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"GOTHIC ART."

INTERESTING LECTURE BY FATHER FINN, S.J.

it became

Music and Material.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930.

THE CROWN CASE AGAINST HATRY.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S OPENING,

(THROUGH ICTER'S AGENCY.]

stated, "there were present Mr. Ben Telegrams in Brief.

Dawson, Mr. W. D. Morgan, Mr.

J. G. Scott, Mr. Walkyisr, Mr. Lavingtom, and Mr. Bland.

un-

A Reuter message from Rome states that the airman Donati bas broken two records, namely a dis. tance and a duration flight in a. light aeroplane, by flying 1,750 miles in closed circuit of 20 hours

"It was resolved that authorised capital be increased to £150,000 by the creation of 100,000 shares.

Fictitious Meeting Alleged. "The whole of that minute," HUGE DEFICITS ALLEGED. Lommented Mr. Roons, is false.

No such meeting ever took place.

"This alleged increase was authorised and illegal. In spite of that. Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., got what they wanted. They paid a cheque for £203,000 to Iron In- dustries, Ltd., of which Bum The Air Ministry announces that. Wing Commander Celmore has been £202,500 was returned on the same

Airship day-another bookkeeping transac-appointed Directer of tion-and in return Austin Friars Development. Trust were allotted 203,000 shares af El each

LONDON, Jan, 20.

The trial opened at the Old Bailey to-day of Clarence Hatry, Edmund Daniels. Albert Edward Tabor, and John Graham Good. frilow Dixon, on serious charges of fraud involving millions of pounds in Connexion with what were known as the Hatry group of companies.

The case is being heard before Mr. Justice Avory, all defendants pleading not guilty.

The jury includes two women. Sir William Jawitt, K.C.. M.P.. the Attorney-General, in opening the prosecution, referred to the ad

Mt. Hutry a week before his company, Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., had even purported to quire the shares, had arranged for their disposal.

AC-

The Airmen Weiss and Girior ar rived at Aboukir on Sunday and continued their eastward flight ear-

y on Monday.

The President-Elect of Mexico. Senor Ortiz Rubio, has returned from the United States, where he has been engaged in some import; | ant unofficial discussions.

"He, called upon Mr. Wilfred de A further petition for the ap- pointment of a Receiver in Equity Selincourt and said: I ant raising

for the Fox Film Corporation has money for the purpose of merging various businesses in the steel in-heer lodged in the United States dustry, and should like your sup- District Court. The new petitioner alleges among other things that port. I can offer you 200,000 Iron Industries shares, which are worth Mr. William Fox used the Corpora 24. ench, and what is more I will tion funds for speculation in Wall offer you 3,000 shares for your fee' Street, and that he bought a num

"Mr. de Selincourt agreed ber of English theatres lend £200,000 until April 20. G$19,000,000 without seeing them.

It has been pointed out that, in a Gethie building as. compared with one of Classical style, there night e one-half of the material but cost- ing five or .even ten times the amount of labour, and hence the enormous gain in expression of the Father Finn, S.J., gave a most human spirit. Gothic architecture interesting lecture at the Helena has been called froser music," but frozen is repellant and I should May Institute yesterday on Gothic (prefer music inaterialized" or, if Art, illustrating his discourse with one could say it, material musiciz

ed.". Like music, it can be analyzed soms excellent, slides. He began by into the rations of numbers, the pointing out that the term "Gothic" Faymetery of plan can be plotted, was in its origins one of erstempt, ita obedience to law can be predicted and went on by means of words and and yet there results the miracle of two rotea and not a third-but a pictures to show hos, in its connectar." We may study the origin. tion with art.

one of and function of pointed arch. of ribbed vaulting and Aying buttress, honour.

mensure out the triple elements of The lecture showrd first a selves arcade, tritorium and clerestory, or tion of slides to illustrate the art the relations of bays in naven and of Mediaeval "Europe, the Tark aisle, try to realise how the forms Jare nant to sustain the struggle Ages which saw the flowering of with strain and thrisst, or wanders the spiritual genius of the Northerning probe the planning that would Countries. The name Gothic is reproduce a thorn-crowned Christ on the cross but, as in inusic, there really a tribute from the classical remains in the great masterpieces 2 South of the Renaissance to the power and charm beyond the reach peculiarly imaginative, living, dar of calculation. It was that quality ing art of the North. Si Linly of that carried the forms of architec- the Renaissance spoke of the "bar ture conquering abroad. barians and Goths" when it would show its disdain for the Latin of the School of Paris, even though that Latin was preparing the vigour." precision and penetration! of a newer age. We can afford to forget the implied contempt pad "Take the name as sauding for the artistic product of, a time when Europe was unified by a comunen than the emoties did with their tradition and customs built up or choice of Gothic ruins by the cald steel, but which was used for other sonally and unconditionally gust- building under the influence of moonlight. There was colour, as Church, Feudalism and University.

