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LIVING FIGURES

DO THEY ENJOY THIS AGE OF PUBLICITY?

IN THE LIMELIGHT.

PERSONAL VIEW OF SOME MODERN BIOGRAPHIES.

[BY THE VERY Rev. W. R. INGE, DD., DEAN or ST. PAUL'S)

The democratic man is a species: Ought a man to have a copyright of ape, whose strongest instinct is in his own face! And should he gregariousness. He likes to be in not be able to get damages for an the middle of a noise and a crowd, unusually frightful photographi and to be seen in the middle of A great deal may be done by them. Be an average man, and tilting the camera. The result is you are sure of being always in much funnier than the extremely the majority. Enter in by the vulgar caricatures which are now broad gate, and you will have popular. Our beloved Sover plenty of company on the road signs are mapshotted every day in Don't be a pioneer: it is the early attitudes which would justify an Christian that is got by the lion. impeachment for petty treason; The art of success in a democra- they do not seem to mind. Even tic society is to know how to play small people are pursued by upon the ape in "humanity. Let cameras, and if the victim evades the ape and tiger die," said Tenny the focus, the photographer can son. If the tiger is dead, so much get even with him, as I hate just the better; but now the ape has suggested. it all his own way. Nearly all the large fortunes now STU made by supplying tha standardised luxuries of the masses-cinemaa, cigarettes, silk stockings, choco

GIRL IN MURDER GANG.

KILLED IN POLICE RAID.

CRIPPLED LEADER'S LOVER.

LAHOZZ

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE

GLOBING QUOTATIONE.

Juzy śra, 1929.

Do.. London...lady nom. Chartered Banks did buy. DAMTSKISKOM KOMAAs, A.ME...ENŐ nomm.

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A pretty Indian girl, companion of a gang of notorious criminals who P. U. Bari: ma-291 "num. had been responsible for the murders Axis Bank's.......$75 nom.-

Canton Insurances Usal of several headmen of Punjab. Union InsurmaIOEN 1936 buy.

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Xanytere ·LESNIMIONE.re.fl. $50 nom, a midnight round-up and died a few Uhina Underwriters....da bay, 60 hours later of her wounds.

Gmina Fire LuBETANOLA........@so way.

Her name was Bassot Kaur, and Hong Kong In Lizajnom.

Dougiek...@37 sek. the dramatic siege of the hut into Stomautonte pelleenari 60 18752.

H.K. the jungle, where she and her coma Tague 1,

Indo-Chinas (Frot)..............§36§ bug,

Do (181) panions were at last trapped, will go down as a memorable case, in Shell Transporte „105/ Lum. the history of Punjab crime. .

For five years the gang had in Kalan Mining Aantin. ........W. nom. dulged in an orgy of lawlessness, and during the last month or so several murders and lootings of Bim. Keparados de 145 bay. villages have been ascribed to them. hayan idealla, Si 4A US The girl travelled with the gang Man...... as the lover of one of the leaders. & K. Wharis

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In America there are professor ships of salesmanship, which means the art of making people buy what they do not want. The psychology of the human ape is being studied there with every scientific refine

ment.

When I was in America at least half-a-dozen cameras were levelled at me at every railway-station, I must add that the operators were the time-honoured excuse of "I faut vivre" Still, the thing is a nuisance. There are still some who agres with our great lexicographer, who in his best Johnsonese remark ed: Sir, among the anfractuosi ties of the human mind I know not if it may not be one that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture." I fancy that if Dr. Johnson were, among us now threatened the he would have

formidable camera-hend with cudgel, as the O'Gorman Mahon is said to have once intimidated a Punch" artist whom he found sketching him in the House of Commons: Sir, if that appears, I'll break every bone in your body 17

"

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The American Way. The same art is applied to politics. Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian prophet and mystic, was naturally horrified by what he aw in America. Democracy "makes a deliberate study of the

The Death Sentence. dark patches of the human intel-

I feel much more seriously about lect, wherewith to help itself to create an atmosphere of delusion the horrible cruelty which this graving inflicts upon through hints, gestures, yells, and diseased startling grimaces, for the purpose criminals and their families. of stupefying the popular mind. am no sentimentalist about capital The State has the Unce, when I VELLS in punishinent. Chicago, I saw everywhere on the right to remove undesirable citi town walls one single name, blazon-zens, but it has no right to ed in big letters in an endless humiliate them unsessarily. The round of repetition, like the whirl-attitude of the public on these oc wind monotony of a dervish dance casions is to me absolutely revolt- that dazes one's mind into vacuity. ing. Murder trials ought to be re- Evidently the name belonged to ported with decent reticence, re some candidate for political aleemembering the dreadful position tion. But what an insult to the of the accused; and everyone who people, who are supposed to repre- is condemned to death ought to be sent the supreme power in their allowed to carry out the sentence government, openly to them the upon himself, and to die, poor fel spell. of bypnotism in place of low, like gentleman. As things reason, as the medicine man does are, I do not think we have any right to claim to be more humane in the heart of Africa."

