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ELECTRICITY AND PROGRESS.

FATHER COONEY'S

"EXPOSITION.

"THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1930.

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ROUND THE COURTS. MR. HSU'S RANSOM. A TRAVELLING THE WATER SUPPLY.

PRISON FOR DESERTER.

A Chinese seaman of the Water Police Station, Kowloon, was found guilty of desertion by Mr. T. S.

tracy yesterday, and sentenced to one month's hard labour,

WHERE MAN HAS SUCCEEDED Wayte-Smith at Kowloon Magis

-AND FAILED.

Mr. W."le Bart Sparrow, 'Assis- Father T. Cooney, S.J., gavo a tant Superintendent of Police, who very interesting lecture yesterday prosecuted, said that the defendant evening on the subject of "Elec-igned on for Ave years ou December 10, 1926. He was given one months tricity and Progress," ably cor leave on January 1, 1999, but failed trasting the immense progress made by mankind in the use of electricity with his complete failure to solve the problem of the real nature, cf electricity. The lecturer spoke of

to return.

In the

CASE FOLLOWING DELI

MARU PIRACY.

JAPANESE OFFICERS GIVE

EVIDENCE.

Officers of the s. Deli Maru gave evidence of the recent piracy on the vessel, when the case against two Chinese who are charged with noting as agents for pirates, in carrying out negotiations for the ransom of Mr. Hsu, one of the kidnapped passengers, was resumed before Mr. Grantham at Central Magistracy yesterday.

CHARLIE PEACE.

CLAIMS EIGHT 'POISON VICTIMS.

ESCAPE OF SHANGHAI AND HONG KONG.

Detroit, Feb. 20-A self-confessed specialist in the art of murder went into the seclusion of the De- troit city gaol to-day to await in- vestigation into his round-the-world tour as a killer.

964 M.G. IN HONG KONG

RESERVOIRS,

The total storage in the island reservoirs on the morning of Mon-" day, February 24, arrounted to 964.42 million gallons shewing a decrease of 48.60 million gallons during the past week; the amount collected from streams being 44 million gallons.

The week's consumption amount. ad to 17.13 million gallons,

Kowloon Supply.

was as serious for a man to desert Mr. Sparrow pointed out that it whilst on leave as it was to desert

His name is James Baker. New

The total storage in the mainË. straight from the Force.

York police requested local authori former case the man would be

ties to make the arrest. He had land reservoirs on the morning of obtaining leave on false pretences, the electron theory, which resolves that is, having no intentions of

Mr. Arthur Covey, defending the been living in scclusion on a Mi-Monday, February 24, amounted to alf matter into different manifesta-returning. Had the defendant wish- hrst accused, informed the Magichigan farm for the past year bus 496.65 million gallons showing a decrease of 13.15 million gallons tions of the one phenomenon, elec-ed to resign he would have had to strate that, although he was not the preceding months had been live. pay one month's salary for each actually defending the second as

during the past week. tricity.

year he failed to complete.

ly. His Worship in convicting the derused, he was also watching the pro- fendant pointed out that the Gov- veedings on behalf of the man. ernment had been put to a good deal of expense in training him and if he deserted after receiving his training it was a loss to the Govern ment

Father Cooney said in part:

I wonder do wc. realize that, ne- cording to present day scientific opinion, electricity or electric fares lies at the foundation of everything material, that its story begins at the dawn of history long before man was interested in it...

From original chaos under the action of electric forces primeval smatter has distributed and arrang ed itself into the form and variety in which we find it now; electricity was from the beginning of time and da contributed the lion's share in the building of the universe,

Uses To-day.

What doen electricity mean to us to-day? Let me answer this way. You come into a room and touch a switch the place is flooded with light. You press a button, a bell rings and the servant comes. You wish to go upstairs; the electric lift brings you. In winter you are cold, the electric radiator warms you. In summer you feel the heat, the electric fan cools you. You may cook by electricity and preserve your food in the electric refrigera tor. Your motor and your neigh

Mr. Sparrow further remarked that it was necessary to maintain

strict

the

offence would become frequent.

discipline otherwise There had been about five ensea of desertion during the past year or so.

BIG COUNTERFEIT HAUL.

Two Chinese women and a man. were before Mr.Whyte-Smith yes- terday on a charge of..possession of nearly 400 counterfeit coins, rosem. bling" Hong Kong ten-cent pieces. The man was alleged to have had 43 of the coins in his possession while one of the women had 301 and the other 33.

All defendants pleaded guilty and the, man, who had been previously convicted for a similal offence in 1923, was sentenced to six months' hard labour: The woman who had the most coins in her possession was and the other woman three months.

