1927-08-24 — Page 10

IN ALL WEATHERS

the Professional "Man

has to be put.

Austin

CARS,

from the "7" to the "20"

are pre-eminently suitable for him.

Easy and economical to drive, to maintain and to garage.

Fall particulars of all models from the Sole Agents:

ALEX, ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.

Prince's Building and la, Chater Road, Telephones: C. 27 and C. 2487.

FAMOUS NAME DIS- HONOURED.

SENTENCE ON A JOSEPH

CONRAD'S SON,

This man has brought dis honour on a great father-one of the most lovable men who ever lived, and his mother is left to bear the shame," said Mr. Roland Oliver, K.C., at the Old Bailey in Appealing for leniency for Alfred Borys Conrad, aged 29, elder som of the late Mr. Joseph Contad, the novelist, who pleaded guilty to con- verting to his own use £1,100 en- trusted to hira for the purchase of manuscripts of his father's works. Sentence of twelve months in the second division was passed."

fr. Eustace Fulton, for the prosecution, said the money Con- rad obtained from Mrs. Bevan to buy manuscripts of his father's works was used to pay off debts, He was made bankrupt soon after

wards, with liabilities of £7,800.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24th, ́1927.

MOTORING NOTES

(CONTD.).

MY CAR, JANE, AND I.

[BY A WOMAN OWNER-DRIVER.]

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Treat your car sa if it were alive, not as a dead, mechanical thing. Treat it as you would your favcut- ite dog on your pet hunter. You will get much more work out of it,

of driving.

GREYHOUND RACING IN LONDON.

"ENGLAND ** BEATS "AMERICA,"

AN EXCITING HURDLE RACE.

THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, August 23rd.

MR. H. G. WELLS'S DELUSIONS.

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GENERAL STRIKE NOVEL

"ALL WRONG" SAYS "THE DAILY MAIL."

THE LOST PROFESSOR,

FORGOTTEN IDENTITY

MYSTERY.

CURIOUS ITALIAN ČASE.

ROME.

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A-U.S. BOY LOOKS AT ENGLAND:

[BY CHARLES H. MOORS, A member of the Kent School erew from Connecticut, V.S.A., which competed at Henley Regatta.]

The Arst thing our ore noticed The extraordinary story of a man after arrival in England was that We give the following Daily in Caltegno Asylum who cannot re crowds, traffic, transportation are Mail review of Mr. H. G. Wells's member his identity, and who six all handled with great care and new, novel Meanwhile. The pic-months ago was identified as Pro-efficiency.

When wa

Fifty thousand spectators includ-ture of a Lady." According to cur fessor Giulio Canella, of Padua, We are impressed, too, by the and you will get much more fun outing Mayor Walker, of New York. contemporary Mr. Wells has spoilt who disappeared in a skirmish in efficiency with which the Hunley

a fine story by trying to put the Macedonia in the war, again excites Regatta was managed. world right

public curiosity. After the man learned that just about one hun- been better fare if the author had

Mr. Wella's new novel would have had been declared by th: professor's dred crews were entered we expect cut out of it the interminable poli-wife, brother, and children to be ed a good deal of confusion. tieni argaments and disquisitions the professor himself, and had been with which he has padded its pages taken away by them, he was sad His reflections on the general strike denly removed once, more by order will no doubt secure him. a multi-

Baw England beat Americs at the White City, when the English grey- bound Waterbubble, wearing the Union Jack, outstripped Rollo. wearing, the Stars and Stripes, in one of the most exciting hurdle

races ever seen on the track.

To me a car is a living thing. I think most owner-drivers regard their little "buses" in the same way. I talk to mine when I ac celerate suddenly to meet some un- expected traffic necessity.

"Come on, Jane you can get Rollo, who started favourite, kept the lead till the last hurdle, where, through here easily," I say as we

to avoid being squeezed with a magnificent leap, Water spart against a lorry by an unsympathe-bubble passed his rival. tic taxicab.

My present "'bus "a claret- coloured coupé, with leather up- holstery to match-ia Jane II. Her predecessor was a grey, two- seater whom I christened Jane Elizabeth. Naturally, she became Jane for short.

The crowd set up a roar that must have been heard miles away.

Mayor Walker presented the cup to Waterbubble's owner,

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GOLF.

AMERICAN AMATEUR

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CHAMPIONSHIP.

