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PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR.

LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY"

BY PROFESSOR SMITHK"

The sprigs of lectures on psyáhplagyis relation to industry wore continued at the University yesterday evening, when Professor Smith apoke on the Payeho- Rogy of War."

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In wat, hè suid, it was not always the survival of the strongest that ruled, that was in modern war. The bullet and the

ROSSESSION CASE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH

JUDGMENT FOR LANDLORD,

Apartly baarisonse,í inveäich the land- land of No. 32, Staunton Street, 'Hung Shuk Hing Teng, claimed possession from the occupiers, was resumed in the Sum- mary Court, before the Puisse Judge (Mfr. Justice Compertz) yesterday morning Plaintiff also claimed. three months rent and inesne profits.

Mr. C. A. S. Rass appeared for the shell killed indiscriminately, and it was plaintiffs, and Mr. J. T. Pryor for the often the bravest that'¦died first... One | defendants. point from which the psychologist ap- proached war was that.every people tend ed to over-populate their country and the instinct of nature for the surgical of the fittest worked through individual psycho- logy and about once in a hundred years there came a general killing off. That

Mr. Pryor, for defendants, said the plaintif made a demand for increased rent, but defendants declined to pay, and that the proper, rent was offered, but plaintiff declined to accept it. Mr. Russ said the reat was never offered.

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DARING NIGHT 'BURGLARY.

MESSRS. A TACK'S VHØNED.

GOODS 'WOR $13,000 STOLEN.

CANTON NEWS.

27TH, 1965.

[FROM OUR TEINERE. CORALSPONDENT.}.

TAXES ON. IMPORTED MERCHANDISE.

Kerosene oit at Canton, which at

In the early hours of yesterday morning. burglars were busy at the premises of the present wholly imported. is now well-known firm of Messrs. A. Tack and to bear an additional tax like many Co., of No. 26, Des Four Road Central, other imported articles, such as cement, dealers in furniture, jewellery and photo-alcohol, rubber, and the like. The graphic apparatus. It is estimated that Bureau dar the Inspection of Kerosene the burglars stole goods to the value of Oil for the Province of Kwangtung, à $13,000.

newly created office, on March 24th,

at the rear of Messrs. Lock Hing's shop,to report their addresses and take out The A. Took premises are situated just called upon all dealers in kerosene oil which was recently visited by a gang of in advance revenue stamps to be affixed thieves. It is presumed that the burglar en cans upon sale. A stamp of 30 cents or burglars found their way through the is required for every can of five gallons. maze of alleyways intersecting the blocks Payment is to be in Chinese national His Lordship gave judgment for plain-of buildings, and got into a small passage currency, or local

in between the A. Tack premises and the coins at a fixed discount of 23 per cent. Canton subsidiary Dragon Motor Car Company, or may have Failure to attach revenue stamps of the dropped from the scaffolding around the

amount required will render the dealer P. &0. Building. There was a small whatever means they reached the pas duty, besides the confiscation of the door in the passage alluded to, and by liable to a fine ten times the stipulated

sage, apparently they had no difficulty in goods seized. Persons accepting impro- removing the staple and holt

|perly stamped or instamped kerosene mil Show cases were prised open and goid, are able to be fined five times the were also removed from the window show and egents have asked forrige importers and platinum fountain pens taken. Goods amount of the tax The nativa deakts

of kerosene oil to, lodge a protest with the authorities against the stamp duty requirements on the ground that this

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TAI O RAID. WOMAN KHLED AND BOOTY

WORTH $21,600 TAKEN.

instinct was always obeyed. Greater tiff with costs, with a stay of execution energy was displayed in proving after at the 20th of the present Chinese month. war, that the other side was in the wrong than was displayed in the actual winning of the war. Why were people anxious to do this? Because the deads of war im- ONE -pressed civilised people as being morally wrong, and it hemme necessary the blante should be put on the other side.. The la connection with the sensational maral sense of the individual repudiated attack by armed robbers on Taj Oon war as being wrong; hat, once that moral Wednesday, reported in yesterday's Daily mense was satisfied, that the other people Press, our representative was officially started it. or were in the wrong, they informed on making an inquiry yesterases. The shatters were up at the time, and the sobbers did their work with little prosecuted war with the same degree of day, that the raiders escaped with a haul mercilessness. In the last was the Allies of money, jewellery, clothing and piece

danger of being discovered. did wage it with a good deal more mercy | Moda, valued approximately at #21,590. and restraint than did the Germans. One woman was killed during the raid, The result was that the feeling of hate the Allies denied during the war had existed through three years of a peace which was not a pesce A

In was, for the time being man became possessed of a desire to (alay, but then in the course of time the blood lust" was satisfeil. That was why the desire for blood was never satished in the civilian at Home. At Christians 1914, the troops on both sides had had enough ighting A.Christmas truce was declared, but when it was wwer, the leaders on both sides had the utmost difficulty in getting the mea to start ghting again. That trace was never tried again.

