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·GREAT BRITAIN'S FOGS.

RENEWED CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH SMOKE.

CAUSE OF RICKETS AND

TUBERCULOSIS.

"About halt" a pound of acot pollution per million cubic yards is enough to cut out practically all the ultra-violet rays which would otherwise be coming through."

This was one of the facts about London fogs given by Dr. J. S. Owens, Superintendent of Observa. tion on Atmosphers Pollution,

The shutting out of the ultra- violet rays is possibly the worst and cat harmful feature of air pollution," said Dr. Owens: "It is the frequent cause of rickets and tuberculosis.

Types Of Fog. "Feg is a confusing word. There ought to he some recognised phrase to distinguish the types, as fog" to denote water fog and smoke- hazeto denote a fog caused by amoke,

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY. JANUARY 28th, 1929.

LITERATURE IN IRELAND.MAN WHO SOLD A BRIDGE. MAN HEARS OF HIS WIFE'S

TO BE UNDER STRICT CATHO- LIC CENSORSHIP I

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G. B. SHAW BANNED,

NOW SERVING A LIFE

SENTENCE.

HOW BE ESCAPED FROM GAOL.

George Parker, the notorious *** confidence " crook, who

ORCO

PAST.

DEATH FALL ON THE SAME DAY:

WOMAN'S APPEAL.

THE RUINS OF MOSUL

THE MOSQUE OF ST. JONAH.

Jerusalem," "January 13th The ail that gushes, from the petroleum wells dotting the region around Mosul is not the only attraction of this city of northern Iraq. But, Some one was kind enough to if it were not for the wealth obtain- inform my husband on the morned from petroleum Mosul, like an- cient Nineveh, might have con- tinued on its career of decay.which set in when the construction of the Sqez Canal put an end to the streams of trade which passed nerous Mesopotamia in the old days.

London, U.P.-Between" George Bernard Shaw's declaration that the new censorship bill in the Irish Free State would speed the Free"sold" the Brooklyn Bridge to a State on its way back to the Dark gullible farmer for $50,000, basing when he was killed that I was o gaol bird, and I believe that was the cause of his falling and meet- ing his death."

Ages, and Sir Chartres Biron's London order for the destruction of copies of the novel. “The Well. of Loneliness" on the grounds of ita alleged obscenity, literary lights. in the British Isles have received a shock likely to stir them into apen revolt against all censorship.

Under the censorship bill in the Irish Free State the question of the banning or admission, or des- truction of books, pictures or sculp.

been sentenced to a life term of imprisonment at New York.

According to police records,

Alice Williams, aged forty-five, a several widow, of Delamere-street, Pad- Parker, kaown under aliases, has seven convictions, six dington, who was released from prison only a fortnight ago after for grand larceny and forgery and undergoing a sentence of twelve

A "tangled confusion one for impersonating a police months imprisonment for a series

of thefts made the above state medieval clumps of buildings re officer. He pleaded guilty of passment at Westminster Police Court | deemed only by the irrespressible ting a worthless check for $150 on when she appeared on a remanded | colour of the East," is the way it lengths, a book, ten, sardines, and A faw mounds represent all that charga of stealing two dress struck one writer fifty years ago. chocolates from a Brompton road

the cashier of a restaurant in Brooklyn. In pleading guilty he gave his age as 68.

shop.

In court Parker presented a bat- ture now existing in the Free Statetered and forlorn appearance will rest with a censorship com- When he was arrested" he said beious convictions against Williams,

can be

had no money to employ a lawyer.

"Borrowed" Sheriff's Coat!

mittee comprised of five "members. Any "recognised organisation” can bring complaint to the committee

In addition to "selling" the against any alleged obscenity, and Brooklyn Bridge, Parker later upon agreement of four of the five "sold" four choice lots in City members of the committee, the Hall Park, also to a visitor from "A Londen leg is, a mixture of book, picture or statue

the West, for $25,000. The buyer smoke and water. But it contains ordered to be destroyed. The Dail was about to excavate for a build- less condensed wate: than a fog has already passed the second reading there when he was stopped by outside the city.

ing of the bill, and there is at pre- "How is it caused Mainly by a sent every prospect that it will soon the city authorities. ceasation of wind. The air is pass its third reading and become warmer in towns and heat tends to law. The great objection to the evaporate water. The soot in the bill which has been raised by Shaw, air is pressed down and replaces A. E. Synge, William B. Yeats, and the evaporated water with smoke a host of other, writers is that particles. London fog, in a sen. under the definition of Indecent" tence, is the replacement of water and "Obscenity" as defined in the by smoke.

bill practically all of the world's "The proof of smoke in a Lon-greatest masterpieces of literature don fog lies in the fact that when may be excluded from Ireland. Shaw's works have already been you see the sun through a Londoa semi oficially banned by a number fog it is red, and when you see it of libraries in anticipation of the through a fog outside. it is white."

passage of the bill.

The Remedy.

What is the remedy Abolition of smoke. This problem has al ready been solved in industrial furnaces. But not yet in the domes the fire. And in London about two- thirds of the smoke pollution comes from the chimneys of houses. In some other centres industrial chim.