' [BEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

for

But everyone seemed to know just what to do without the pre- sence of officials.

It seems to me that the English an get more fun out of their sports

all much more seriousis. It sur- decision prised us to see men in middle age rowing in the same crews as fellows

as than we do at home. We take it

tude of readers in Petrograd and of the police, who believed that

Red Wales; but it is a pity they had proofs that, he was the lets his foolish obsessions run away with him and doce Bruneri, and he was re-interned in

ordinary imposter krown verify his facts. His account of the part played by The Daily Mail on Collegno Asylum until a the outbreak of the strike, example, is a complete travesty of

had been given by the courts. the trach.

A wealthy uncle of Professor of our own age. In America, ex When the Socialists and poli- Canella has now come from Brazil cept for golf and tennis, a man's ticians are not talking, the story and is determined to obtain the participation in sports stops when moves briskly and has abundance of liberation of the man whom he be graduates from college. episode, humour, and romance. At

ita close it rises to real beauty and considers to be, his nephew. The tenderness. The characterisation is uncle, his brother and wife, have over," did not want the trip to be Our headmaster, who brought us also clever. Mrs. Rylands, the come to Rome together to present simply an athletic episode, so to

lady" of the sub-title, is a charm- ing, and distinguished feminine memorial of 100 pages to the arranged for us to make some visita study, and it is round her beautiful Minister of Justice claiming to

to English public schools. Italian house that the plot identify the inmate of Collegno Radley,

We visited seven schools in all- volves.

Rugby, *Westminster, Asylum as belonging to Curious arguments are adduced- Marlborough, and Etan. We were them. King's (Canterbury), Winchester, that the wife of Bruneri can show turned over to the boys in all of no photograph of her husband even these schools, and they all seemed at the time of their marriage, that just about the same in their general months, lost the greater part of they were entertaining. the inmate of the asylum, in two point of view as the American boys his hair, which, according to told us that they would be reserved People alienists; is

proof of mental in and hard to talk to, but that was Armity, and that the police pro- not the case at all. bably lost the prisoner who was the real Bruneri through his escaping absence of a warder who afterwards from his cell during the momentary delivered another prisoner to the asylum.

There is something about driving and doing things for yourself that you miss entirely if you are merely a passenger. I'd rather change a wheel than have someone do it for me. I don't mind hosing. Jane down and I enjoy polishing her,

MINNEAPOLIS, August 23rd. plint-work Even cleaning the

The leaders and first in the half wind-screen or windows is fun-you of the thirty-six holes qualifying in can do it in a few seconds with the American Amateur Championing the strike und jeering at Mr. metal polish. Perhaps I'm extra ship are two 19-year-old players, stupid, but I did not know until Eugene Homans and Finlay with quite recently how splendid metal 71 and 72, respectively. The 201 polish is for glass. If it comes as year-old Canadian champion, Car rick, took 73, while Evans, Ouimet

a tip new to you, you will bless ine.

Gulle and Greasing. There is one thing I hate doing- that's greasing. When I'm on that messy job I get somewhat wily. Someone is sure to come along and, sticking his hands in his pockets, GIANT LONDON OMNIBUS. give, lordly advice. "So I listen

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6 WHEELS AND 104 PASSENGERS.

A giant omnibus-stated to be the largest in the world-attracted much attention when it arrived at Scotland Yard to undergo official tests.

It was built by the Associated Equipment Company, Ltd., and will be used at present for convey ance of their employees between Walthamstow and the works in Windmill-lane,, Southall, Mid- dlesex.

The chief innovation is a safety ladder from the front part of the covered top deck. In case of need, a door at the side near the front

can be opened and passengers can descend.

Another addition is the covered in stairway leading to the top deck. Fitted with six wheels and pacu- matic tyres, the omnibus, which are Street

named

mcekly and put the grease.gun at a slight angle, so that the oil squirts out instead of it.

The lordly one will say with scorn, "That's not the way to do it, Here, give it to me."

So I hand over the gun with an air of reluctance and gaze "quite, foolishly while the greasing is done properly. It takes quite a long time before I can comprehend the right way of doing it, and by that time a portion, at any rate, of the

nasty job is done.

