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MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION.

A PACKED HOUSE.

G. B. SHAW'S MOST DIS. CUSSED PLAY.

The Theatre Royal was packed for the first presentation last night by the Macdona Players of Mrs. Warren's Profession." The play though written over 30 years ago does not date in the least, and is so excellent in construction that on that score alone the theatre-going public owes a debt to Mr. Charles

THE HONG KONG DAILY ROBOT BOOKMAKER THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

FOR BRITAIN.

A SCHOOLMASTER'S INVENTION

THE SYSTEM EXPLAINED.

an

PROPOSAL - AGAIN. DISMISSED.

FAVOURED BY FRANCE.

Paris, December 20th (U.P,):- Agitation for a trans-channel tun- nel, always a popular project in France, has begun again among those interested in Franco-British business and travel relations, im- Oxford mathepelled by the recent obstruction of cross channel communication by the storm.

It was announced on March 8th, says the London Times racing car respondent, that a Mr. R. M. Hamilton, main and some time mathe matical master at Malvern College, bad invented a Robot bookmaker.

There was no doubt that this machine, as Mr. Hamilton had then planned it, infringed some of the patents of the well-known Jalius Totaliantor which has been worked

world. I understand that Mr.

PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12th, 1929.

EVOLUTION AND

PRIEST'S 250 YEARS OLD PROPHECY. CIVILISATION.

SIR ARTHUR KEITH'S CURIOUS SPECULA-

TIONS.

GLANDS INFLUENCE ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.

PRESENT SOLENCE OF AVIA- TION FORECAST.

CHURCH NOTICES. CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL Hong Kona, January 19th, 1929, First Sunday after

Epiphany

Choral Enchariri at. 8 a.m. Children's Serrios at 10 am. Sunday School at Ponk School 10 am. Matina at 11 am he

Preacher The Dean. Evensong at 6 pm

Social Evening in Cathedral Hall after Evensong+

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Paris, October 24th (U.P.). Efforts are being made to pur chase from its owners in Spain a copy of a rare volume by a Spanish monk of the latter part of the 17th study of he possibility' of flying, is London (U.P.):-Civilization is ston of wings and violence of im- obstructing Nature's great scheme provided. It was 250 years ago FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

SOLENTIST. of evolutionary progress, accord that Antonio de la Pens wrote his (Branch of The Mother Church, Since 1903 whe Tossier de ing-to Sir Arthur Keith, eminent"El Ente Diluoidado," beautifully | Mottrau, a Frenchman, Props biologist, who recently delivered illustrated and illuminated by hand. of one sort or another have been the Huxley memorial address be a tunnel, almost a hundred projects

The majority of its chapters, submitted. The Channel Tunnel fore the Royal Anthropological

such little interest or so little un- Company, backed partly by British

derstood that few ever took the trouble to reach the portion which may be said to git to Spain the right to claim the title of the "Dis- severer of Modern Aviation."

Macdona who first got it released with success in many parts of the and partly by French capital, went i

for public production.

No play of B.S. has come in

Hamilton offered his improvements

on the Julius machine to the owners

BO

far as to start preliminary work at St. Margaret's, in 1878, but a committes of both houses of Par

for so much adverse comment with of that, machine, but the negotin Hament disapproved of the tunnel

romance.

Mrs.

reference to the theme and his about à not too pleasant subject manner of presenting it. The truth

has been treated without any of the glamour of Warren, Sir George' Crofts, Young Frank Gardiner are as known the world over to-day as toey were when Shaw drew them. Their problems and Vivie's, Mes, Warren's daughter. are the problems which people ought to face, and it is only by facing them without bypocrisy. as Shaw does, that they can be made

less great.

Duplessis firm, who are also the ton then worked for a time with the

owners of an electrically worked tatalisator. but that connection came to an end some time ago. Since then Mr. Hamilton has so changed his machine that he claims than the patents of the Julius machine and the Duplessis machine are no longer infringed. Hia new machias is now being constructed at the Amplion works at Slough and

all work to be stopped.

Society.

Sir Arthur declared that in the later stages of man's evolution constant strife had been going on between his reason and his inherit

ed instincts. Man's body and Submarine Railway Company, also co-operate in evolving the human At about the same time the French brain were intended, he feals, to

sued a concession which called for race, but civilization, which he supported by s mixed capital, où-

minimum expenditure of 2,000,000 characterized as the greatest inven- This company took 3,000tion of man's brain,—is hindering samples of sand from the bottom of this development. the sen and 7,000 soundings..

francs.

