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Hongkong Daily Press.

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Our London Letter.

THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

"PUNCH" TO REFUSE LIQUOR ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE DISCUSSION REGARDING MEN'S CLOTHES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

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"WHY PEOPLE SEEK DEATH.

INDIGESTION A CAUSE OF SUICIDE.

HOBBY ANTIDOTE.

What makes people commit suicide? The suicide of a distinguished biologist, Dr. Kammerer, a few days ago, at the time when he had received a good ap- pointment, has revived this question, which was put to a famous surgeon by Daily Erpres representative.

that

It is my experience," he said, suicide is almost invariably due to ill health or family or business trouble. A suicide will often be found to have an unhappy home."

The commonest physical cause ia the constant depressing effect of indigestion. The condition which the layman calls biliousness is responsible for a sad out, look op life, which in time is regarded as not being worth living.

LONDON, September 25th. It is really remarkable to observe how the Boy Scout movement continues to grow and flourish throughout the world. According to Lord Hampton; the Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts' Asse ciation, the movement has increased in. the last two years by 200,000. Practically overy country now has its Scouts As sociation. In Japan, for instance, there are over 60,000 Boy Scouts; and, in this connection I note that a distinguished Japanese naval officer has just left Eng-times be responsible for suicide was The idea that overwork might some- land for New York route for hotne.

This is Rear-Admiral Count Tsuncha Sano, of the Imperial Japanese Naval Reserve. He came to Europe to attend the Fourth International Scout Confer. ence in Switzerland, and has also been paying risita in" this country.

It must be encouraging to all who are nctively ideatified with the Boy Scouts to realise that, apart from the good work which is being done among the rising generation in their own area wherever it may be, they are also an association with a movement which has an international importance of great and far-reaching

value.

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I have never known overwork do any man harm," said this authority. "What does the harm is that people sometimes Aly to drugs or alcoholic excess to find relief from the consequences of overwork. Then the mischief begins.

I or Unhappy.

"A man who contemplates suicide is obviously and inevitably either an ill man or an unhappy man. The impulse is largely physical. You cannot separate the physical from the mental. The same blood which supplies the brain supplies

the body.

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"If you are in the habit of hurrying over your meals, take your time. If you have been living alone, move more among your fellow-beings. Endeavour to im- prove your health and secure change and relaxation.

Consult a doctor. That is the first The proprietors of Punch have decid- advice to give people who feel that there ed not to accept any advertisements of may be a way out of their difficulties in tracts have expired. I need scarcely say probably be that the habits of life muat that this change of policy is a great-sur- be altered prise to the public. Any paper is, of course, perfectly entitled to refuse to in- sert any advertisement it thinks fit, and there are quite a number who exclude notices relating to money-leading and betting. But the new departure comes rather oddly from Punch, whose humour, particularly in its illustrations, has drawn deeply from alcoholic spring Many of Charles Keen's and Phil May's jokes camo from the humours of inebriety, and Mr. Raven Hill, too, has found much inspiration there.

If drink is to be abolished from Punch's advertisements the obvious corollary-but nn. nimest unimaginable ones to ban from its literary columns all jokes deal- ing with inebriety, since these might often be. regarded as advertisements ex- tolling good liquor in general. Thus,

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號入廿月拾年五十國民等中

AIR LINER FALLS IN FLAMES.

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT TONBRIDGE

SEVEN LIVES LOST.

TONBRIDGE.

Five British passengers and the pilot and mechanic, both Frenchmen, were burned to death (as reported at the time by Reuter) when a giant four Renault engined Bierist airliner, caught fre above Tonbridge and fell to the ground! in flames.

Not until late in the afternoon were the passengers identified. They were:

Leonard Hambleton, 17, Mount Plea sant-road, New Malden, Surrey, Civi Servant, aged $1.

Miss Gertrude E. P. Hall, the Katherine Law Settlemens, 108, High- street, Battersea, charity worker, aged

10.