Sometimes I can hardly, repreea u smile of guilty loy at seeing the work progress. Then I get flung at me, "You little 'beast I believe you knew all the time how to do it properly, Now look at my hands!" Manufacturere and people who declare you can grease a car in your party frock ought to be made to do it and then go to their party. Why, you have to kneel down and pet your arm right underneath the chassis to get at some of the places. Anybody can have the job of greas ing Jane. We both agree, on that point...

and Jones were all 75.

WATER POLO.

The two League matches post- poned from Monday, will be played 'to-day at the Victoria Kecreation Club camber, the first tie commenc- ing at 600 p.m.

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The teams engaged are:-

Royal Navy v. KO.S.B. V.R.C. A v. Scots Guards.

FLYING IN CANADA.

'PLANES TO TAKE MAILS FROM VESSELS.

If only Mr. Wells would cense to imagine that he has a special mission to put the universe right, what books he might give us! We rather silly little sketches, illustrat- cannot congratulate him on the

Churchill and Mr. Baldwin, which be, has inserted.

"For King and Country," Wells is fall of indignation that As for the Daily Mail affair, Mr. the Cabinet should have broken off negotiations when a number of mechanical workers decided to sup- press a leading article in this newspaper. This was not, however, as he states, anti-Labour article but an appeal to national patriotism, entitled For King and Country.' Mr. Wella proceeds:

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The coup was prepared. It was too clumsy, too out of proportion

As far as we could make out they do not know much about America. position at home. English history Of course we are in a very different and English literature are major The inmate of the asylum. meat our own history and Hterature subjects with y we cannot study while appears to be unable to give otherwise. We found but any clue to bis identity and re-school where there was a course in mains perfectly silent..

American history"

"THE ONLY WAY" FILM.

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FOR ROYALTIES.

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I think that this limited horizon applies not only to the history of my own country but also to that of Canada and the other British Dominions. I think most Ameri- can boys know more about Canada and Australia than English boys' know,

to be a genuine thing. Forthwith SIR J. MARTIN-HARVEY SUED the Cabinet bear of The Daily Mail, Remarkably quick. "It's come off," I guess some one said. "Get on with the break." Like a

We shall never forget our mort Mr. Acton Actop-Band, actor, of ing at Eton when we saw the re shot the Cabinet responded.

Avon House, Ferriog-next-the-Sea, | view of the O.T.C. and had the The-Government snatched at the near-Worthing; Sussex, sued Sir privilege of being presented to the excuse of that little Daily Mail John Martin Harvey, in the King's Prince of Wales. There is some. printing office strike, to throw Bench Division, for an account of thing about him which attracts one down the whole elaborate, sham royalties received by him in respect at once. He was so dignified and of negotiating for peace.

to cinematograph performances of yet so simple. He seemed to know Every fact and every conclusion the play, "The Only Way." The why we were over here and wished here is wrong. The attempt to claim was contested.

us to know that he was glad we censor The Daily Mail wai Sir Patrick Hastings, K. C., for came. fourth attack made by irresponsible Mr. Acton-Bond, said the parties I think that the object of our extremists within a few hours upon were associated at the inception of trip, has been accomplished. Eng. the freedom of the Press and liberty the play which was produced in land is our Mother-country, and papers surrendered The Daily Mail ment that out of his royalties Sir understanding of of speech. The three other news 1899, and there was an arrange we go back home with a clearer

England, stood firm against an illegal and John Martin-Harvey was to give greater admiration for England, capricious interference, and the Mr. Acton-Boad & per cent. The and, if I may add it, a more real incident whatsoever until it was he was entitled to have that on Cabinet had no knowledge of the question now arose as to whether affection for England than we had

when we came. over.

the sale of cinematograph rights.

the

Major G. E. Scott and Mr. Gibbs have now returned from their mission to Canada. As a result of their visit the Canadisa Government has decided to erect an airship mooring mast at Mon- treat. The mast-head is being Abysmal Ignorance. ordered through the Air Ministry freedom of speech and of the Press Mr. Wells cares not one jot for in London, but the Dominion will in his own country. But when in make its own contract for build-Italy the Fascists stop grave abusus of that freedom by Communists, he had nothing but ancers for the ing the rest of the mast."

Italian nation.

Major Scott has also visited the United States, and has discussed with the authorities there the ques tien of standardising airship acar-1 ing gear. The masts in America are based on Major Scott's design, but differ from it in certain de- tajia.

About 1901 there was a dispate, the Chancery Division was settled between the partics. An action in

terms under which Sir John cent. of his share (25 per cent.) of was to pay Mr. Acton-Bond & per

the royalties.