there was life, in these piles. The t in gradually being recognised very stones were alive with strain, the Renaissance HAA in its most and colour streamed in on them nirions features a set-back for the through windows'stained with "hues countries that had won their way romantic." while all about the to self-expression and that, it statues of saint and patriarch brought a vast expenditure of gleamed with tints" added by the energy in the adoption of a Latin brush. culture, artificial North of the Alps if not so alien to the Santh. Look- ing at history in its wider aspects as embrasing art and philosophy we can set the Gothic period of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries in the Northern Lands to balance th Periclean Age of Gru UK.

The Spell of Gothic Art.

In Gothic Art architecture stands pp. It is a most difficult art ecause of its practical end and its

In ark-n-day materials. conse quence it tends to lase itself in dull chanical repetition, in in the mediaeval period it rose Lo ity highest achievements of expression and flung its spell over almost every other form of aesthetic interpreta

tion.

Storied Windows Richly Dight" Milton seized on far more vital elements in Gothic with his,

love the high embowed roof. With antique pillars, massy,

proof:

And storied windows richly

dlight

Eused as the Directors of the Austin Frines Trust, whose liabilities totalled approximately £10,000,000 and whose assets amounted to £1,000,000.

to

"On February 7, Daniels wrote The history of this case, he said, Mr. de Se Selincourt acknowledg was mainly the history of a desing reecipt of £900,000, and signed the letter na assistant mannging perate struggle by the Austin

director. On the same date Hatry Friars Trust and these four men

wrote. In consideration of your torerowr # sum of £1,500,000 which en

ised with the intending to Austin Friars Trust, tion of using it for the purchase of

Ltd.. the sum of £200,000, I per

purposes.

filty, the accused had got dreper In trying to get out of the dif and deeper into trouble.

1873

He announced that the remain- ing Director of the Trust. Mr. John Ginldini, an Italian, recently went to Italy. Enfortunately, he could Gothic statuary appeals to us not he extradited under the

Extradition Treaty. now by ita delleary, grace, life, Lending counsel engaged in the spirituality, by its surprising rangease are the Attorney-Generäl, Sir from hieratic severity to roguish W. Jowitt, K.C., for the Crown, humour. Eyes accustomed to the Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C. (for art of Greece miss that perlection of Hatry), Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, physical beauty, but they learn to R.C. (For Daniels), Mr. find the new element of an inward Whiteley, K.C. (for Dixon) and life and personal expression..

Mr. Roland Oliver, K.C. Tabor),

Gothic Painting.

Cecil

WHAT DEFENDANTS HAVE

TO ANSWER.

antee payment of the said £200,000 on or before April 20,"

Letters of Allotment.

for

It is officially announced that the States War Department United contemplates the amendment of the Army Regulations so as to make any violation of the National Pro-

Fition Laws a military offence.

REPARATION CONFERENCE

CLOSES:

WAR.

"Hatry signed his name over a six-penny stamp. Mr. de Selin-"LIQUIDATING" THE GREAT court was accordingly given letters of allotment for 203,000 shares. He subsequently agreed to extend the loan to July 20. and again September 20, and each time Hatry extended his personal guarantee

to

"A further £1,000 stamp duty on the increased capital was paid to Somerset House, after which Iron Industries had to their credit at the lank £1,500,

"After this the defendnats drop: (farped all pretence of regularity and 'embarked on reckless frauds in con- nection with Iron Industries. Ltd.

