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There was a good deal of criticism of modern English speech when the City of London Vacation Course in Education was resumed at Holborn "HE'S ADMITTED WHO DONE E As Bak. 827 bus We all know that nëtional in- atitution the Manchester GuarRestaurant on July 30th. For in dian" that great__pillar of pari-j stance.Miss Marjorie Gubban, hend fion and the older school of of the Polytechnic School of Speech Liberalism. It kurt, and its indignation is un-Training, said that life in, our time bounded" if a Communist ruque iz was getting so appalling-the noise imprisoned

4 dealt with"

was so tremendous-that our voices Bearing all these little prejudices in maine the follmeing article re- were getting tuned-in to ugliness. printed from its columns may be We wanted well-phrased, easy,

The amysing and instructier.

fluent speech. "Wherever you go "Manchester Guardian” feels the chains more than the Japanese.. 2-days," she atlied, you find Jelf withing that people would really learn where to put their

ne

Koss, July 11th. Of the thousand men arrested voices."

last March some hundreds are stili

under "examination, and it has been announced that their triat will take place in various cities throughout the Empire at a comparatively early date How far they were

"

It was left to Mr. P. B. Shewan to condemn the droning tone of voice, which, he said, was so com- mon among clergymen. For them to speak in this tone of voice" was absolute nonsense, and it was time

A shouting, gesticulating con demned murderer LA earried bodily out of the dock of the Court of Criminal Appeal on July 30th, H.K Steamboats waving a sheaf of notes in his hand and crying out over, his shoulder that another man had confessed to the crime for which he is to be executed.

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Explorations of its customary tranquillity by shanga Loans T. 34 nom. this remarkable scene at the close Baube ..................... of the hearing of the appeals of the Transh Miner three men who were sentenced to K&

HK & K Wharta.. "death at Lewes Assizes for the HW. Docks murder at Brighton of Friend Cams Providents Ernest Smith.

All three convicted murderers...

Shangar Dooks the fateful decision which the Lord warders. listening in suspense for Chief Justice postponed to the end of his long and carefully-prepared judgment.

actually engaged in a political con- they avoided these stupidities that stood in a row, hemmed in by Bwo Lotion artnet

spiracy inspired by Soviet Russia is not at all clear, but the Govern- ment protested to Russia against the violation of its pledge regard- ing propaganda, and received the usual reply. The pledge may be absurd, but the Russian justifica tion is worse. It is a repetition of the statement that the Third In- ternational is entirely separate from the Soviet Government, that members of the Third International

are

not debarred from holding official position, and that some official may, for ali the Govern ment knows, be a member of the Third International. In short, the Soviet Government attempts to dis- own the acts of its own officiais. Yet nothing is said of any strain in the relations with the Embassy, and an apology was offered and accepted when "some rash patribt. made an explosion in the Embassy compound.

With the arrests of last March there began a campaign against au freedom of thought. When, a

couple of years ago, the political

it

eocieties in the middle schools and high schools throughout the country were suppressed it was declared that so far as the universities went the young men belonging to them could study whatever they pleased long as was study and But societies for nothing more. eLudy were prohibited, and in all educational establishments below university status political studies were not to be permitted. By this means it was apparently hoped to preserve iatact til brains were less impressionable the mythical history taught in the primary schools

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Memoriam," said:

Ob, for the touch of a vurnished

band And the sound of a voice that is

steel.

Dialect,

Professor Dariel Jones, University consistencies of English pronuncia- of London, who referred to the in- tion, had something interesting to sny on dialect. Since we had no that any local dialect was as good standard pronunciation, it followed

as another: "Those people," be added, "who dislike Cockney or Northern dialect may give many

reasons

actually it is due to an association for their dislikes, but

of ideas and they dislike it simply because they do not like the people who use those dialects."

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Referring to broadcasting a3 ♫ medium of education in pronuncia- tion, Pref. Jance said that people all over the country were becoming accustomed to the pronunciation they heard on the wireless, and it was quite a possibility that broad-, struggling wildly, from the Der & Wings

Lane Crawfords.. casting might of itself, without the

Just before he disappeared behind Mackincoats..... aid of teachers, have the effect of producing a standard pronuncia the green curtains, which shut off Sincerca

the stops that lead down to the tion. Me

cells, Donovan turned his head round to Lord Hewart and sobbed out: "He's admitted who done it, zir!"

It was announced that the winner of the Bush Scholarship, value £300, provided by Mr. Irving T. Bush, to enable a teacher from the British Isles to visit America for the

purpose

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The movement for the suppres sion of thought does not stop at introducing the death penalty for Fabians and other sceptics of the virtues of monarchy. "It includes a large allotment," running into some millions of yen, for the creation of new tepionage organisation, which is to have branches abroad even in London. The War Office is also budgeting for a very modest little allotment of 140,000 yen for the establishment of gendarmerie offices in every town charged with the special duty of preventing the infection of the army with danger. ous thought.