The war halted all enterprise to- wards a more adequate link between England and the continent but in mediately before Baron E. R is already in a sufficiently advanced anger, as president of the state of manufacture to show that the claims that he makes for it have Channel Tunnel Company, admit- ted that all plans were at a stand- passed beyond the theoretical stage still because of the opposition of the to the practical stage.

Admiralty R. D. Heckels, secre- Lary of the company, as the same time characterized these objections. no absurd."

Mr. Heckels pointed out that the project had been proposed more than a quarter of a century ago and that the greatest statesmen on both sides of the Channel had favoured

What It Will Do.

Mrs. Warren's Profession" has possibly gained as a play through persecution. Every actor who takes a part in it on any stage must feel that he or she has an unusual op-- It is not possible for me to des- portunity, and in consequence theycribe in detail how this machine are spurred to give their very best works-pone but a highly trained and then a bit over.

engineer could do that but it can Mrs. Warren's not fail to interest all people inter It is, of course, play, she has far more than any ested in racing and betting to know other character to do, not exceptist what this machine will be able ing her daughter Vivie. From the to do. The most modern totalisator, moment she entered Miss Jonn the Julius, shows on A board cr Hopegood struck the true ante boards the number of tickete taken Although on reading the play one on any horse during the betting on might picture Mrs. Warren as an a race, and it also shows the total older woman. Miss Hopegood swept amount of tickets taken on all the this imaginary person asitle and be horses in the race of which betting came absolutely Mrs. Warren, na is taking place. Mr. Hamilton's "impression which she crystalised in machine goes farther, and shows the the extraordinarily pathetic finale odds at which each horse is stand to the second scene when she makes ing at any moment in the betting. her apologia,

It can alse, if necessary, show the totals on each horse and on all the horses just as does the Julius machine.

a tummel.

Fe have convincing evidence that the growth of the body and the differentiation of its racial traits are controlled, to a greater

or

however, dealt with subjects of

There is so close as analogy bel

French group interested in the sub- tween the Spanish monk's theories and the practice of to-day that the ject is said to have offered 75,000 franes for the only copy of the

volume,

Father de la Pena began with a study of specific gravities and the action of solids in various liquids. This brought him to the ides of a man and motor propelled machine which would ay through the air..

He decided that the solid body.!

possess lesser extent, by a material | should

three

things-a in certain fixed gravity of the body, exten- mechanism centred

century in which a remarkable glands of internal secretion," ex-pulsion so that the intensity of the plained Sir Arthur.

weight would be proportional to the extension, or spread, of its Put this into modera wings." aerodrome terms and Father de la Pena's foresightedness must be ad. mitted as remarkable.

He showed that the differentia- tions in race which result through political barriers are often con- trary to the differences Nature seems to have planned. In order to understand and, if possible, re- move the racial differences which

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DEAN INGE AND U.S. SENATOR.

PROVOCATIVE AND BELLI GERENT SENTIMENTS."

SHYLOCK'S TEETH RE- FERENCE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL, BTEAM NAVIGATION COM SAK KIDDERPORE."

ARRITIS HONG KONG OF- 10TH JANUARY, 1929,

From BOMBAY, COLOMBO ARD

STRAITS.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above- named. Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com plased at twats xus in the Hong Kong

Godowne at Kowloon, where each Benrgument will be sorted out Mark

by Mark and Delivery can Le Goods are landed.

obtained, as

This Vessel brings_on_Cargo__from Persian Gulf ex BIS.N, and B. & P.S.N...

Steamers,

Optional Goods will be landed here unles

Instructions have been given to the contrary 6 hours before arrival of the Steamer

Goods not cleared within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject in Rent

*No Fire Insurance will be effected by ue in any case whatever,

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowas for examination by the Can

the Company's Surveyors, GODDARD

& Dorolas at 10 am, Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.

CHE

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before January, 1929, or they will

30th not be

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Agenta Hong Kong, 10th Jan, 1839. [7925.

HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

Washington, December 18th :- THE Steamship

John Hays Hammond, the famous bave resulted from unnatural bar-machine must be that of a bird." the Senate by Senator Gillett, of Deng landed and placed at their risk

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riera and which Sir Arthur con-

An attack

EMIL KIRDORT" on Dean Inge and Form Described,

British naval superiority was the baring arrived, Consignees of Cargo are The form of the body of the feature of a remarkable speech in hereby notified that their Goods are he continued, Construct a small Massachusetts, on the "Big Navy in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Company's Godowns at bout of wood in the shape of an Bill. eagle's body, and then construct The Senate decided to defer dis Fowloon, where Delivery can on, but let their length be in propor.until the vote had been taken on Notal Cargo will be landed, unleas the wings of a very light material,cussion on all pending legislation obtained as the Goods are landed.

has been given prior to Steamer's

siders are fruitful causes of armed conflict, one must understand the action of these hidden glands.

science has always been

Unfortunately, he went

ped in its study of the mechanism of growth control,the basic factor forced to rely on cases caused by in racial differentiation, by being accident or disease.

Science has, however, he said, discovered that the pituitary gland is one of the most powerful factors. In the disorder known as Acrome galy, the pituitary gland has al- an irregular growth. Victims of this disease become so changed phy often do not recognize them.

be

Goods have left the Godowns, and 'ali

American enginery interviewed in Paris in 1913 expressed the opinion thas the tunnel was entirely feasible from the engineering point of view, and an enterprise of magnificent promise from the economic. added that objections from the strategic point of view were ground less because a few tons of date could blow the tube to crumbs and promptly terminate danger of in vasion by that route.

The first practical tunnel pro pesal was submitted by J. A. Thome de Gamond. He had been working upon a tranechannel link for over pound on that twenty years" In 1887 he exhibited ways been found to have undergone be in proportion with the part to taken." be exclamed. "Apparent 30th January, 1929, or they will not

his proposal at the Universal Ex- hibition. William Lowe, a British was drafting plans of a tunnel from 5point between Fanhole and Saugatte to a point four miles west of Calais. He believed that the grey chalk of Dover continued un- der the strait to the continent, and deemed this fact furnished an ex- cellent opportunity to lay a tube because of the absence cracks and fissures in the chalk.

and the body of the man, just as struction of Gifteen cruisers and No Claims will be admitted after the the wings of the eagle are pro- one airplane carrier. pecessary to fix the wings so that years ago he would have voted 17th January, 1999, will be subject to portionate to its body. It will be Senator Gillett declared that two Goods remaining undelivered after the. their superior faces will never against increased appropriationa Bent touch f

All broken, chafed and damaged

Miss Hopegood used her voice Her actions are not wonderfully. very good but she makes them quite unimportant. It is that wonderful I will assume that the odde as flexible voice which can sing through phown against a horse are, 10 to 1. A whole gamut of emotions without Anyone who has already taken a loosing the harshness which is so ticket for, any, characteristic of Mrs. Warren horse can go to a booth and have characteristic of her mental attitude his ticket stamped with the odds and her breeding. It would be very † then standing against. that horse engineer of Wrexham, at this tire sically that their acquaintances make it operate in any direction waves is stronger than her- econo hard indeed to find a better Mrs. He may not get asually 10 to 1, but Warren or one who could bring he will get the odds as they are at out more fully every nuance of the that moment when his ticket is character.

stamped the odds that he will re- ceive may be shorter or longer than the 10 to 1.

д

Mr. Terence O'Brien gave brilliant study of Sir George Crofts, He looked the part, not only in his face, with its unhealthy pallor, but in every action, however trivial. His slow ponderous voice, with its husky tones and hesitation gave full value to every word and helped to build up a remarkable charac.

terisation.

-All Dons-Mechanically. All this in Mr. Hamilton's machine is done mechanically, First of all, the ticket showing the amount, of

DeGamond and Lowe formed na money invested is shown on the international committee which ap first ticket issued, together with the proved the project and sought to number of the horse on the pro obtain financing, and approval On Miss Daphne Carr fell the gramme, just as is done on the both sides of the Channel. A com difficult task of playing that most machines at present in use. The mission of the French Ministry of unsympathetic character Viviebacker can then go to another booth Public Works okayed the project Warren." Vivie is, of course, and at any moment that he wishes but refused to advance any money through and through her mother's can have his ticket stamped at odds It was estimated that the project daughter, that she realises the fact then ruling on the machine. Fur would take ten to twelve years to is part of her tragedy. Difference ther than that, the new stamping build and coet ten million pounds

on the ticket will show exactly how sterling. of upbringing and circumstances make the only difference. In the much he has to draw in the event