Parker's most notorious exploit was his escape from the Raymond Street Jail in Brooklyn about 20 years ago. Sheriff Flaherty, just inducted into office, had left his hat and coat in an ante room in the jail. Parker, a "trusty" or office cleaner, put an the overcoat, a bulky garment of fur, also the Sherif's hat, and left the jail to a chorus of "Happy New Year, Sheriff Many of the keepers didn't know the new Sheriff very well, but were familiar with his that and coat.

But to the general objections on purely literary grounds, a new rea- The story goes that when Parker son for interest in the bill has just passed the last gate he assured the been found as a result of the recent guard that during his term of meetings of the Catholic Truth office" he would do anything for Society of Ireland. Speakers at the man be coulă, these meetings have made it clear that Southern Ireland should hence.

CRITICS.

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of

of

is left of Nineveh, once among the proudest cities in the world. Widow's Record.

Until the last century, no one in Detective Sergeant Widocks said Mosul or anywhere else suspected that there were a number of pre- the rich treasure hidden in these

mounds The very name Nineveh seemed to have perished. going back to 1887, when she was a girl. There was nothing against An Exploded Tradition,

period of ten her, however, for 2

All that Mosul has boasted for years 1915 to 1925. She married some centuries is a 'standing in that interval, but her husband, ⋅ miracle ' a minaret of one of the s window-cleaner, fell from a lad- mosques which leans to one side. der and was killed in 1925. She The Mohammedana say that when „then returned to shoplifting, the Prophet came to Mosul, the tower of the mosque bent humbly to him in reverence. Acknowledg ing the salute the Prophet left it bending, as a monument of piety. That the Prophet never came to Mosul and that the minaret' was not built until six centuries after his time, had little effect on the tradition.

Williams: I have never appealed for leniency before, sir, but I hope you will give me a chance now. The prison people cannot do any- thing for a person who has had a long sentence.

Detective Sergeant Widocks said that Williams had a bank book in her possession showing £137 to her credit.

Williams: That money was ob tained honestly. I had the book with me in prison.

Mr. Gill, the magistrate: You bave pot even the

excuse of poverty, and must go to prison for three months with hard labour.

X-RAYS REVEAL A MASTERPIECE.

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HOLBEIN PICTURE HIDDEN

BY PAINTI

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Because international interest centres on the oil-wells, the history of Nineveh yards wide, is being freshly studied. Although pro- tably not as great as described by the Greeks Nineveh was an impres sive city with town planning legis lation making it a crime punish- able by death for anyone to build house encroaching on the sixty- yard wide street.

The great mound which covered the pitiful ruins of the royal palace have been fairly well explor- ed. The British museum is rich in its strange treasures. But another mound, which probably covers the site of great temple, escaped the excavator. A small village strag- A portrait by Holbein, partly gles over it, and in the centre is buried beneath a later re-painting, the famous mosque. It is the mosque of St. Jonah and it contains of X-ray photography,

not only the body of the Prophet, The portrait is that of an ances but one of the most. wonderful the. tor of the present owner, who rerelica of the world sides in London. It is described visitor is told--and one does not in the family records as by Hol need to be a zoologist to smile-

Modern, experts, bowever tooth of the whale that swallowed have disputed the attribution Jonah! bitherto, because the clothes worn by the sitter are Elizabethan, and therefore must have been painted after Holbein's death,

forth be regarded as a Catholic WOMEN POLICE AND THEIR has just been discovered by means accept the Church as supreme in Thus the a moral questions." State is to act as the secular arin of the Church. and will enforce Catholic principles of censorship as applied to the stage, literature, paintings, sculpture, and the Fress.

neys are the greatest offenders. nation, and that the State must

"The Department of Scientiño and Industrial Research now has eighty or ninety stations with de- posit gauges There are nine in Glasgow alone. Measurement is most important. We want to en- courage the cities to do this for the dirtiest places are often inclined not to measure, because they do

not want to be labelled.

"It is essential to have fairly atcurate measurement. If you go to a firm and tell them they must reduce their smoke, you must be able to tell them how much you want it reduced.

Otherwise they will be inclined to reduce it as Hittle as possible.

Affected Districts.

The districts most affected with smoke are the Lancashire mill towns and the Leeds, Bradford and

Sheffeld districts.

Measurements are necessary for three reasons. They show the ex tent of the evil, the incidence in different cities, and whether im provement is taking place,

A "CURSE" FOR SIR W. "HORWOOD.

It may, of course, be that the bill

According to Commandant Mary will never be enforced with the S. Allen, head of the Women's rigorousness that its opponents Auxiliary Service, it is only 4 fear. Nevertheless they are bitter-well-developed sense of humour." ly opposed to subjecting themselves, which has enabled women police to to the risk of its too literal inter-keep their end up in face of the actation and a number of writers various attacks which have been Yeats and Syage have made against them during the last declared that its passage will force few weeks. them to leave the Free State. Addressing the members of the whether they would fare much bek- Soroptimist Club at the Washing ter under the British system if theyton Hotel, Curzon Street, Londen, came to England to live remains to Commandant Allen said: "You have read reports of what some of be seen. "

our chiefs have said with regard to our usefulness and our general capacity, and you will realise that it has been a little difficult for mosi of us during the last few weeks to keep our and up at all. If it were Inot that most of us have a well- developed sense of humour we should not have been able to do it."