Mr. Acton-Bond gave evidence that it was through a statement in The whole country is one great the newspapers that he learned prison. A prison with punish that Sir John Martin Harvey had ments and tortures.

Only sold the cinema rights of the play. you Anglo-Saxons. have won your

Mr. Stuart Bevaz, E.C., for Sir 'way to real freedom, freedom John Hartin Harvey (cross-examin- of thought, freedom of speech and ing). Do you suggest that we have proposal.. .". But that actor, that destroyer, that as to the terms of the film agree Italy endeavoured to keep you ignorant cannibal, aflences as afl,

ment-I do.

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spectator

"the Liner," will carry 104 passengers, Blown Up In France. Detective-Inspector Humphreys which is double the number carried said that Conrad did well in the in the present type of London, Gen- Be inherit cral covered-in omnibus. The new Army during the war. ed £500 a year under his father's vehicle is slightly less than 30ft. will, being one-fifth of the income long, and is it. in. wide.

The Associated Equipment Com- allowed under the will. On tho death of his mother, who was now pasy, Ltd., build the London Gea 56, he and his brother would, in- era! omribuses, and it is therefore Narrow shaves-and "who doesn't patrols. Now aerial transport has Martians and leave politics to those far Sir Patrick Hastings to aug-

the whole estate.

said

possible that the new giant type may be put into public use on the London streets.

FOX-HUNTING IN SPAIN.

The Passenger Who "Drives." - When I'm a passenger in a car I hate it. It makes me nervous. find myself jamining my foot down hard on the floor-boards at awk ward moments. All drivers who Until recently Canada has made are passengers do that. It is a good use of aircraft, but almost instinctive putting on of the brakes. But when I'm driving I love it. entirely for survey work and forest have them driving in London or begun to spread in the Dominion, aby big city that cause my pas- The airway from Hailey to the aenger to turn a shade paler, leave me calm and unruffled.. Jane knows Rougn goldfields actually paid įta me and I know Jane. We trust

way last year without a subsidy each other, a

from the Government. The Cana- dian Government, unlike that of Australia, is opposed on principio to subsidising civil airways.

Presents for Jane. - Jane is just as keen on gadgets as I am. If I roam through the motor department of a big stores and buy one or two little things The Post Office, however, has de- can't afford, I always compromise cided to make a start with air with my conscience by saying, maila. The initial service is de Well, anyway, Jana will love that signed to expedite the incoming At

have a plug-tester, too. She told ing boat service is to work from me the other day one wasn't spark Father Point, in the Rimouski dis ing as well as it should. Besides, trick of Quebec, to Montreal. In she's been standing in the street & the winter the eastern termini will long time, and ought to have some be. St. John's in Newfoundland and thing as a little présent."

Halifax in Nova Scotia. It is ex peeted that this air mail will gradually be extended across the Continent to Vancouver.

To which the critic who "knows" Italy tan only reply that Mr. Wella is once more displaying abysmal ignorance. Let him get back to his who understand them better...

£8,000 For Film Acting. Opening the case for the defence, Mr. Stuart Bevan said it was idle gest that Sir John Martin-Harvey was master of the situation. He could not move without the assent of Mr. Wills (part author of the play) or his executors, who received 25 per cent."of the royalties. Mr. Wills's trustees accepted £500 as half share in the flm rights.

FIGHT FOR NOTTINGHAM MARKET.

OPPOSITION TO REMOVAL

AFTER 1,000 YEARS.

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A stern fight is being waged at Nottingham over the future of the Acres Great Market Place," said to be the largest of its kind in the country. For more than a thousand

thinks that the time has come for ears a market has been held there,

A majority of the City Council

market, to be transferred to a cover- ed ball which it is proposed should be built at a cost of about £45,000 in King Edward'street.

A leader of the organised opposi- tion said:-

We are being robbed of a long- cherished privilege which still "brings with it certain practical advantages, such as keeping down. prices in shops. We like the old- fashioned atmosphere created by the stalls. No covered market in any other city has been able to. pay its way, and there is nothing: to lead us to suppose that Not tingham would prove an excep- tion.

