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YACHTING.

FIFTH CHAMPIONSHIP RACE,

The fifth Championship 'race of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club "was held on Saturday afternoon. over .course of si miles, eighteen shells competing-five in the handi- cap-cliss_kus_iz-the-One-Design

THE MARCONI COMPANY.

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RUGBY, Dec. 14th...

An extraordinary general meet

THE HONG KONG DALY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1928.

"THE WELL OF TREES OF REMEMBRANCE. POLAND "GUILLOTINES "

LONELINESS.”

MAGISTRATE'S DECISION.

TO BE BURNED.

International Marine Communica-liness, the

novel

PLANS FOR BEAUTIFYING

BRITISH ROADS.

FOREIGN GOODS.

· STUDENTS DEMOLISH "OLD ENGLAND."

"WARSAW.

for the formal opening of the cam-windows reading "A goods sold. paign, which began a day or two here are made in Poland." ago with an enormous gathering on It is somewhat of a paradox the Saze Place parade grounds-in that, while Poliab statesmen and the centre of Warsaw-to witness economists-heartily supported by the "execution" of importers and Mr. Charles S. Dewey, the Ameri the wares they handle. A mock can Financial Adviser to the Polish The planting of roadside trees

guillotine was erected in the centre Government-lay great stress on and avenues in remembranes" is

of the square. and with great the claim that Poland's consider. a form of memorial encouraged by the Roads Beautifying Association,

A newly formed organisation solemnity the executioner and his able excess of imports aver exports belpers proceeded to cut to pieces denotes, in the first place a healthy Two hundred and forty-seven which Colonel Wilfrid Ashley, has been called the "Polish League ethgies of importers as well as vari- building up of the country's econ- Minister of Transport, is President for Economic Self-suficiency." has ous and sundry "lines" that are omic structure, and, secondly, that and Gael Class, and eight in thing in London of the Marconi copies of "The Well of Lone The Association has appointed begun a rigorous campaign for dis- | now being sold in Poland to the foreigners, who are, of cour

which Mr. Roads of Remembrance Committer couraging with the aid of physical supposed detriment of native indus financing the unfavourable trade tion Company made alterations in James Douglas condemned in the to undertake the necessary arrange-violence if necessary-the sale of tries. Boots and shoes from Great balance, are showing the utmost the Articles of Association provid Sunday Express, will be flung-in-|

ments for this work.

imported goods and encouraging Britain, ladies' garments and cos confidence in the political and ing-that-at-no-time-should-more-

Any family desiring to per the public to buy home-made pro-metics from France, glassware economic stability of Poland, ir to the furnace at Scotland-yard... than 25 per cent. of the issued

petuate by tree planting the memory ducts. The campaign was opened from Czecho-Slovakia, kitchen uten-responsible students at the same shares of the Company be in the The order for the destruction was a relative has been asked to come by a mob of Warsaw students de sis from Germany, food products time are being incited to acts of from the United States, and violence and panto ime-with the. hands or under the control of per- signed by Sir Chartres Biron, the municate with the bon, secretary molishing a

chief

Assortment miscellaneous sons, nat of British nationality.

magistrate at Bow-street 47, Victoria-street, S.W.1.

of object of stopping the importation Gifts are invited of trees (espe- enterprising trader had named a

Old England!!

other articles This emporium,

were chopped to of foreign merchandise. street of the capital, was about to loud applause from the assembled Poles began seriously to consider ways and means for the correction be opened as a high-clses gentle multitude. The temper of the de-

such that all the of the trade balance, but it is a men's store for the sale of British monstrators is

prudent storekeepers in town-most problem that calls for intelligent secured for the of them being Jews-are now probeonomic statesmanship, and no League a good measure of publicity minently displaying signs in their one to be left to the impulses of

mob demonstrators.

Hayward Heys class. The results were as follows:--

Handicap Class. [Start 9 pm,}

TIME. Finishing Corrected

4.15.02 4.00.561

La Linda (3rd)

Dorothea (1s:) Balla (2nd)

.

4.10,40 -1.10.40

4.35.14

Collern (4th)

4.17.14

Chuna (5th)

4.9.5I

4.11.35 -1.19.374 4.20.124

One Design and Gaels.

[Start 30 p.m.]

Daphne (1st)

Jain (2nd)

Theri (3rd) AZA (4th)

TIME. Finishing Corrected

4.20,45 1.26.45 4.44.45 4.39.56 4.46241429,18) 4.-13.2 4.43.99 Pierrette (ath). "4.48.20 4.44.414

Heyward Heys."," [Start 233 p.m.]