Joseph Henry Noble, The Haven, Lee Avenue, Withernsea, E. Yorks

Mias Margaret Nathalie Stainton,

ANYONE CAN SUPPLY CHEAP, GLASSES BUT IT TAKES BRAINS TO

· MARS À BETTER ARTICLE! We accepted this arsed when we started to make good glasse® Over forty years ago, in this Colony, Today, we employ workmen who have been trained atdr European supervision for many years--thone men are the beat. we can find. Our branches are. all managed by Eu ropean qualidad Optometrists. Our lanson are the very best we can buy.

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The pilot was Henri Jacques Mallet, of 2, Rue de la Fraternité, Paris, aged 27, and the mechanic was Jean Bouyer, also of Paris.

The great air liner, the Clement Ader, mot disaster some weeks ago near Ash- was the sister ship of the aeroplane that ord, when four people met their deatha. The new type had recently been built by

twenty passengers. M. Bleriot, and had accommodation for

M. Mallet, a pilot of long expenence, took off from the French nerodrome at 1.30 p.m. His mechanic sent regular wireless messages at the various stages on the journey, and while cruising over All well. Passing over Toabridge", Tonbridge M Bouyer telegraphed:

Watching the Crash.

A few seconds later thousands of people

suicide antidote known to doctors. What of the machine. Many thought that the Abobby is the most important watching a football match near Tonbridge saw a wisp of smoke rising from the-tail the man who contemplates suicide wants pilot was purposely emitting a smoke is something with which to hypnotize screen for experimental purposes, but himself, something to help him to suggest himself out of the suicide complex, gradually the smoke gave place to flames. Nothing will do this so well as a hobby" the machine became a fiery furnace, the tail fell off, and the machine spun to earth a tangled and charred heap.

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ZOO AQUARIUM NOVELTY." "SPITTING" FISHES.

Several experts are inclined to doubt that the fire started in a reserve: petrol tank at the back of the machine, as was first supposed.

Every eye-witness agrees, however, that the flames started at the back of the sero plane, and it is probable that the control wires to the tail were burned and render- ed control impossible. M. Brunst,

The puffer fish, which arrived last- the famous drawing depicting & con-month at the Regent's Park under-water vivial gentleman lying on his doorstep, zoo from Madeira, have since their ar of whom the old lady inquires "Is the rival developed the remarkable habit of poor man ill!" and the cabby replies, coming to the surface, filling their

I wish I'ad 'arf 'is complaint," is as mouths with water, and spitting the con- French Ministry expert, reached the persuasive as any advertisement slogan bents at their keepers, and those privileg: charred wreckage this morning, and te-

ever invented.

ed to be escorted "behind the scenes

Coloured Suits for Men. We seem to be in once more for an effort to re-introduce coloured suits for men, and there are all the old arguments -that colour in men's clothing is not a sign of effemicacy, that style in men's clothes has been far too conservative in is a legitimate one, namely, to secure save his machine daly lasted a lew

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of the aquarium, says the Daily Telegether with British Air Ministry experts, KING EDWARD graph to hand. The marksmanship of is trying to reconstruct the cause of the

accident. the fish is good, and the water is shot out to a distance of over a foot. One M. Mallet made one desperate effort, other 6sh-the archer fish of the fresh when the smoke was first sex, to make waters of Eastern Asia is known to be for Penshurst aerodrome close by, but have in similar manner, but its object there is no doubt that the pilot's fight to the past, and that life would be gaver food. It lives entirely on insects, and on seconds. Once the tail of the seroplane and more attractive men took to wear observing one reposing on a branch over had been burned, the whole machine fell ing more gaudy garments, and so forth. banging the water approaches, with helplessly to the ground. "So fierce was " Most of these arguments are as cogentcaution, purses up its lips, and shoots the blazing inferno that the first people as ever they were; but all the same drops of water at it in order to bring am sure that it is extremely unlikely that it down. It is not the habit of the the majority of mea, will ever respond to marine Buffer Sah to secure their prey in this manner, and there appears to be no satisfactory explanation for their rude, if entertaining, behaviour.

them.

