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With that passion for irrelevantdence was shaken by these dis A story is told of a doctor who Jawa. Sentence was passed, but, as during the war specialised in research which distinguishes so closures, and in order to reaSERTO

offence was of a technion! nature pairing damaged faces by grafting) American savants, and the mothers of New York the autho

On one occasion, such was his psychologist has examined a Nanking had seted in this way to grafted upon a man's forehead a fusion is that they are beautiful, and violet rays are turned on. Its the doctor was soon released. If wathetis delight in his work, he number of chorus girls for intelligrities have decided to brand the ence. Briefly summarised, "his con of the infant is applied to its thigh babies. A stencil bearing the name wards Mr THORÚAN she would small piece of tattooed skin from a

but not "dumb, as has been supaine thereafter is outlined upon its comrade's.. forearm. The idea was have been guilty of a clear breach that the surrounding hair could be posed hitherto. Their intelligence akin..in a gentle sunbura. Unlike of treaty rights, but at least the brushed over the bald patch thus rating is 18, compared with 61 tattoo marks, this fader in a week. procedure would have been in ac created, and that the pigment of the for soldiers, 78 for actors; 86 for tattoo colouring would melt into business mon, 130, for college cordance with civilised custom. The the general tone. Unfortunately, women, and 127 for college men. 500 Aura, unhappy implication is, however, the doctor did not examine the Politicians do not seem to be in the that in China, criminal procedure tattoo very carefully before applica-running at all.

tion. When the bandages were re- is liable to consist of spiriting away moved the word "Efe, accom Overheard at Lord's. a person who may, or who may panied by the symbol of a pierced not, have come in conflict with, the heart, appeared upon the man's, low; to refuse all information and forehead. The patient was much

displeased. to disavow the proper respon- | › sibilities of a civilised government, The Hoarding Complex.

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My grandfather had civil official, who, in conjunction the hoarding complex acutely. He with n. War Office representative, kopt suvelopes, and the most trivial and unimportant things, so that investigated the circumstances of when I went through his papers I the disappearance of Mr. Tonnues found hundreds of black penny Is the Earth Flat? has since died and, "thus any fur-stamps, twopenny blues, without

It is argued that the Wiley-Post during sleep and in diease, and dis lines and Mulready envelopes. ther evidence from the only Chinese Most of these I have sold, "Amongst fight is another proof that the appear at death. Another reader civil official who has investigated his hoardings was an autograph earth is round. It may be so, but sends me a report describing the the caps in no longer available," letter written by the author of that would hardly convince a deter- ay eriments of & Dr. O'Donnell, of

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There is no Chicago. According to this report, We cannot understand how Mr. C. still hold. My mother was not a crankiem quite so firmly held by T. WAND: failed to do better than hoarder. So she gave away to the that. Did the official in question villagers three volumes of the first adition of Tom Jones to save Editorial and Business Offices: 1tary, and, cannot his War Office for their beda.”

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A DISGRACEFUL INCIDENT.

MR. C. T. WANG, the Foreign Minister of the Nanking National Government, has, according to a Reuter message of July 31, virtually informed Sir MILES LAMPBOX that if British subjects venture into China without getting. a. passport from the Chinese authorities and without having full arrangements made for their safe conduet with the local authorities of the districts

Too Well-Behaved i

After the luncheon interval, when

My.reforence to Dr. Kilner's work on The Human Aura bas brought me a number of interesting. letters on the subject, and I am the players were returning to the glad to know that others are carry- field, a girl who was sitting on the ing on his experiments with dieyanin screens, says a writer in the Lon- Mound, asked her brother: Why don Morning Port. A doctor do some of the players come out of the middle gate and the others out writes: There is nothing really of the side gate "Oh," replied mysterious about the aura, na every the small boy immediately, the living substance has an atmos amateurs come out of the middle phore-and probably every sub- gato and the real cricketers, out of stance of every kind-just as the the side gato!"

earth has an atmosphere. The nura "tis composed of small particles, which are interntomic. They alter

those who hold it at all. The only Dr. O'Donnell succeeded in demon way to deal with a Zetetist would strating the existence of an aura bo to take him to the moon and lot

But our English Zetetists seem to her of physicians, who seemed con have been demobbed," though the vinced. Then, in a hospital, ho race still flourishes in Americawatched the nura of a patient who years ago they were very active and

yours.

colleague give any help! We do not know anything about the un- fortunate accident to the late Mr. The old lady who for 30 years has used to send pamphlets imploring only had a few minutes to live. At SUENO, the official ia question, but Oxford to visitors does not approve Kipling has called "immoral geo that he abserved the aura spread shown the Sheldonian Theatre at people not to learn what Mr. the moment of death he declared. Chinese notabilities, have so often of degrees. for women.