TIME.

Finishing Corrected

4,49.23, 4.49.20 MALIS $1.18 4.52.01 4.32.01

Erphyr (4th) 4.58.13

Burdur (150)

Tinajum (2nd) ·

Wings (3rd)

4.32.95

Why Wonder?

(5th).4.54.0

43102

Speedwell (th)

4.54.31

1.34.34.

Gola (7th).

5.02.15

4.56,225

Adorne (th)

**14,58,30. 456.30

YESTERDAY'S RACE,

new store which an

The amended Articles also pro- Police Court, and was handed to cially small fowering trees), shrubs, which is on the main shopping pieces to the accompaniment of It is no doubt high time that the

vide that no person other than a British subject should be qualified to hold office as a Director of the Company, provided always that this prohibition should not apply to the present Directors.

Senator Marconi, presiding, said it would be unfortunate if the im- pression got abroad that their Com pany was not now and had not always been under British, control.

Mr. Kellaway, Managing Direc tor, said the Board had not been inspired by any nendemic opposi tion to the employment of foreign capital. They would always be gind to see foreigners interesting themselves in the fortunes of the Company

THE BRITISH RAJ.

RESISTANCE TO HINDU -

OLIGARCHY.

The course for yesterday's race w right round the gland landmphasised to-day, at a big con-

wu front side). The star was ut 10. alm. and the first, it back I which passed the finish Tak post 15 seconds after 5 p.m. She was easily the winner her correct- d time being 4.34.20 She was half in hour ahead of Le Cigale which arrived at 5.29.35 that being also

her corrected time. Curlers, was srved on corrected time and Queen Per close third. Wanderer was

the lame duck lagging all the way as the song puts it, but Imogen failed to finish.

The results were:- Course Hong Kong Island (P}

Agurt Fa Cigale isis Mortemun Читать Все

Feathers

Coquette"

Imogen

Wanderer

Guricio Typhoon Tata

TIME Finishing Corrected

7.03.05 6.52.36 5.59.33 5,20.33

6.41,08 5.32.04 '5.43.52 44240 5.00.15 4.35.90 5,49,41 1.59, 21. 3.34.21

4.53.57 D.N.F. 7.45.51 7.11.00 3.45.13 4.4.19 6.11.10 5.98.50 8.19.20

MORE TUBES. FOR LONDON.

TRAFFIC POOL PLAN EXPLAINED.

LESS STREET CHAOS. An official of the London Under- ground group explained to a Press the representative last month scheme by which it is hoped to iring the greater part of London's senger erailie under a single

RAAgement.

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(THROUGH LETTER'S AGENCY.]

CALCUTTA, Dec. 14th. British interests in India Were

Eerence comprising the Council of the European Association. and delegates from all Provinces in India, when it was made clear that the British residents would resist a Hindu oligarchy to the fuli.

At the opening of the Conference it. was at once decided to send a message of sympathy to the Queen. expressing earnest wishes for the King's, complete recovery,

The Council's recent memoran- dum to the Simon Commission was discussed and fully endorsed in a lengthy resolution by the Confer

ence.

Mr. C. B. Chartser, who presid ed, said:

It is useless for wild men to aim at this time at the immediate establishment of a Hindu oligar thy, to talk loudly of their in- berent rights and to completely ignore the British connection.

We British residents in India have inherent rights also, and we are determined that any scheme of responsible Government shall re- cognise those rights."

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John

Chief Detective Inspector Prothero and Detective Inspector and other plants, seats for way Burmby, who seized the books after facers, wayside strips of land they had been impounded by the for planting, drinking fountains, trophy milestones, and statuary for Customs authorities at Dover.

the open-air museum or art gal- The sum of two guineas, it is lery of the wayside." stated, will cover the cost of provid ing a Remembrance Tree with suitable inscription. The hon. treasurer in Mrs. M. I. Illingworth.

Hundreds of people flocked to

the court to hear the magistrate give his judgment. Women filled the public enclosure, and so dense was the crowd that scores of people had to be turned away..

Miss Radelyffe-Hall, the writer of the novel, sat at the solicitors table. She wore a tiny sprig of white heather at the side of her sombrero,

Sir Archibald Bodkin," Director of Public Prosecutions, sat behind the crowded counsel seat, and closely followed the magistrate's summing-up and decision..