Protest meetings, one attended by 10,000 people, have been held, and found extensive support.

of great grief to him that his son'" spectacle which is repulsive and tyre-tester. I think we ought to Jantic mails, and in summer a new dances they had agreed upon ridence, said he did not know that petitions against the removal have

to Bes..

uncivilized." I have heard defences of "bull-fighting, but Done, that would not amply include the Eng lish-sport.

erit. Richard Curie, an intimate friend of the author and one of his executors, said that after young Conrad had been blown up by a shell in the war he noticed a great mental change in him. Mr. Con- rad's estate had become very valu able, partly through the fim righta but mainly because of the royalties.

One cannot help being alightly Mr.Oliver, for..the tha Joseph Conrad and his amused by the reported Royal de- son trained to be a sailor, as he cree in Spain prohibiting fox-hunt himself had been. It was a mattering on the ground that it affords eyesight prevented him from going An Aggravation. The Recorder, passing sentence said: "I cannot take into con sideration the sorrow that must fall upon your mother and upör Fox hanting has had a fairly ox your wife and child. I am sorry tended history in the Peninsula alas that I cannot take into con Wellington and his officers had ideration the dishonour to your packs of bounds with them, and father's name, for if I did I should thus beguiled the tedium of the, duif

A SATISFIED WIFE. regard it as an aggravating cir- days, behind the lince of Torres cumstance that the name of a man Vedras, who has adorned our English At-that time, one remembers, Bir Friend (congratulating Proud literature should be dishonoured by Arthur Conan Doyle's impulsive father of fine boy): And what's

Brigadier Gerard took part in ma the name to be ?!?! own adminion you run and finished off the fax with Proud Father: “Oh Austin. " have been guilty of a heartless one slash of his sabro, Perhape Friend Admirer of Chamber fraud and have swindled your best the Spanish decree is based on a lain, I suppose.1" friend.

have · defrauded | delusion that this is how the hunt Proud Father: "Oh, no, but my people who could ill afford to part is usually conducted.-Evening wife has always longed for a Baby

Austin,"

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with their money.""

Standard,

I love Jane, and I believe she has a sticking regard for me.-Daily

fail.

A NEW DANCE.

MIXTURE OF ALMOST ALL THE OTHERS.

Sir John, continued Mr. Stuart "Can you Yale 7 "

Bevan, got £1,000 for the right to This question will be asked in make the film, £3,300 for the per ballrooms next winter, if the pro-formance from which the film was phecy of the dancing' teachers is taken, and in addition he was to fulfilled. Last week more than 700 receive something from the receipts of them were in conference, and the of the performance of the film.

Sir John Martín-Harvey, giving were demonstrated in London.

during the past year 6 per cent. The spectators almost unanmously was paid to Mr. Acton-Bond on Mr. J. M. Mackie, an ex-Presi selected the Yale, as shown by Major the 50 per cent. He had never dent of the National Federation of Taylor and his partner, as likely to authorised anyone to alter the Market Fraders of Great Britain, be the most popular,

Agreement !

said: It is a new dance in Blues Cross-examined by Bir Patrick time," Major Taylor aid to a re- Hastings, who asked if the play porter, "and quite slow. Take a The Only Way" had made a basis of Blues, add a flavouring of fortune, Sir John replied: "No," tango, a fox-trot step, and a dash of ¦ but he agreed it had made a fair Charleston, and you have the Yale amount of money.

per-

- Meantime civil flying companies, which mostly carry out survey work, praetically doubled their work in 1926, and the last air vote The dance is supposed to have In filming the play, and Sir in Parliament was also double that originated from the students of John, there were eighteen of the preceding year. Flying in Yale: at least that is where I got formance* Canada is almost exclusively carri- the idez:"-

Sir Patrick: How many thou ed out by flying boats, as the rivers and lakes afford safe places every promenade of the tango playing a year services and eighteen por

The steps are not difficult, the sand pounds did

you

get paid for where for seaplanes to alight and large part

formances I got paid £6,000, where landplanes would often find Meanwhile the waltz has oneo That was exclusive of the valet it impossible to land without a again come into popularity, espe- and personal expenses 1-Yea

cially at private dances.

The hearing was adjourned.

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The council has decided to move the market without consulting the rate-payera. In three hours they decided to sweep away the privileges which have existed from. the days long before William the Conqueror. We are convinced that there is a majority of 100 to 1% against the removal

At one end of the market-place at a cost of £600,000 That this is being built the new City Hall should look down on a collection of stalls is regarded as incongruous by those members of the council who favour the removal of the market.