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According to Baker's story as told to qfficials here, he murdered eight men during recent years simp- ly because he "liked" to see them suffer." Poison was the cause of death in all cases.

Baker admitted that he started

Mr. Ryosuke Kaneko, Chief Offi- cer of the Deli Maru, said that the vessel left Swatow on September 20, 1999, for Hong Kong. At 3.30 a.m. the next morning about twelve deck passengers invaded the bridge, out with the murder of one Henry two of whom, armed with revolvers, Gaw, a night watchman in the Gug.. entered his cabin and proceeded to genheim Laboratories in New York search him. Witness WAS theneity. He had stolen cyanide. for taken to the bridge, where he re-

this and he kept à supply' on hand. lieved the Second Officer, and was

when he set forth immediately compelled, at the pistol's point, to

afterward for a trip around the 'steer the vessel to Sam Chaa Inlet world as a sailor.

On arrival at their destination the pirates asked for two boats to be lowered. Members of the crow were ordered by the pirates to row the boats to the shore, and four passagers were also taken away.

Witacas continued that when be as first taken to the bridge the pirates broke the door of the room

hour's aeroplane have an electric given four months' imprisonment where the ship's arms were kept

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INTERFERING WITH WITNESS.

FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS.

ENGAGEMENT OF A NAVAL

LIEUTENANT.

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Sea Port Activities."

During the course of his travels. according to Baker's narration, be poisoned members of ships' crews at Houston, Texas, at Bombay, st Hamburg, at Manila and at Iloilo. The names of the victims were not

The week's consumption amount- ed to 96.9 million gallons, not in- cluding 2.01 million gallons supplied

to water boats at Lai Chi Kok,

The" yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week was 13.08 million 'gallons.

MILITARY ADVISER

KILLED.

GERMAN OFFICER KILLED

BY EXPLOSION,

SEQUEL TO NERVOUSNESS OF CHINESE OFFICER,

[UNITED PRESS.]

revealed. Part of the grand tour Alexander von

Hankow, Feb. 13.-The death of

Hornhardt Freis- of murder was on board a freighter, which he joined at Balboa, Canal advisor

missen, a young German militury the Chinese Government, Zone, about the middle of 1928.

who was killed on Monday morn While visiting Hoilo, Baker ating while teaching a number of tended a native fiesta where he saw. Chinese army officers" at Liuchia- Filipino drinking tuba. Baker miao how to throw hand grenades, slipped some cyanide in the glass caused a sensational rumour here and the man died immediately. The thas a foreigner had been shot by | slager had never seen his victim Chinese troops. Liuchiamiao, or before and knew nothing of him. Kilometre 10 as it is generally known, ia a railway town only about three miles from Bankow, the rumour thousands of Chinese and following the circulation of

went to-day to the place to take a glimpse at the "executed foreign spy,"

Blank at Hong Kong.

and took all the weapons. These were removed by the pirates, and witness himself lost an electric torch and a belt which were taken from him. Although witness did net hear the firing of shots, he found later that three of the In-

Subsequently Baker visited Hong dian guards had been wounded.

Kong and Shanghai but he saya hë The Second Officer, Fumio Hashi-killed nobody at either port. moto, said that at 3.30 a.m. four armed mon rushed the bridge from the port side. Witness immediate- ly informed the Captain, and was told not to resist. After he had

heen relieved from his watch, wit- Dess said that he remained on the bridge, and then for some time he was in the Captain's cabin. By about 7 o'clock the pirates had left. They were then about a mile away from the ship.

Three local weddings are

When witness went to his cabin nouneed to take place shortly as be found that three watches, two follows:-

Lient. Christopher John Wood, suits, three fountain pens, and a R., of H. M.S. Iroquois, to Miss sum of fifty yen had been taken Kate Mona Erid Hallaran, resid-by the pirates. ing at St. George's Hotel, Kennedy tond, Hong Kong.

Woman Among the Pirates. Wong Chau, bo'sun of the vessel, stated in evidence that he and other members of the crew were compelled. at the point of the revolver to row one of the bonts ashore, There were seven pirates, including a wo-

Suggestion of Paranoia. Later it was learned that the dis- covery of Baker's identity and re- cord was accidental. The curiosity of Thomas Smith, a newly-fledged New York detective who came to Detroit in connection with another case, led to the picking up of the trail and the final arrest of Baker.

Baker has told the police that he once studied chemistry and became interested in poisons. As a result, he found himself unable to resist the impulse to "kill someone every once in a while."