Sir Chartres Biron addressed the

I can imagine a book on this subject. presenting the whole mat- ter As 4 tragedy--the tragedy being that there may be people so afflicted who try their best to fight against this horrible vice, and find themselves in perit in that direc tion, or unable to resist its ten- dencies that result in moral and

physical degradation. I Can imagine dealing with the subject on those terms forming the subject. of a novel which might have a strong moral influence,

"A Tragedy."

court for nearly an hour: He spoke in quiet conversational toues, dealing with all the points raised by the counsel who repre sented Messrs. Jonathan Cape, Ltd.. the publishers, and Mr. Leonard Hill, the representative of the Pegasus Press of Paris. Both Lam told by Mr. Melville that were summoned to show cause why the book is presented as a tragedy. the copies of the novel should not.But the tragedy is presented here be destroyed on the ground that as that of people who indulge in these vices and who are not tolerat ed by decent people not received in society, but catracised.

the book was obscene,

Author's Protest. Towards the end of the case Miss Radelyffe-Hall, who had been show ing signs of uneasiness, broke the orderliness of the proceedings by a dramatic protest. Sir Chartres had just finished dealing, with an incident described in the book when the novelist shouted:-·

Shame: It is not correct, I am the author of this book, and I protest. I cannot have my book misinterpreted like this!" The magistrate, without raising his eyes, said: "I shall have you removed if you interrupt." He re pested his stern warning, and Miss Radclyffe-Hall remained silent for the rest of the proceedings.

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Chartres Biron, besides directing that the copies of the book should be destroyed, ordered the defendants to pay the costs of the proceedings.

The whole note of the book in a passionate and almost hysterical plea for the toleration and recog nition of these people, and that their practices should be tolerated and recognised in decent society.

It is a book of some 500 pages dealing solely or in the main with unnatural, offences.

"There is not a single word from beginning to end which sugges that any one with these tendencies

is in the least blameworthy, or that they should be resisted.

Every one of the characters who indulge in these vices are presented" forward for our admiration, and -to-us-as-attractive people and put those who object to these vices are sacered at as prejudiced, foolish, and cruel

A Serious Matter.

What is a much more serious matter, the conduct of these women is described in the most alluring: terms

Miss Radclyffe-Hall left the court in a гаде. She clenched her fingers excitedly when her friends surrounded her," and protested It is actually put forward. that DISTRESS AMONG BRITISH vehemently against references in this indulgence improves thei

the magistrate's address.

mental balance and capacity."

MINERS.

NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO

ASSIST.

(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY,]

LONDON, Dec. 14th..

The plight of British miners, og whose behalf national appeal was issued o few days back is giving cause for still deeper con- errn, and the Premier, Mr. Bald wia, has to-day addressed a letter to the, Lord Lieutenants of all Counties, appealing for assistance in raising additional help for the relief of the continued distress in

the coalfields.

Government has appointed an or ganising secretary to undertake co-ordination of the various relief

Mr. Baldwin mentions that the

The scheme, he claimed, would

Eliminate wasteful enmpeti-agencies,

sion, and

duced.

The Lord Mayors' Fund, the Provide the public with vastly original appeal, was practically improved travelling facilities.

exhausted at the end of November, There is no intention of scrap.

The Lord Mayor of London, asked ning tubes, tramways, omni- all the chief citizens of cities and uses, but where tramears and municipalities through England omaibuses are in wasteful com- and Wales to hold public meetinga petition their numbers will be re-and otherwise to enlist support in the establishment of organisations A large extension of the tube for the collection of contributions system, to relieve street congestion and the reception of gifts of and meet the needs of the outer clothing, while a meeting of the suburbs, is contemplated.

Lord Mayors and Mayors of Eng- The Underground group and the land was held in London London County Council are seekdays ago for a discussion of the ing parliamentary authority in problem. the coming session to proceed with the scheme, it was stated, and the Bills promoted by the two bodies will, it is confidently hoped, re- ceive the Royal Assent before the end of the session.

Details Of The Scheme. "We shall then be able." It was added, to discuss details of the acherie "and begin to get down to the work of reconstruction,

Tube extensions planned by the Underground at present are:

(a) Continuation of Piccadilly Railway from Finsbury Park to Southgate, with stations at Turn- pike-lane (Hornsey), Wood Green, and Bowes Park. Congestion at Finsbury Park would thus be greatly relieved.