She congraphy." Laken refuge at a convenient mosiders that "the girls have spoilt

away from the body and disappear, and that all attempts to observa an mont behind various forms of sick everything" at Oxford. She com- At Winchester.

pared the well-behaved young: men ness nud mishap, that. the Nanking in the gallery who watched the pro-

"I went down to Winchester the aura round the corpse failed. There Government has only itself to blame cession of graduates receiving their other day, for the first time for some experiments appear to have been conducted on a 'scientike basie and if there is a certain bland scep last month, with those of the past degrees on Commemoration Day

It was most refreshing, ticism about Mr. SHENa's death and who had their joke for everyone after passing through a countryside the doctor advanced no explanation the complete disappearance of the She recalled how, when Lord Tenny scarred, with petrol stations and of the phenomenon. results of his investigation. 建 son was given a degree. the wits tea gardens, to find everything there

in the gallery called out:

Did Extraterritoriality was establish- ed because the Chinese Government was unable to guarantee humane and just treatment of foreigners within its borders. In these days, we are told, the old order has been changed; and a modernised Chins heartily. has introduced up-to-date justice and security, The THORBURN gaae hardly bears out this claim.

AN OXFORD MOVEMENT.

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your mother really call you early, practically unchanged, wrapped in Alfred!" Even when Queen Mary, the restfulness of dignified anti- No wonder English, politics who was then Duchess of York came quity. In the fine panelled hall of mystify the world, and the follow- with the King to the Commemora tion the Irrepressibles greeted her College, with its lofty, raftered ing paragraph from a Conservative from the gallery with the song: roof, the scholars still eat their paper is not of a kind to throw For she is the Belle of New read and butter and jam off light on the puzzle." Mr. Maxton's York Queen Mary laughed wooden trenchere, as their pre-apology to the House of Commons

Down With Buff Paperi

decessors did when the school was for his part in the scene, when Mr. founded by William of Wykeham | McGovern was ejected was a master. in 1383. And they still wear their piece in its completeness and its The typists in Whiteball are dis-long stuff gowns and sleoved waist- dignified simplicity. There was contended with their lot, and have coats, with top hat and white dreia contrition in his voice, there was presented a formidable list of de-tie for Sundays."" "Peterborough" apology in the accentuated droop of mands to Mr. Lansbury as First in the London Daily Telegraph. his body; bir whole attitude betray- Commissioner of Works and to Mr.

|rd: a keen realisation of the posi |tion · into which his impotuolis

they intend to visit, the Chinese MR. Puxca's anecdotes aften have Pethick Lawrence, who is respon- Lord Carson's Estates. Government takes no responsibilitý. a poignant and long-enduring apsible for the Stationery Office. Mr.

Mr.

Hong Kong, 22nd July, 1931. 1968 DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE official or unofficial nature. Visitors of the elderly well-td-de-sportsman, has be there on questions of hot last month, Fine pieces of English him. When the Prime Minister, for any consequences either of inpeal. A case in point is the story Lansbury has been obliging. He property book place at Christie's served his sympathy, had brought The sale of the late Lord Curzon's | loyalty to a colleague who ill de-,

to China can, we must assume; be who says to a youth about to join water supply, heating and wool and French furniture cate under who has been much hararsed by the arrested; or robbed, kidnapped or one of the huge crowds that attend footmats, window cleaning and the hammer, and on July 12 the Left Wing, spoke of the beauti murdered, and the authorities wash English League football matches lighting. He has also introduced a collection of Dutch and English fully sincere and frank statement"

Mr. their hands of the affair.

on Saturday afternoon: "When I new design of typing-table. As for pictures was. ‚'auctioned. ́ ́ The late of Mr. Maxton even the Conserva, Waxa tells us, in fact, the protec was your age, I used to play games, Mr. Pethick-Lawrence, he has Lord Curzon had a strong acquisitives cheared him loudly.... No one tion which is accorded to life and

not match them." To which the agreed that buff paper in future tive instinct. At one period of his had ever before quite realised how property in all civilised countries youth replied: "When you were shall be o fa lighter and less trying life he owned does not exist in China. Mr.