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The identity of the victim was a matter of complete indifference to him, Baker made clear.

Physicians who examined Baker said that he was suffering from a violent phase of paranoia,

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Police characterize him as "one of the most dangerous homicide maniace the country has harboured for years."

RAILWAY EMPLOYEES IN CHINA.

SIXTEEN GOVERNMENT

The rumour was soon dispelled; however, as it became known that the German and another Chinese

offer met their death in an accid.

ent. Investigations conducted by the local German authorities revë- al that Hornhardt-Freismissen was fatally injured by an exploding bomb mishandled by a Chiness offi- cer. It appears that the Chinese officer had a bomb in his hand and was trying to throw it in ac cordance with instructions. He tore off the fuse, but before he could get rid of the weapon be be came nervous and dropped it right in front of the party. The explo sion proved to be fatal, blowing the Chinese officer to pieces, seri- ously wounding two others, and fatally injuring the German milli- tary instructor.

Hornhardt-Freismissen was hit in the chest and was immediately brought to Hankow to receive me dical care. He died, however, ön the way.

Hornhard-Freismissen was only 28 years old, having been in China for about one year and in Hankow hardly three weeks. He was one of

structors employed by the Nanking Government and who came out to China with Col. Bauer, who is algo dead. Hornhardt-Freismissen had a wife and a child, both of whom are at present in Berlin:

machine, the magneto, on which they depend. Your doctor has the X-ray by which be can not only localize bone fractures, but can even produce pietures Indicating the condition of diseased lungs, the size of the heart, etc. In ionic A charge was preferred against medication, by means of an electric two women and a man before the current, he can pase drugs into Kowloon Magistrate yesterday, of your system, a mode of administer trying to dissuade the complainants, lag them often preferable to the from attending the court to give application of lotions and oint-evidence Inspector Dorling applied ments. Galvanism, Faradism, Dia for a week's remand and asked for

thermy, ultra-violet radiation cre bail in the sum of 3500 each. also electrical methods of treatment | In granting this His Worship now in the hands of the doctor and asked if any threats were made to proving of ever increasing useful dissuade the witnesses from attend- nees. In business the telephone, ing Court. He remarked that in- telegraph, and wireless are at your terference with witnesses was an disposal, all depending on electric-every day occurrence. ity. For your amusement it bas provided broadcasting and the latest arrival, the talkies, the latter depending on the action of the photo-electric cell when sub- jected to light variations. The transmission of photographs by telegraph and by wireless is now of daily occurrence, and television, although proving very difficult, is sure to come. Then indeed space can be said to have been annibil- ated, when we can both see and hear at home, in our armchair, what is happening in any place on carth. And outside the sphero of our personal interest, in the world Mr. James Campbell, engineer' in of the chemist and the engineer, the service of Messrs: Butterfeld & electricity is proving of immense, Swire, to Miss Laura Woolnough help. By its means many chemical Dransfield, of 11, Quarry Point, substances and metals, at one time Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. looked upon as curiosities, are now. Mr. Ralph Steriker Spencelayk, manufactured in abundance, and

marine engineer, residing at 2, the electrification of railways and King's Park Buildings, Kowloon, the electrical propulsion of ships to Ruby Evelyn Kew, of 8, Lower man, and they took into the boat EIGHTY-NINE THOUSAND ON the group of German military in are rendered possible. Finally, il- Castle Road, Hong Kong. though the list of applications which I have given is by no means complete, there is one more I should like to mention. It is the recent application to psychological research, The apparatus used in this is known as the psycho-gal vanie reflex. By its means it is according to most modern scient now posible to investigate closely ists was the passage of these elec the emotions in consequence of the trons through the conducting wire.

Our original question, what is effects which they produce on the body. It is found that every emo-electricity thus remains unanswer- tion affects the electrical resistance ed. We do not know! Science has of the body and can be registered so far failed to solve the mystery, and photographed by the psycho- and is beginning to despair of ever galvanic reflex. It is, as it were, doing so. There is however an an electrical mind-reading appare element of triamph in the failure; wound in the arm was given by an tus. Let me give you an example indeed, the whole story might be of its use. Suppose that we sus-headed The Triumph of Failure" duty and asleep in his cabin at the pect that a man is telling lies, that From it results the great achieve he has answered, a question an- ments in the practical field in which truthfully. We join him to the we have controlled electric force psycho-galvanic réflex and repeat and rade it serve us in countless the question. Let us suppose that ways without our knowing its real again he answers untruthfully, lies nature. We have progressed very in fact unblushingly, "What hap- far in the knowledge of what it can pens He may deceive his fellow, do, even though we have not pro- inan, but he cannot deceive this gressed in the knowledge of what

The Defence Outlined. new wonder, of electricity. Almost it is. That progress is, in itself, a

The Crown case having closed, before the words are out of his great triumph and the credit of it mouth a tell-tele spot of light flita belongs to the scientist.