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Donovan, a swarthy thirty-one, with a face like a prize- fighter's, had attempted to make a speech from the dock just before the sentences of death were pass- ed at Lewes Assizes. His counsel. argued at the appeal that he ought to have been heard, but the judges pointed out that nothing he could have said would have affected the sentence.

to

the

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But with the arrests of laat March there began an intensive movement for ridding the univer- sities of dangerous thought. Radi- cal professors had mostly been driven out already, but they made a clean sweep of the rest, and the universities have all undertaken to receive no young man who, when at school or college, belonged to any circle for the study of thought" or showed other signs of interest in the proletariat.....

Death For Republicans. Along with all this there has The most ominous feature of all The three murderers presented, a been an important amendment of this is, that there is not a word of remarkable. study in criminal phy the Peace Preservation Law, where protest. It is put forward with the siognomy. Donovan leaned forward by it has been made punishable by hint that it is necessary for the with knitted brows and "frequent protection of the Sovereign, and, death to promote or to join any

gestures of annoyed disagreement society ne poject of whien is a of course, nobody can say that the to listen to Lord, Hewart's judg- change in the form of the State. Sovereign should not be protected.ment. Weaver, an undersized youth This, of course, means that it is a In this connection it is curious to. with the weak chin and receding capital offence, to advocate repub-note that in a semi-official publica forehead of a degenerate, stood licanism. It is well over twenty

English regarding the staring in space, and Taylor, & years ago that Mr. Ozaki Yukio, coronation next Movember, the gawky youth, with a lock of his criticizing Japan's modern statement occurs that at the time bright red hair falling over his nose,THE HONG KONG

PRESS, LTD., and the HONG mon-worship, said, "If Japan were of the coronation of the Taisho had his mouth wide open and a a repubne, ner biggest milionaire Tenno in 1915 the Emperor walked vacant expression on his unintel- KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through thair London Office, at 21, BxE LASE, would be presideat Tremendous in procession from the Imperial ligent face, indignation was expressed, but we Palace in Kyoto to the Nijo Palace, All three are known to the Brigh-FLEET STRIEL, KO. 4., are prepared to have travelled a long way on the which gave mizzy an opportunity of ton police to belong to a local black-give Subscribers and Vintora, advice sccommodaties available, path of suppression of speech zince seeing him in his ceremonial robes, mailing gang, who operate on the regarding

sen front and on the downs, and centres, etc.

motoring facilities, suitable shopping then, and even Mr. Ozaki would bus that, though the distance was hardly make such a remark to-day. | short, spectators оп the forth- who levy toll on elderly married If, when at home, they will call or In fact no Japanese 'editor would coming occasion must perforce

telephone to the above address, they will dare to write such a statement as be denied such an opportunity.

One of the most curious features receive the atmost assistance and the "The Japanese people have.so high

Certain it is that the young of the case was that Smith, a latest available information on all sub a sense of public duty and so Emperor is scidom scen nowadays retired busincas man, sixty-seven jects of enquiry will be placed at their strong an attachment to law and or even mentioned. The brief spell years of age, refused to give any dupcial: order that they would be as suc- of democratic familiarity that. fol assistance to the police while he cessful under a republican form of lowed the English visit, soon came was under medical treatment after government as under a monarchy." to an end, and he is now almost as he had been assaulted and robbed. The yery word is taboo. The least rarely seen as the 'monarchs of old It was because he developed septic hint is rank blasphemy. Even' iz time.

pneumonia and died, that the three the revised law the word "repub But that the new law. is neces men, who were alleged to have at- lie" or any such phrase as "aboli- sary for the protection of the tacked him, found themselves on- tion of the monarchy" is avoided.

Emperor is manifestly untrue. trial for their lives. Nevertheless, the introduction of High treason is a capital offence, "Mr. Smith appeared to be very the death penalty for all who be and anybody reasonably suspected reticent about the matter." 'com- lieve in republicanizam was not of conspiring against the Sover-mented Lord Howart. That is a popular. The Government did not eign's life is, in Japan as in other fact that would be explained it. care to risk bringing it before the monarchical countries, liable to what had been done had been done new Diet at its special session, but forfeit his own life. The new law with the aid of a woman as waited until it had adjourned, and is for suppressing the discussion of decay."

men,

then brought the measure in by even the possibility of another Donovan has served terms of im- means of an Urgent Imperial Orditorm-of-government than the one-prisonment-as-a-housebreaker and a nance. There was a debate in the now maintained in the Emperor's receiver, but charges of blackmail Privy Council, but dissatisfaction name by the ruling caste. The could not be framed against the men: which nobody dared utter openly terror is effectual. Nobody raises because of the difficulty of inducing sought relief in acid discussions as s voice of protest. But it cannot any of their victims to give evidence to the right and powers of the be supposed that if subversive in open court. Privy Council-which is, for no ver clear renson excentite con servatism, a very unpopular body,

(Continued on next Column).

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