These discussions about the desirability of putting the male sex into brighter, raiment come up regularly, and after Puffer fishes are so called owing to the a lot of talk are conveniently forgotten. power they possess of inflating their There is no general desire on the part bodies with air or water until they be- of men to alter their views as to what come almost spherical in shape. When

the spot were unable to do anything. A woman in a silk dress was still alive when the machine touched the ground, and the rescuers caught one lightning glimpse of her, as she pressed her face against the cabin window clutching, a leather purse in her right hand.

is the right kind of clothes to wear it is fully distended the numerous spines WOOD SPIRIT FOR MOTORS. The wide Oxford trousers, or "Oxford that arise from the skin, which in certain

bags

as they are usually called, of a species may attain a length of half an deve-colour which have been in vogue for inch, rendez it proof against the attack some time are not the mark of the really of most enemies. Their teeth are united well-dressed man, nor will they ever be to form cutting plates, and it has been popular in that sense. Only in what is recorded that when swallowed by a shark known as "sporta wear are bright they are not only able to eat their way colours allowed; and the introduction out of the stomach, but through the sides by no less a person than the Prince of of their captor. The result is that the Wales of the Fair Isle jersey has been shark dies, the puffer fish continuing on enormously successful. I believe most its journey none the worse for its men consider that coloured suits smack encounter. rather of, the light comedy stage, and w for this reason the average man avoids them

Magistrate on Dress,"

On this point it is curious to note that the Mayor of Hove a few days ago, sitting as a magistrate, sternly rebuked

A Lost Fortune.

It is remarkable how quickly a fortune can sometimes be made over a successful play, but it is much more remarkable how those who make such fortunes can

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS

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It is now possible to give the results of the experiment organised by the Auto- mobile Club of France in running motor vehicles of all sorts with fuel other than petrol It has been found that the use of wood spirits, which the name “car- bonite has been given, offers incontest able advantages, Carbonite attracted attention when tried at Blois, Bordeaux,

and in the Franco-Belgian competition, and motor-lorries which used it in the recent experiment came out well technical utility of carbonite has, becz proved, and it is now suggested that

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a young man who appeared in court lose them. Mr. Oscar Asche, of "Chu before him in fannels, and sent him away Chin Chow fame, who has become factories for the manufacture of the new to dress himself properly." The young bankrupt, told his creditors in the fuel should be started in the districts man obeyed, and later appeared in a London Bankruptcy Court this week that dark suit with

Directly under Europoo starched collar like a he lost £45,000 on breeding and train a fhetory at Bayonne, and the aim is City clerk. It is permissible to speculate ing greyhounds in Gloucestershire. The to establish others at what is called what would have happened if the order statement of affairs showed liabilities of strategic points. It is calculated that had been disobeyed, for there is not£44,311, and no net assets.

the refuse wood of forests, sawmills, and any prescribed garb for appearing be It was stated that in 1918 Chu Chin charcoal works represents 8,000,000 tons, fore a magistrate.

Chow was put on at His Majesty's which is not used, sad that the treatment To lay down any hard and fast rule Theatre, the-play being financed by a of wood in the form of carbonite would would raise considerable difficulties, and private company, and Mr. Asche received mean the equivalent of 2,000,000 tons of would necemitate an assessment of the £80 werk salary and £100,000 in petrol annually. A SA AND AN Agents for W. W. GREENER, LI, social position of every person in court. royalties in five years. Then in October, Motor traffic is largely on the increase BIEN TOHAK.

It would presumably be thought disres 1821, Mr. Asche produced at the same in France, as statistics just issued show. theatre a musical play of which he was The number of motor-cars from 1924 to also the author, entitled “Cairo." His 1925 increased by 148,370, and there is a salary amounted to £150 a week, and he prophery that very soon there will be a also had £30,000 in royalties from million motor vehicles-Kot counting "Kismet."-H.3.

motor-cycles, in France.

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