Mr. Covey submitted that at the across the galvanometer scale..and If we had taken a different sub next hearing he would submit that reveals that he is lying. Such are jeet for this lecture, stars rather.no jury would convict either of the the claims made for it. But its than atoma, we should have had to accused on the evidence brought be "real value does not consist in such pass from the infinitesimal to the fore the Court. He would further sensational and perhaps unpopular immense, our units of measurement argue that the moneys which had been seized should be returned to uses. Rather its great utility is to changing from one-millionth of an be found in the enormous advan- inch to millions or billions of miles. the accused men to enable them to tages which it provides the earnest Standing midway, as it wert, he continue their offer of assisting in neychologist in his investigation of tween the infinitely great, and the getting Mr. Hsu released from the the nature and effects of mental infinitely small, and comprehending atate of being kidnapped."" processes and emotions.

in part at least the beauty of both, Mr. Covey added that the accused man cannot reasonably attributs it neted in an honourable way and in There is some the hope of getting some compen mastermind at work, responsible sation for themselves. for the beauty of design,, and man must acknowledge His existence and His greatness.

paper) the lecturer went on to speak of the electron,which has a diameter 100.000 times less than the atom The electric current,

Triumph of Failure, After speaking of the atom all to chance. (109,000, placed alongside would make the thickness of a cigarette (Continued on next Column.)

over ten baskets containing, loot. Four passengers were also taken from the ship. The second bont was rowed by the ship's crew.

Fitzroy,

Questioned by Mr. witness said that the passengers were unwilling to land when the boat arrived some distance from the shore. The pirates waded into the water and carried the passen- gers on their backs,

Evidence of receiving a bullet Indien guard, who said he was off time. He was locked in by the Pirates until the morning, when he found that the two fellow guards on duty had received wounds.

C.D.I. Murphy produced as an exhibit a large som in bank notes and documents referred to in his previous evidence:

SYSTEMS.

Nanking, Feb. 19.--The "Ministry of Railways has collected reports from the various Government rail- ways regarding the number of em ployees working on each line in 1920. It is learned that there were 89,DRD workers employed by the 16 Government. railways.

The Peking-Mukden railway, has the largest staff, with 24,461 work- ers. The railway which has the smallest number of employees is the Chang-Hsin railway, the line runn- ing between Amoy and Changchow, in Fukion Province. This line has only 43 workers.. The number of employees on the other Government lines are Peking-Hankow railway, 14,320 Tientsin Pukow railway, 11,684, Peking-Buiyuan railway, 8,132; Kino-Tsi railway, 6,121; Lunghai railway, 4,500; Hunan Hupeh railway, 4,211; Nanking Shanghai railway, 4,111; Shanghai- Hangchow-Ningpo railway, 3,129; Chengtai railway, 2,103: Canton Hankow railway, 1,981; Tao-Ching railway, 1,206; Nanchang-Kinking railway; 1,072; Canton-Kowloon railway, 705; and Chaochow-8wo- tow railway, 184.

A glance at the division of work- ers on the Tientsin-Pukow railway will indicate to some extent the number of employees working in various departments of the Govern ment "railways. On the Tientsin Pukow railway, there were in 1020, 538 employees in the General Affairs Department, a,884 in the Locomotive Department,. 4,347; in The case was adjourned until 11 the Permanent Way Department, a.m. on Saturday to hear the, de-and-2,115 in the Traffic Depart feace.

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CAUSE OF WALL STREET SMASH

BRITISH INVESTORS BLAMED BY YALE PROFESSOR.

[UNITED PRESS.

New Haven, Conn., Feb. 17. Prof. Irving Fisher, the well known economist of the staff of Yale University, announced to-day that an analysis published in his forthcoming book will show that the recent crash on the American stock- market was part of a world crash beginning in London, and of which the Hatry failures were surface causes,

The real causes, however, lie deeper, he states.

British holders of American, ste. curities, according to Professor Fisher, started a sharp liquidation on the New York Stock Exchange in order to protect their holdinga in London

The book emphasizes the close. in- ter-relation. of British and Contin- ental markets with American mar-, kets. It finds that American com- panies were over extended on credit, and were compelled to face British liquidation before their heavy fin- ancing was completed. It also con- tends that foreign liquidation on the New York Exchange is not yet at an end.

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