Towards the end of February Dixon informed Mr. Bland that it was proposed to increase the capit- al by a further £1,500,000, that is 27, in the minute-book, there is ans up to £2.250,000, and on February other bogus minute purporting that the capital of the company be record a resolution of the board increased to £2,250,000,"

Gothic painting may in its highest achievements be represented by the Van Eycke, Stefan Lochner, and Giotto is too some of the Siense. individual to deal with him as a

In the latter stages of the Mages- there incident in this quick sum terial proseedings at the Guildhall mary, though he illustrates the Mr. H. B. Roome, for the Director trend to personal expression. Inof Public Prosecutions noun- the others, we find the echo of the ed several new charges against chivalry of the age there is the the defendants, Clarence Charles The Age was prord of its architecVirgin of purity yet of a mother's Hatry, Edmund Daniela. Albert tpre The decoration and forma

love, and there is the very parfit Edward Tabor and John Graham originated in that branch of the arts gentile, knight". Much of the work Goodfellow Dixon, of having obtain- were used by all manner of artists reminds us of Chaucer's

ed, £1,350,000 by false pretences. and craftsmen sculpture was niwaya

with intent to defraud. wedded to an architectural setting, Tainting

ewn manuscript. Rumization sought the same in- spiration and conined itself with in spaces devised architecturally: metal-work, ivories, furaiture, tex- tites followed the same fashion. Nor was it without good reason for the world has never seen a style of equal resourcefulness, daring, power over simple materiala (wood and stone), imagination,"variety and this beauty that suggests the mind and the spirit.

'PUDLO'

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Embrouded was he as it were a

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All full of fresh floures, white

and reede;

He was as fresh as is the monthe

of May."

The four specific charges made by Mr. Rooms were:

4

(1). On February 17, 1999, -ob- taining from Wilfred de Selincourt. by cheque, £200,000;

(9) On March 1, 1929, cheque the Westminister Bank, from £100,000;

Many problems of painting were unsolves in these works, yet there are people who find greater luy in

(3) On April 10, 1929, from then than in the technically supers, Kleinworts, Sous and Co., erior work of greater paties. A miniature from a manuscript van o ajawel-concentration of the brightest light and brightest hopes. of the art..

Ltd.. £200,000;"

INDIA'S EXECUTIVE

COUNCIL.

FIRM REMINDER TO MR. PATEL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

[THRORGH REUTER'A AGENCY.}

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CANTON BRANCH:-4, SHA KIE STEŐIT,

HORRIBLE MESSAGE TO

A CHINESE.

BABY'S HAND SENT WITH THREATENING LETTER,

The hand of a baby and two threatening pistel bullets with a

The Second Reparation Conferetter demanding $20,000 was sent ence has at last come to an end, to a Chinese resident of the French Concession, Shanghai, last week. and it may be held that the War has at last heen liquidated, and the the demand has decreased," says the N-C. Daily News, as some time political aspect of reparations re-

before the sum asked by the came hoved. **

►

THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO,

STEAMED FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO AND BOMBAY. TumouGH BILLA OF LADING ISSUED FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

Steamship ""MIRZAPORE"

The Protocol was signed to-day gang was $60,000, but "they have Carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be after ceaseless discussions since bow become a little more blood-despatched from tais Port on or about softhe thirsty and have adopted melo WEDNESDAY, the 22ND JANUARY yesterday morning.

dramatic effects. delegates of the smaller were able to go to bed at any time during the night.

Powers

It was ten months ago that the first threatening letter was received

Nothing

It was after more than twenty-by this Chinese gentleman, and he four hours in continuous session, refused to reply to it.

to deal with non-German repara- worrying. that the special committer appoint happened, and he ceased from tion problems, have Gnally reached n settlement regarding the pay- ments to be made by Austria and Flungary.

Hungary agreed to pay her credi. tors thirteen, and a half million gold crowns annually, after 1034 and until 1968.

Austria agrees to pay one mil lion annually during the same period.

From now on. Hungary will be released from the financial control cf the League of Nations. NEW DELHI, Jan. 20,

Apparently, the delegates, both Following an emergency meeting hungry and sleepy. were well of the Executive Council, the Gov- satisfied with the result of their ernment of India has issued a state-long deliberations. font claiming that it is directly responsible for the protection of

Then last week he received a telephone call from somebody whose voice he did not recognize. The Voice asked he had received a present, and upon a negative reply being given, went on to tell him just where it was hidden. Shortly after the spot was found, and the "present" was there.

It was a biscuit tin, in which was fourd the hand of a baby. Accor- pauying the tin was an envelope containing two pistol bullets and a letter. The letter demanded $20,000. and instructed the recipient to write on his door the Chinese char- neter "tien" meaning "heaven," if he agreed to pay the sum. If he did not intend to pay, he was to write the character di," indient- ing earth," in which case, he

1930, at r., taking Cargo for the

above Ports.

Sik, Valuables and Tes for "Italy, France and London (under "arrange- ment) will be transbipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London.