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BRITAIN'S GILBERTIAN " LAWS ON BETTING.

VIEWS OF A K.C. AND A SESSIONS CHAIRMAN.

This is rather remarkable.

Referring to Sir William Hor- Here is a chart showing the de-

Comments on Britain's betting wood's evidence before the Police posita of London and Glasgow. laws were made by the chairman Commission concerning women, po- They show practically the same and counsel at the London Bessions lice, the added: "He said, among. changes. And though there was a when John Stewart McLauchlan, other things, that no policewoman steady decrease from 1914 to about aged fifty-six, commission agent, of was capable of taking a case and 1923 in both cities you will find no New Bond-street, was indicted for dealing with it from A to Z I improvement in either since 1922.

for the purpose of using premises

was sitting behind him when he "You End an average deposit money being received by him as a made this statement, and I found for 1815-16 of 415 tons in London consideration to pay money on cer- myself wishing with all my heart and 422 in Glasgow: This had been tain contingencies relating to horse that I had the power of the old reduced in 1921 to 264 tone for racing and football." London and 955 for Glasgow. Now

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He pleaded guilty to that part the figures stand at 316 for London of the indictment relating to foot- ball, and a fine of one hundred and 320 for Glasgow.

pounds and costs was imposed. The drop from 1014 may pos Mr. Vernon Gattic, prosecuting, sibly be accounted for by the in- said that McLauchlan had been stitution during those years of gas convicted of the same offence in and electric stoves, and these may June of last year.. have reached saturation point in 1931.

Present Betting Laws." Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, K.C., Soot-Laden Air, "Out of London's 316 tons of for the defence, addressing the chairman, Sir Robert Wallace, deposit during the past year

You get forty tons of sulphates, which .C., said: "I am sure your lord ship knows what the position of the come from burning fuel alone..

About 200 million tons of coal betting laws at the present time

are burned yearly in the United Sir Robert Wallace: I do not Kingdom, of which thirty-five to think anybody does. forty million are burned in grites.

Sir Henry: I have found it diffi

witches so that I could call down a curse upon him, because I knew. that worse statements were bound

to

o follow this after attending the Commission; that there was a de finite bias against women being trained to such a high efficiency that they would be able to take positions in the higher ranks of the forec The actual position at the moment" is that the principle of women police has been accepted. But what we have to do is to make the authorities realise that we have a very special part to play in the reorganisation of the police force all over the country.

re

The police force of the future Ap- ha fig to be thoroughly over- We know that the standard

This means that two and a half cult to understand indeed. million tons of soot are sent into parently if you go to a house, and of men called upon and recruited the sir."

take money with you, and leave for the Metropolitan Police Force money for the bet,

you send it of the standard of men we have A Frenchman who lived for years milting an offence Yar com is going to be very much in advance in China, Dr. A. F. Legendre, has by post you are committing an been accustomed to. We want to written

that a higher standard of a book

"Modern offence. If you telephone your bet, Chinese Civilisation," which is to and do not take the money or send women are also called for. The be published in English. Heit, you are committing no offence. authorities both in the provinces writes with the exactness of a It seems a little Gilbertian in and in London are apt to think it scientific observer, but also with a character.

unnecessary that we should have

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wealth of. picturesque detail_pos Sir Robert Wallace said in in-educated women in the force. At sible only to an old resident. Most ficting the fine: The law is cer present they take a woman in just people have supposed the Chinese tainly in an extraordinary posi. I brenuse she is a woman. They put to be born agriculturists, but Dr.tion, I think you are taking a her into a uniform and expect her Legendre saya they are only expert wise course in pleading guilty to know all there is to be known gardendeghize the repute should there be any repetition of about the work tion of being industrious, but he the offence there is an alternative regards them as the authors of the punishment, which would very aix-hour day.

likely be inflicted.

If somen were given the intensive treiming that men receive I do not think that they would fail in their duties.

beia.

X-ray photography has now re- venied an underpainting showing clothes and cap in the fashions of twenty-five or thirty years earlier. This underpainting, which can be uncovered by a skilful restorer, is believed to be the Holbein picture of the family records.

The explanation of the over- painting is simple. The sitter, when he was painted by Holbein, was a young man recently back in England from the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He became a sheriff in later life, and Queen Elizabeth honoured him by visiting his house.

He was so pleased with his new dignities that he decided to have his sheriff's robes painted over the clothes in Holbein's picture.

The task of removing this over painting is one of extreme delicacy. Holbein painted five members of the sitter's family, and this port rait has been handed down ‚BS ́ an heirloom for nearly four hundred years. If the Holbein underpaint ing is uncovered successfully the portrait, as a recorded pedigree picture, might be worth £30,000 to £100,000.

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Tima.

Time.

20.04 £9.99

Temperature

Enviidity....

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29.95 64

93

Mon. 28

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