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(June 18.)

First Day of Saphor

Lammert's Auction Sale of Fur- |niture, Metropole Hotel, 10.30 a.m

#Old Wallingtonians" - Dinueri Hong Kong Club, 8.15 p.m.

Peak Club, annual meeting. Quson's Theatre: "Inspiration." World Theatre, "Hell's Angels."

THE TALKING ANIMAL,

EUROPEAN WRITER DEFENDS CHINESE

GENERAL

THE MAN WHO BANNED “ALICE IN

WONDERLAND.

Nows comes from China that the

How: Lika a Hukkamis Governor Jof: Hunan (General Ho

If a child is brought up to be Star Theatre: "What A Man."

Chion) has prohibited the use of fieve that a fly can boast in por-i King's Theatre: No Limit":

Alice in Wonderland as a textfectly good English that it witness- Central Theatre: Balaclava,"

book in the schools of the province, led the death of Cock Robin, is not i Dances: Tes Dance at Hongwrites Robert Lynd in the News this likely to implant in its recep- Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong

Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel. Chronicle.

via Siberia (Taishan) 9.30 p.m.

Friday.

European, Mail-Inward Europe. His reason for doing so is that via Baez (Rawalpindi). Outward it is an insult to the human race to endow animals with powers of humani - speech, and that "any children reading such text books must inevitably regard shimain and human beings on the same level, and this would be, disastrous."!

(June 19.) Water Polo: First Division: Royal Navy Chinese Bathing [Club, 6 p.m.; Second Division: Victoria Recreation Club "B" «. Kowloon "B," 6.30 p.m."

Ever

in Europe we are making Queen's Theatre; "Inspiration."such rapid strides in our knowledge World Theatre: "Wild Com of infant psychology that within a pany

comparatively short time our edu cationists may be expected to dis. cover the very important truth that the Governor of Hunan bas sen

Saturday,

(June 20)

tive mind the humiliating suspicion.

that there is no difference between

a fly and a human being except in the number of legs 7:

Similarly, if it reads the story of the frog who attempted to blow herself up into the size of the ox und burst herself in the effort, it is almost certain to overlook the fact that the frog burst herself, and, because she could talk, to re- fuct: How like a human being!!!!

That is the fatal flaw in Esop's fables. All those talking animals scom to us exactly like human beings. If the fox, having looked looked

Star Theatre: "What A Man." Central Theatro: "Balaclava? King's Theatre: "No Limit." Dances: Tea Dance, H.K. Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotels in a flash. It is the supreme at the grapes, had merely and Peninsula Hotel.

glory of the present age to have disappointed and gone away with Lecture at the University by Dr. realised with, ever-increasing carous word, we should never have Magnus Hirschfield, 8.30 pm V

thought of him as one of ourselves. titude that every preceding age was European Mail-faward Europe in Siberia (Banpura) Outward: ignorant of children and their best But when he says, "Let "who will Lurope via Busz. (Ranpura)- 10:30 | interests.

take them; they are but green and sour; so I will even let them Our Dignity at Stake?

alone"why, he might be you or We have already had & movement |11. Once again the number of legs for expurgating nursery-rhymes and in the only difference. fairy tales, and to cleanse them. It would be a mistake to regard from all such zoophobic germs as too lightly the probable, conse are to be found in the story of quences resulting from such stories. Miss Muffett and the spider. To At a very early stage man trium- depict Miss Muffett running away phantly established his superiority from the spider, it was pointed over the other animals, and his out, was to instil the poison of fear only hope in the present or in Lawn Tennis A Division: into the minds of children and to the future lies in his not sinking M.B.K. v. Hong Kong C.C., Indian hinder the growth of the sentiment buck and of behaving more like a R.C V. South China. Kowloon

Dragon Boat Festival, Lawn Bowls.-First Division: Police v. Taikoo, Kowloon 0,0, e Craigangower, Kowloon Dook Kowloon B.G.O., Civil Service Recreio., Second Division: Taikoo Civil Service, Recreio r. Yacht Club, Kowloon B.G.C., Kowloon CC., Craigongower v. Hong Kong Electric.

C.C. Chinese R.C. "B" Divi- of kindness to animals..

tiger or a hyena or even a donkey

aion Recreio. Nippon Club, As for the dreadful fairy-tale, in than a human being. May not Hong Kong O.C.. Indian C., which a wolf. imporsonates a this bo traced, to the fact that Kowloon Co. v. South Chins, Craigengower Army T.C., Uni-grandmother and threatens a small pop and other writers have taught versity U.S.R.C." Divi girl with death, it may teach many him that the tiger and the hyenn sion: Y.M.C.A. . Deutscher Club, things, but it certainly does not and the donkey and he University. Craigengower, Chi-

brothers 1 nese R.C. v. Army, T.O., Recreio v. Civil Service, South China v Hong Kong C.C, Radio Sports Club v Kowloon Iniane.

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teach kindness to wolves.

You Pig, etc.

Ard

The Governor of Hunan, how; ever, bases his objection to cortain) I have noticed, during the past Queen's Theatre: "Inspiration." stories about animals on sterner half-century, a distinct: inclination World Theatre: Wild Com grounds than these. He realises on the part of human beings to pany.

Star Theatre: What A Man.' |that the dignity of the human race regard each other as undistinguish- King's Theatre: "No Limit."

is in peril and that it has been able from the lower animals. More Dances: Tea Dance, Hong Kong in process of being sapped for hun-than once I have heard a humsa Hotel; Dinner Dances, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels

dreds of years by a series of stories being speaking, almost casually, of European Mails: Outward: in which animals are made the another as a pig, or an ass, or a Europe via Suez (Lanpura) 10.30 a.m.; Europe of Siberia (Emp. equals of men in their powers of cat, or a dog, or a reptile, or a

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