Among projects submitted were last scene particularly Miss Carr of his horse winning. If he does one by Zerah Colburn calling for was very good, and throughout she not wish to have his ticket, stamp- the construction of thousand foot sustained a difficult rôle with con. cd with the odds ruling at any „siderable skill and courage. moment he can keep his ticket to A big part fell to Mr. Arnold the end and then if his horse wins Walsh who made a very charming he will be paid at the odds ruling and natural "Frank." Pracd was at the off of the race, which will played with sympathy and skill by be starting price. The machine Mr. A. S. Homewood while Mr. is in fact a Robot bookmaker. Stanley Drewett had the part of the rector.

CHINESE AMAH CHARGED WITH MURDER.

HER ACCOMPLICES DIS-

APPEAR?:

Bome Objections,

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"Shylock's Teeth

The reverend precursor for new naval construction because of the Wrights and later inventions he thought that the disarmament Goods are to be left in the Gedowns, must have shuddered when he discussions then pending would re-where they will be examined on 18th thought of a possible catastrophe! ault in permanent progress in the January, 1929, at 10 am, by our "The "tail of the machine should disarmament problem being made. Surveyors, Mesars. Goddard and Douglas. "I find, however, that I am mis- All Claims must reach us before the which it is adapted, so that the motor which is found inside may claim that Britannia shall rule the

ly Great Britain's traditional | be

No Fire Insurance will be effected, recognised. Bill of Lading will be countersigned and as often as may be necessary. A New Physical Type."

mic necessities, and she has pre- by the Undersigned. Then attach the motor in the little ferred to zouse qur rivalry rather

JEBSTN & CO. Here we can see a new physi- boat in such a manner that the than seek our co-operation."

Agents. cal, rasial type being evolved gravity of the entire machine may

Hong Kong, 10th Jan., 1929. (7293 under our eyes," Sir Arthur point-be maintained and equilibrium" es- ed out. Moreover, in giantism tablished with, the slightest resist- Senator Gillett expressed as there is clear evidence of a distance.

tonishment at a statement said to sentiments," declared Senator Gil- ordered pituitary gland and a com- pression of that gland will lead to middle of the machine on the cen- it is

"The pilot will be seated in the have been made by Dean Inge that lett, we can hardly rely on the more than possible that peaceful and friendly attitude of dwarfism."

tre of gravity, and will hold in European nationa, enraged by the the rest of the English people. The thyroid gland and the cortex one hand a governing or control-bloated prosperity and airs

I can see.ng safar course open of the suprarenal gland also exer-ling rod with which to turn the superiority of the man who won

to us than an increase in our ciss

A powerful influence on tail to the side considered neces- the war, would unite to draw armaments.' growth...

sary, and with his feet he will. Shylock's teeth,"

"I have nothing to say about He said that under aberrant acoperate the wheel of the mechan When a high dignitary, of the that," said Dean Inge, last month, tion of the thyroid men and women ist, trus imitating the movement English Church, and a profes to a Daily Express representative result with a strongly Mongoloid of birds and accomplishing with sional follower of peace, parades who showed him the report of the caste of feature, From this ǎt

(Continued on next Column). could achieve." could be assumed that the typical his motor all that the soul of a bird such provocative and belligerent statements made by Senator Gil- Mongol was the result of an evolu tionary process in which the thy- roid could not play. its rightful part.

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Scientists agreed, he explained, that the original inhabitants of tubes to the end of which iron tubes | Australia. most closely resemble the were attached Colburn proposed first human beings. Evolution has hauling these tubes out and sinking not touched the Bushmen as it has them in place by a special appars the products of the other three tus. Thomas, Page, constructors of racial centres of the world: the Westminister Bridge, proposed the centres, front which come the erection of eight conical steel shafte Nordic type; the Negroid, and the between which the tunnels were to be Mongol.