No privacy is sacred to the ape than the ancient Romans, who en- unfortunats mind. The democratic newspaper joyed seeingTM in full of gossip about individuals criminal mauled by wild beasts in At least, they did not -details which could have no in- the arena. test whatever for any educated per- regale themselves by learning the son, and often of a kind which any name of the victim and the chr- person of refinement must dislike cumstances of his family. extremely, when he or his family One who, like myself, has been, is the victim: There are ghouls in to some extent, dragged info the society who listen to private con- limelight (not as a criminal, for versations, even in clubs, and send tunately) must examine himself them at once to the newspapers whether he would prefer to be From time to time a book of re wholly ignored by the popular miniscences appears which is full Press and criticised only by his of violations of privacy and brother-scholars and men of letters breaches of confidence. The dis-the only people whose opinion I

care twopence about. tressing thing about these books is that they are sometimes written by men and women who ought to have some self-respect and sense of

honour.

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Betrayed By Informar. The story of the trailing of the gang, with the aid of native track ers, is told by Mr. Prance, super- intendent of police, well known in the Pubjab in the arrest of many desperate criminals.

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L gang was given away by an in- HK. Land o former, who receives a square of ganga Lanus land for the part he played. He Humphreys kita... reported the whereabouts of the BK Kesities encampment where the girl and two | Hik. Tramwaja of the leaders had settled them Peak Trams (id)

brun selves in Changa Manga Forest. A force of armed police was immed-Star Forries "....................3544 nam intely summoned from Labore and has Laghis (ulazers $129. arrangements made for following the trail.

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Native trackers used their know. ledge of woodcraft to enable them to know, from broken twigs and hoofmarka, the exact time when the dacoits had last passed with their horses to the river bank, and discovered also the number of the gang they might expect to find in the camp. The party, which "was | accompanied by three European police officers, crept through the

ana, (www).....155 buy, & sa, Jungle until they reached what were

F.K. Rojes (old) mm...ēd bay. evidently the outpost of the camp,

Peering through the thick bushes, Liv (40W)-Hő Bius -- they saw three figures in the rough United Aabeason ... 10 nom. Suddenly one of Dairy Farm5 untidy camp. them moved, and, throwing his rifle to his shoulder, fred at the police. Watsoni The police reply was decisive, and Der A Winge the party rushed into camp to find is Crawloris....... two of the figures on the ground actos.........ZU nom. and another fecing for his life Birdy nom,

Wm. Fowalia..... • bay. through the jungle. The leader,=

i.n. Amuseminate · vermir. 90, saka 19 Kundan Singh, a notorious murder K. Constructions al sol. er, was dead, and the ather figures'que, Indus. G. Bom...63% buy. lay with a bullet wound in the HK. Goyt. Loans % prom. num.

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Decked With Stolen Gems,

It was not until the party had approached that the discovery was made that the wounded figure was a young and pretty girl, loaded with stolen jewellery and accustomed apparently to the wandering life led by the other members of the gang. Efforts were made to stem the flow of blood from the wound, but when transferred to hospital the girl died, The third member of the gang es- caped.

Kundan Singh is said to have forcibly abducted the girl, who afterwards consented to throw in her lot with the criminals.

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Educated girls are too casual," They have too much ides of their

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SERVICE TO. READERS. They say "Right O" instead of come able seamen, and later, if they qualify by winning various competitions, they will be taught

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRE88, ID, and the HỌNG In "Patricia," which ran at His how to steer and handle the saila. read on June 8th by Mise L. Bavill, A competent woman secretary After the Friend Ship has left Majesty's Theatre in 1914, ahe KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through of Lincoln High School, at the was worth any two men. MTower Bridge she will sail along came, into some prominence through their London Office, at 31, EXIDE LANA, meeting of the Association of Head

Marriage and the fact that par- the south coast, calling at various dispute with Ms. Leslie Henson, Les Brainz EG. 4, are prepared to give Subscribers and Visitors advice mistressce Conference, held stente did not take their girle trati resorts, where she may be recognis who was concerned in the produc

facilities, suitable Parliament Hill Council School,ness life seriously and would, oped readily by the initials on her tion. Mr. Henson requested heregarding accommodation

motoring London, N.W.

the slightest provocation, get them flag a September he will strike not to indulge in private jokes Whereas higher education was ad to stay at home and nurse a sick north, and by October she will during the performance, and Mics, when at home, they will call or the greatest importance, said Miss relative, were other points rassed again rest by the Tower Bridge at Debenham then gave up her part talphons to the above addisks, they will the Distinguished Visitors Mr. Ridley is a member of a receive the utmost resistance and the Savill, it sometimes made boys and against the employment of girls.

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Shanty singing will be a merry He was educated at Harrow and feat of enquiry will be placed at their

disposal feature of the ship's programme.Oxford and is 43. quoted were these:

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