Parcels will be received at this Ofice

until 5 r.. the Day befors Sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages must be declared,

For further Particulars, Apply to MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Agents, Bong Kong, 21st Jan., 1930. [8921

THE TIME OR BLANKETS:

the Assembly and visitors to the

M were; Assembly, and that the President's LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND would meet the same fate as that

(4) On April 10, 1929, from M. Samuel and Co., Ltd., £300.000.

Hatry and his associates first charged with conspiring be tween July and September 20 obtain £200,141 by false pretences.

A short lecture cannot do justice to this period of achievement. It is hard to be obliged to make a selec- tion even Among the best known of On November 22 they were fur- the masterpieces.

It should be ther charged with obtaining money studied long and lovingly from all and securities to the amount of its sides and traced from lund to just over £400,000 by false pretences.

Mr. that one

Rooie. announcing the land, from age to ge may be ready for the proficient who charges, said: will lead the knowing one to find "I now pass to another branch the Gothic spirit reviving phoenix of the case in connection with a like in the Rocuru. Gothic, the real company known as Iron Industries,

Ltd. Gothic, may still remain duviare to the general,

NEW YORK SILK.

STOCKS INCREASING,

Meann Pentreath & Co. inform re that yesterday they received the following telegram from Alessra. Hornby Hemelryk & Co., Liverpool dated the 20th instant: New York cables raw silk stocks increas ing."

STAR

A

CARPI

presents"

THE ITALIAN GRAND OPERA

TO-NIGHT

CARMEN

FRIDAY, JAN. 24TH LUCIA di LAMMERMOOR

MALPA,

TO-MORROW IL TROVATORE

SATURDAY, JAN. 25TH

LA TRAVIATA

Booking at Moutrie's and Star. Prices: $4, $8, 82, ́$1."

'n

"Iron Industries, Ltd., was in corporated last January with nominal capital of £350,000 is 21 ordinary shares. The registered office

WHA Pinners Hall. There were three directors appointed by the subscribers to the Memorandum of Association, Dawson, Morgan. and Scott, each holding £100 shares. "The accretary was Mr. Bland, the nominee of Secretarial Services, Ltd., one of the Hatry companies, and all bree directors were nomi-, "nees of Hatry.

Worthless Shares. Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., ap- plied for 500,000 shares. They were paid for by a cheque for £500,000 drawn by Austin Friars Trust. On the same day £499,000 Austin Friars was returned to Trust.

"The transaction by which the shares purported to be paid for was a mere book-keeping transae. tion. It was not a bona fide tran saction and was not sanctioned by the directors of Iron Industries. It merely provided Austin Friars Trust with 800,000 worthless shares which Hatry pretended were valu- able and used for negotiating loans. The Westminster Bank, the bankers of on Industries, lent £400,000 to Austin Friars Trust on the security of 400,000 Iron Indus- tries shares.

power in regulating the admission of visitors in no way replaces the Government responsibility in that connection. The President's action in passing orders in this connection exceeded his legal powers and the. possibility of a motion of censure

A being discussed,

There are indications that if it eventuates, Nationalist and Inde- pendents will back M. Patel, even to the extent of resigning their While membership as a protest.

the Centre" of Moslems and Europe- ang support the Government, it is appreherded that the situation will adversely affect the prospects of a round table conference.

THE LOS ANGELES AIR "DISASTER.

CRASH IN THICK FOG.

(THROUGH RECTER'S 'AGENCY.]

OPIUM.

PRESIDENT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHOSEN.

(THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

of the baby.

The French police are now hasily engaged on the casc.

TRUSTS IN AMERICA. ---,,:, IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION

[TIMOTOR RENTER'S AGENCY.)

CHICAGO, Jan. 90. The United States Circuit Court

Gryeva, Jan. 20. The Advisory Committee of the League of Nations dealing with the opium traffic has elected Heer Vas Wettum, of Holland. as ita Presi- dent," and, to-day began considera- tion of the steps taken to cope with the illicit traffic in drugs.

Russel Pasha, of the Egyptian Police President of the Internation- al Detective Police, will participents. ate in the discussions.

18 HERE, BUT WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEMP

MEMBERS of the Committes et. tend at the Society's Room, CITY HALL, EVERY MONDAY and THURSDAY, at 10.30 to receive GIFTS of BLANKETS, Part-worn, Clothing, etc.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT BOCIETY, (EST. 1880.)