For the evolution of A number of objections will be lowered from the surface of the There was, again, an extra: raised against this machine, as they water and covered with concrete. human type, said Sir Arthur a ordinarily cosmopolitan audience, were raised when it was first mea

In recent years a proposal has been double set of factors

must be and it is a wonderful tribute to tioned. It will be arged that it made to construct a spiral tunnel, postulated. One set was physiolo Shaw's genius that, like Shake- will be possible for a man to buy ish side and up again on the body; the other was more geogra corkscrewing down from the Eng gical in nature and moulded the speare's, its subtlety appeals to all, a ticket when there was no money French side, very much as trains phical and provided an isolated without distinction of race.

in the pool with which he could be

now wind their way up the Alpine cradle" in which the physiolo paid any odds at all. I will assume one man only has backed one horse, from the strategic point of view are. for the sake of this argument that steeps. It has become increasingly gical forces could operate undis

clear that objections to the tunnel turbed

It could be presumed that the while all the other horses have been backed. That man goes and has

not based upon sound reasoning be chief racial types: to-day had been his ticket stamped at the odds then cause of the case with which such evolved in conditions such as still There the ruling, and it is obvious that his 4 tunnel could be rendered useless obtain in Australia

in time of war..

tribal instinct is still strong, he bet clears the pool." There is no

said. Also the inborn prejudice thing for the Dext man to bet

known as race-feeling which con- against, and so if the race, were A sequel to the murder of an

tributes toward maintaining the started then he would merely gets for the great meetings under elderly Chineze woman residing at No. 23, Swatow Lane, on December his money back. That is quite Jockey Club Rules: The wiring re purity of any stock is isolationary 30th, last year, was heard at the true, but the same thing is trucquired for the electrically worked in its nature.

Politics And Biology*** to-day. It is not an unknown machine is, I understand, very much Central Magistracy yesterday

It is safe to suppose, he said, morning before Mr. RE. Lindsell, thing for a man who wish to back a less than that required for any other when a Chinese amah was charged horse and find no layer who can similarly worked totalisator, so that that the Caucasoid-East was the accommodate him because the layer it can be erected at considerably less cradle of the European races with the murder of her mistress.

bas already taken all the money on cost. Further, the device for issuing which came westward in successive It will be remembered that OR

the horse that he wishes to lay. It and stamping tickets is so simple waves. In this process tribal and the night in question, an old Chinese woman, was done to death is at any rate quite certain that such and so easy to work and to make geographical barriers were broken and a quantity of her jewellery state of affairs will be exceptional that here again the cost of manu- down and overcome and the evalu- was brought into dis and other valuable documents were and be overcome if the will be much smaller than tion of types w

civilization had missing.

An smah employed by totalisator itself were made, in such, that in any other machine that I order. the unfortunate old woman had an event, to place a bet on every have seen,

queered Nature's plan, he said. The essential part of the now The small nation movement to. other horse except the backed disappeared after the murder.

The Police have been busily en- horse. It will again be pointed out machine would, if a human being day is,. Bir Arthur believes, due to of the old gaged on the case, and as a result that no market will exist at the he could work it sufficiently quickly, a recrudesconce

of racial evolution. of their enquiries, the amah was ginning of betting. That objection issue tickets at the rate of 25 machinery arrested at her native village and can be overcome by making it a second at each issuing booth and Statesmen must realize, he declar- brought back to Hong Kong to face rule of the totalisator that no ticket yet not interfere with the remaindered, that they are dealing with a the capital charge. Det, Insp can be stamped until the pool has of the mechanism. Further, the new biological problem, not a political Lane told the Court yesterday that reached a certain sum of money, machine, so, it is claimed, will be one.

Finally he showed that national the police view was that there were One of the great values of Mr. able to issue tickets differing in

and patriotism are the other accomplices, among them three Hamilton's invention is that his value from 28 to 2500. The stamp spirit Chinese named Fok Chi, Chan Yu machine can be worked on a small ing machines will be able to deal in modern manifestations of Nature's and Lo Chiu. Two of them had scale by hand alone without any all odds and will be able, so I under- dislike to racial mixture. Where heen at Fatshan but had since dis electric current, so that it would stand, to stamp the odds and the two or more races had become fused appeared.

be available for small meetings such amount of money due if the horse into ones in Britain,-Nature as point-to-point meetings as well backed wins the race, no matter set to work to build up

what that amount may be

ucified race. (Continued en next Column).

His Worship adjourned the case fer a week,

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