(h) Extension of the saine line from Hammersmith to Northfields. This would be a boon to passengers now using the western extension of the District Railway."

County Assistance..

This is not the end," she said. Let all who love justice bear this in mind. It was simply shocking the way passages in my book were, misinterpreted.

Women's War Work.

.

"I take particular exception to the magistrate's reference to the war work done by British women. He has held them up to opprobrium in a public court.

portion of my book which deals "I defy anybody to read that with the war work done by women and find anything but the highest and most reverent respect for the moral character of those women the finest, most courageous, most Bacrificing

above all, the

purest

and,

Sir Chartres, in his judgment, said the only question for decision was

whether the book was an obscene libel. Mr. Norman Birkett, for the defence, had tried to make a subtle distinction between what he called inverts and perverts.

Sir Chartres quoted a passage describing the friendship between the heroine, who was presented as a very fine character, and a married woman whom she ultimately per- suaded to indulge in these practices, and added: "And in view of that I am naked to say this book is nati

defence of these practices."

Sir Chartres said it was very significant in view of that appen to him that the girl was described as expressing her approval of these practices. When the mother spoke to her about this siùr on her life she replied, I am not ashamed of it. There is no shame in me."

Sir Chartres said there was a sug- gestion in the book that a number of women of position and character who were at the front, engaged in ambulance work, were addicted to these practices,

It was at this point that Miss Radclyffe Hall protested.

Sir Chartres then quoted further passages. One was what be describ "I confess," said Sir Chartres, ed as the life of these two people "that after reading the book I was living in filthy ain." Another surprised at this contention being which seemed to have been overlook. put forward, and I was not sur- prised when, after the adjourn mother was denounced as a cruel, ed by the defence, was that the ment, Mr. Birkett announced he pitiless woman when she would not was not in a position to contend allow Stephen to bring the girl she any further that this book did not had debauched into her household. relate. "to unnatural offences in

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every sense of these worde. fow

Melville," sid Sir Chartres, urged that the subject was dealt with with restraint, and there was nothing in the book, which tended to the glorification of certain prae- tices.

"Mr. Birkett, however, with Mr.

Mr. Baldwin now suggests that the Lord Lieutenants might co operate in the national appeal de- cided

by inaugurating County organisations to further the objects of the Lord Mayor's Fund.

upon

ANTI-AMERICAN FEELING".

IN ARGENTINE.

NICARAGUA PROTEST

STAGED.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

The dictionary describes the word obscene." said the magistrate, ax offensive to chastity, delicacy, or decency... or offensive to be moral senses as to excite lustful

развода.

It was not without significance that the defendants had not gone into the box. Mr. Jonathan Cape and the gentlemen representing. the Pegasus Pres bad maintained & discreet silence.

I

agree that the book has some literary merits, continued Sir Chartres, but the very fact that

There was another description of a menage in Paris kept by a French woman who was presented to the public as the leading perverted wo man in Paris. She was described." and all the people who frequent- ed the menage were described, although they had this vice, in terms of considerable calógy,

"Hysterical. Passages.". The book concluded with singular and hysterical pasanges in which the Deity was mentioned quite frequent ly. The concluding passage asked that He should acknowledge us before the whole world and give us also the right of our existence."

I confess," said Sir Chartres, the way in which the Deity is introduced seems to be singularly. inappropriate and disgusting.

being the terms of the book," said Sir Chartres, "I have

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 14th.

it is well written can be no answer be hesitation whatever in saying it The pronounced anti-American these proceedings, because other is an obscene libel; it would tend feeling in Argentina since the in-wise we should be in the preposto corrupt those into whose Lands terous position, that the most. it should fall, and its publication tervention of the United States in

is an offence against public decency. Nicaragua fared up to-day when obscene books would be free from

group of General Sandino's stricture. It must appear to every and I shall order it to be destroy.

one of intelligence that the better sympathisers profiting by Mr. Hoover's presence paraded the an obscene book is written the streets with provocatively inscribed greater the public. to whom it is

likely to appeal

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Parliamentary powers for these extensions will be sought as soon as the traffic pool is established. Land for the Piccadilly extensions banners.

Construction has been bought"

Mounted police eventually charg would follow as soon as possible, ed the demonstrators and several

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The more palatable the poison, the more insidious.

ed."

"An Appeal? Messre. Rubinstein, Nash & Co... sclicitors for Miss Radclyffe-Hall, state that the question of an appeal to quarter sessions is under con sideration

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