[8348

PEACE IN OUR TIME.

DUTY.

of Appeals has given a judgment MR. BALDWIN ON BRITAIN'S declaring that fifty-two oil com- panies are guilty of violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in pooling certain oil-cracking pat-

The judgment enjoins them per-

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)

REGBY, Jan. 20. Mr. Baldwin, the Conservative

It will be recalled that before manently from further violations he departed from Egypt, Russel of the law, and declares that ali Fasha made serious allegations agreements between the companies ex-Premier, speaking at his in- against a big. Swiss firm, stating with regard to patents and royal-stallation as Lord Rector of Glu- that it was known to have produc ties are to be regarded as null and

gow University today, said it ed two and a half times the world's void.

The case will now be submitted might well be that in the future, to the Supreme Court of the Unit-near or distant, the changes that. bad taken place within the British ed States.

Empire overseas, would most affect the world.

legitimate requirements in the course of a year.

Loa Avomes, Jan. 20. That the sixteen occupants met their deaths in particularly dis tressing circumstances is revealed by the lateat details of the terrible PRINCE IN SOUTH AFRICA. plane disaster at Ocean Side, Cali fornia, this morning.

The plane contained fourteen pas- sengers and two pilots and was on its way to Los Angeles from Aguacaliente, Mexico, most of the passengers having paid a week-end visit.,

The erash occured after the ma-

chine, a giant triple-engined Ford, had been fighting for a long time a thick fog, which had forced all aerial traffic dangerously low.

After the crash, when police and others rushed to the scene of the catastrophe, they found only a pile of red-hot metal, with the great cabin roaring furnace.

The spectators were helpless to assist, and it is evident that none of the pecupants had the slightest chance of escape.

CORDIAL MEETING WITH GENERAL HERTZOG.

(BRITISH WIRELESS, SERVICK]

RUGBY, Jan. 20. The Earl of Athlone to-day_in- troduced General Hertzog, the Pre- mier, who, shook hands with the Prince and bade him welcome to The the shores of South Africa. whole route from the docks to Gor- crnment House was thronged with cheering crowds,

Changes have been made in the arrangements for the tour of the Prince of Wales in Rhodesiat owing to the uncertain weather. He will now leave Capetown on January 27 and arrive at Johannesburg the fol- Apparently the pilot did not rea.lowing day. He will leave again lise that he was so near the ground on Febuary-Yarriving at Bula- wayo on February 3 and at Beira- and that when he decided that the

"Steps were then taken by the defendants to increase the share capital of Izon Industrica, Limited. "Dixon instructed Bland to write to the three directors, asking them if tho were agreeable to sign minutes purporting to authorise a

Ditahandmade tonn. Efbruary At Beita he vill

"No board meeting took place to turn back to San Diego, the left authorise it, but the minute book wing struck the side of the hill, records a meeting as having taken the plane immediately bursting in place on February 8, when, it is to flames.

embark on the, steamship modant The Prince played" for Mombasa, golf this afternoon on the Royal Cape Course at Winberg.

EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Milan

Ruasy, Jan. 20.·

123.99 4.88 6/30 34.935 25.195

12.11.

Paris New York Brussels Geneva Amsterdam

02:00

Berlin...

20.37

Stockholm Copenhagen

18,135

18.193

Oslo m Vienna Prague Helsingfors Madrid .... Lisbon Athens Bucharest Rio

18.215 34.62

101

1037

37.005

108.95

375

813

Buenos Aires....

Bombay. Shanghai..... Shann

Yokohama

Silver (spot) Silver (forward)

5 15/22 442

1/8.13/16 2/01

2/03/16 21 1/16 20 3/16

Our great Dominions had become autonomous. They were, in every respect, equal partners with the Mather Country, the link being the Crown and not Parliament.

British India was making her Arst steps on the road which in the fulness of time was to lead her to! self-government.

We found ourselves to-day in a world where the most civilised na- tions ardently desired peace. They had endeavoured, not without c cess, to bind nations into a League, In that League were included all the component parts of the British Empire, and that Empire repre.. sented a League of Nations of their own, which kept peace over a quar- tor of the globo itself and amongst a quarter of its inhabitants,

On us, declared Mr. Baldwin, Jies a responsibility greater than has been laid on any other country,. for we have not only to learn to govern ourselves, but to show MADY reces bien 110in us in language, custom and tradition baw to apply. our methods of self-government" to their own people.