All people in war were sure that they were right-that the other side started it and the felt an enger which was only satisfed in reducing the other side to impotence.

AN END INVENTED..

Only jewellery, gold and platinum was to open the safe, hat the thieves appar- duty and the likin taxes payable on touched, though an attempt was made taxation over and above Customs import one wounded, while two men were kid-ently did not make much progress in this import is unlawful. napped. It is hoped to discover where direction. the robbers-came from prior to minking the raid, and every effort is being made to run the gang to earth.

FIRE ON S.S. TALMA."

JUTE CARGO ABLAZE.

and platinum watches, diamond earrings, Amongst the articles taken were gold

diamond broaches, and gold fountain pens and pencils.

AN EFFECT OF THE WARFARE. Nothing connected" with the paesent guerilla warfare in Kwangtung Province seems to cause so much annoyance to the The manager of Mesars. A. Tack, stated large body of well-to-do Cadenese as the yesterday that apparently the robbers threatened shortage of out tobacco. from were disturbed in their search, and left Fukien. Many Chinese ladies as well as the early hours of yesterday morn He had been aroused on several nights tobacco silver-shining water pipes which before they could secure all they wanted, gentlemen are accustomed to use this ing. a disastrous fire occurred on the previously by a dog barking, but on going are to be found together with ten sets in British India Steam Navigation Co.'s downstairs to investigate. had found steamer Talara, which arrived on Tuesday nothing wrong. He heard the dog bark-

The alarm was given shortly before 5 ing during the night, but did not trouble cus-tobacco, a popular protection of am, and two engines from the Eoaloon to go below, but the thieves might have Fukien, has long found its way to Can The naval float Government float and are station arrived almost immediately been seared aay by the barking of the too, from Yungting, by way of Swatow. Fire Brigade float were also quickly on the spot. Passengers aboard the Talma were cut ashore.

The goods were not insured.

ARMS CASE.

CHINESE RECEIVES MAXIMUM PENALTY.

the homes of well-to-do Chinese. This

More than 400 farm women, many of them carrying babies on their hacks, sou with small flags in hand bearing their graving. In bold characters, paraded Prom, the Wast Gate of Canton to Govern- ment House at acon on March 24th, pray- ing for the repeal of the new tax on sucking pigs, which the farmers change! with one another mainly for

a police raid on the ing purposes. The Commissariat of

A cargo of jute in No. 3 hold was found to be on fire and the hold was immediate- One often heard it said the end justity flooded, this being the only course fed the means. What was really meant possible under the circumstances. This was that the means were wanted and an measure saved No. 2 hold from get- end was invented to justify them. Here ting light. The fire was extinguished the lecturer instanced the religious fan-in about five hours but the fire brigade The sequel to tic who, in his endeavours to remove did not leave until 11, a.m. The jate was Emprèn of Ruasia on Wednesday was Finance has imposed a wor tax ranging heresy and heretics, found his greatest still smouldering until lats in the afterbeard before Mr. E. W. Hamilton na from 20 to 60 cents on every sucking nig delight in torture. President Wilson nom yesterday, but there was then uo the Kowloon

possibility of a fresh gutbreak. The cause when a Chinese who had voyaged on the out for collection, and according to the Magistracy yesterday, that changes hands. The tax is farmed of the fire and the nature and extent of liner from Canada pleaded guilty to the Canton Republiena of March 9th. the the damage are as yet unknown.' possession of 2 revolvers. I rifle, and 350 militarists calculate on receiving bu

Much of the cargo in Ner 2 bald was rounds of ammunition. damaged by water and heat.

$8,000 annually from the tax collector, A fine of $1,000 was imposed, with 19 while the latter is, reckoned to profit to

the extent of $80,000 and perhaps more.

made research into the causes of war and -invented a panacea for it, the League of Nations He did not believe in the League of Nations, but he saw that such an organisation was bound to hang up a declaration of war at least for eight hours, and hoped that in that time war might be avoided.

John Drinkwater had said in one of bis plays that war was the result of anger

The Taling was built in 1923 at New-months hard labour in default. castle. her grass tonnage being 10,000, and net, 6,154 She is one of the recent additions of the British India Co. to the Hongkong service. Her passengers on,

in people when confronted with problems this occasion were 51 European and 68% they could not understand.

That was Anines. She was due to leave for Shang- rue. The problem they could not under- bai to-day, but her departure has been stand was the problem of their owa postpondit,

zulares.

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It was a feeling of patriotism which kept men Eghting. What was patriotișın / The French called their country La Patrie. Patrie, of course, was Father and La was feminine. Patriotion was but feeling we had towards our country and that was why we spoke of it as the Mather or Fatherland. The French com- hined the two in one phrase. We never became completely independent of par.

entul influence.

EAST AND WEST.

