serve the pur- les and excesses giving rise to pose much more satisfactorily international protest, it offers

than any of the devices adopted yesterday. some measure of satisfaction that the Japanese should be im pelled to pay lip service to civilis-

xj

ed conduct by presenting them What Makes Films selves as greatly misjudged pec-

ple. At least, it reveals a desire Popular?

to avoid condemnation, even

Why do people go to the mov-

against such evidences of lack of ing pictures? Mr. Gilbert Selde

repentance as was provided last the American critic, has just week when Honam Island's con-thrown the British film world in- gested quarters were shattered to agitated discussion by hazard- by bombs which took the lives of ing the revolutionary and as- more than a hundred non-com-tounding opinion that they go to batants miles from any military see moving pictures. Whereas, establishments

of course, everybody supposed There is, indeed,

to they went to see stars. hom say, nothing the conduct of Mr. Seldes has been doing some the campaign in Shanghai or of research work on this matter, the operations of aircraft and he has come to the conclusion South China which give reason to that the film makes the star far believe that the Japanese milit more often than the star makes arists are prepared to concede the film. When Rudolph Valen anything to world opinion, to stay tino, for example, ppeared their hand in any form of ruth-in the "Four Horsemen of the lessness if they believe they can Apocalypse" he was comparative- thereby destroy more speedily by unknown. Yet this film the Chinese morale. It is Tokyo's grossed far more than did anyw publicists and her diplomats, who of his subsequent pictures made have the task of explaining away after he had become one of the these aberrations from civilised three most famous screen players behaviour, and the explanations in the world are many and

unger that is quite the

should

for th

ity

fed:

ness

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Side by side with of lawlessne

Bull It seems ten films that have The obtained more than $600,000

the stre

ing

strations comes a deep and

Jonas

ather than individual. It would

if people will film even if it is a film