Dealing with the differing psychology of East and West the lecturer said the West locked with horror on the fact that in the East people had no, regard for the fate of those outside their own family, and the East looked, with amazement on the West, as in a time of war it set about

to make widows and orphann on a colossal scale. The latter circumstance was be- cause the social laws in the West 'were high and" when the real selves of the Westerners broke out it, did so in a way more awful and terrible

MOTOR BUS ABLAZE. FITTER BADLY · BURNED.

HELENA MAY MUSICALE

AN ENJOYABLE PROGRAMME.

CORRESPONDENCE.

NATIONAL MUSIC.

A BUTCHERS' STRIKE AT CANTON, According to the Pork Trade Guild of Canton, more than 200 batcher shops, are involved in the, present suspension of trade as a protest against abuses alleged to be created by officers of the Municipal Department of Public Health. While there is every disposition on the part of Six--Unfortunately we have no one the public to welcome vigorous prosecu with the pen and musical insight, oftion of butchers who keep their shops and surely have been an onslaught on some

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKoka”

DAILY PRESS"}

Ernest Newman, otherwise there would stands in an unsanitary · state,

One of the most enjoyable and success-of the contentions-mainly implied-in vernacular ful musicales of the season was that given at the Helena May Institute yesterday

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your yesterday's leading article. To sug-butchers, reasons for the present suspen- press sympathise with the gest that because a thing is popular it is therefore good is absurd. To suggest sion. of "trade. The contention of the

afternoon.

that the music in Sullivan's operas is meet market guilds is that inspectors;. Despite the inclemency of the weather, more or less super-excellent is another when seizing.articles for inspection pur- there was a good attendance and the The Gondoliere as was ever trolled pours and chemical analysis should take absurdity. There is is much mediocrity capital programme which was admirably out by a street organ, and an examina enly a small piece back to the Depart rendered, received much appreciation in tion of the score will soon prove it. Itment of Public Health laboratory and the way of applause,

has been said that those who strive

not carry away pounds of sausages to Fufter times to-day are but the gram

marians of music. Who said it and what their own kitchens and test them in their are the facts upon which such a sweeping own stomachs. In the recent campaign as Elgar, irsiand, Stravinsky, Holst, zsertion is madi Are such men against impure food in Canton, the

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The full programme given was as under: Pianoforte Holo, Madame Bonenfant, Bong, "Moira," (Bothwell Thomson), Mr. I E. Hopkins.

Harty, and a host of others, mere grambutchers call it a financial campaign for Soug, A Little Brown Bird Singing," marians? The fact is that such a wealth raising funds for the Health Depart (Hayda Wood), Mrs. Beale,

of tradition has surrounded the Gilbert Eagor.

Song.

"I am so Sleepy," Mr. Oscar and Sullivan combination as to hide thement expenses owing to the failure of the weakness of most of the music. At the Municipality to appropriate money re- Plantation Songs, Mrs. Russell-Brown. taost it is understanded of the people gularly for its maintenance-more than Pianoforte Solo, Madame Bonenfant. it creates a sense of lightness and at 100 butchers shops were fined and about lock, K.C.

Recitations, The Hon. Sir Henry Pol- that finishes-a considerable achievement

Fadmit All Sallivan's real contribu$9,500 realized. The butchers, thereupon, Song.

The Morning," (I Speaks), Lion to music is unhonoured and now on March 24th decided to suspend busi Mrs. Bealo.

alas, unsuing. Where are some of bisness temporarily, as a protest. The Bong, "I hear you Calling me," (Matarklas and wholly admirably songs? shall), Mr. L. E. Hopkina,

These are-to, quote the writer of the Mayor of Canton, however, has been good .Song, She told me to meet her at article "different to the typically Eng- enough to assure the butchers that he the Clute," Mr. Oscar Enger.

tish productions of "Sullivan." And by will look into their complaint,.. being different from them they stand out better and, free from alloy.

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At the Marine Court yesterday, before

To say that Chinese music is not 'As the result of a Kai Tack motor bus Lint-Comdr. G.F. Hole. R.N., the delightful is also absurd. Some Chinese catching are when a fitter was refilling masters of the steam-inoach Auong Hot music, to the Western mind is terrible. the petrol tank, in the yard of the bus and the steam launch See her, were each On the other hand, some is exceedingly premises in the carly hours of yesterday fined $10 for being under way without interesting, and has moved at least one morning, the fitter was bedly burned, and having a certificated engineer on board, eminent composer to emulationYours, was removed to hospital

At the same court, the master of the ete., steam-launch Inde, was fined $10 for fail

As APPRENTICE. ing to observe the ruin of the road. -- Hongkong, March 25th, 1925,

The bus was soon à mans of flames, and the wood structure was burnt out.

With their evi decisión to serve no tween the Fish Market Guild and the more fish on account of dispute be-. Waiters and Cooks Union in Canton, the Canton restaurants inay have to close down entirely until the butcher shops re open for business. most, the larger restaurants in Canton, Without fish and with their heavy over-head. expenses, cannot well compete with, the noodle anil soup eating places,·

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