rented as many as much Mr. MacDonald admires my age, you had a ground to play shade, but the typists want it seven different properties-Redles Maxton, In fact, on occasion, Waxo, as able, courteous and well

on-I haven't!" As long as hun abolished altogether. They also ton, Carlton House-terrace, Hack there has been some misunderstand- dreds of thousands of lads can only complain that they have to operate wood, Montacute, Bodiam, Tattering on this point. But then every- play football or cricket in the too many old machines. There as shall, and a villa at Birchington one in the House does love, Mr. streets (which is a constant cause | most complaint about the conditions on Sea. Two of these including the Maxton. I once asked an official of of traffic accidents, according to in the Admiralty; the noise, it is lovely mooted castle at Bodiem, the House of some 30 years' stand- statistics collected by a Committee urged, is so great that girls engaged Sussex, he presented to the nation; ing who was the most popular men, of the Ministry of Transport), a in checking suffer continually from the seaside villa he left to his step-bor, and without hesitation be large proportion of the population voice strain. But nothing will ever daughter; Kedleston went with the awarded Mr. Maxton that honour. of Great Britain will not be as good quite kill the legend of a tranquil title: the lease of Montacute ex There was no one, ho said, to com- As it ought to be. Howeyer, the Whitehall

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pete with him, vital necessity of extending the existing facilitits for playing games. that are now enjoyed by boys at the Elementary Schools is now recog- nised, and every fear precible addition to the acreage of public playing fields. A special word of praise is due to the Oxford.

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educated a diplomat ak any in the world made this extraordinary ad mission to Sir MILES LAMPSON in connection with the disappearance, some two months ago, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, of Mr. JOHN THOREUEN.

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Local Notes and Events

Owing to the inclement weather At the weekly, meeting of the Judge Sir Peter Grain is com

Rotary Club to-morrow Professoring to Hong Kong to attend the

What is Public Opinion ? R. McC. Story, Ph.D., will speak Full Court on August '10.-

We all know the facts of the case. Mr. TRORAUEN is believed to have been involved in a fracas with the Chinese police and to have been arrested on or about June 1, but in point of fact all official trace of him is lost after he left the Shanghai. Concession. Small wonder that stories are told of torture, mutilation, and wors, by Chinese officials, Nothing has been" Cricket Movement started, some the interport trials at the V.RC. dons to refute such rumours. twelve years ago by Mr. J. B. F. on Saturday night were cancelled.

Under the terms of the Extra-TURNER, whereby the many excel. territoriality treaties, if Mr. Tuon BORN had had the alleged fracas with the Chinese police the matter should have been reported to the nearest British Consul, whose duty it would have been to have arrested Mr. TionDURN sad to have invca- tigated the affair according to the methods of British criminal pro cedure. On the other hand, it would have been understandable if the Chinese Government had said in effect: We have unilaterally abolished extra-territoriality and therefore Mr. TrongURN will be tried and punished according to the

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It is notified that the name of the Chinese World Tour Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.

lont College grounds were thrown A scale of charges for official ex- open to elementary schoolboys, and aminations by the Colonial Veterin conching provided whenever posary Burgeon is contained in the sible. From the latest report, Gatelle, a Bost which gives a short retrospect of what has been done at Oxford, we learn that these boys have used the College grounds on 4,050 occasions, and have played eighty matches against teams, generally under The first of the inter-Depart fifteen, of Public and Secondary mental lawn bowls matches, will be Bchools. That tho. quality, as well P.W.D. meet the Small Units.

played on Sunday; next, 'when the as the quantity, of the young cricketers thus entered is excellent appears from the fact that ARNOLD His Majesty the King has ap. and BAXEWELL England's first proved the appointment of Hon wicket batsmen in the Lord's Test Mr. C. G. 8. Mackie to be tem- match against New Zealand, were porarily, an Uncficial Member of Oxford elementary boys, who, but the Executive Council in the place for Mr. Tansen happy idea of the Hon. Mir Henry Pollack happily realised, might never have who is temporarily absent from the played cricket at all

Colony

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Messrs. A.S. Watson and Co., The name of Dr Ng Yeok-hoon, Ltd., advertise that all depart Bachelor of Medicine and Burgeryments will be closed to-day. The addert to the list of medical pracing. Dapartment, will be enen for of Hong Kong University, has been Hong Kong Dispensary, Dispens

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A proclamation by H.E. the { Governor orders that the Merchant The Bng at Murray Barrzoks, the Shipping Amendment Ordinance, head quarters, of the South Wales 1931, is to come into operation as Borderers, was flying at half mast from July 31.

yesterday as a mark of respect for General Poton, an ex-commanding dividend of 8100 per cent, has been whose death at Home has just bren It is notified that a first and final: l'officer of the regiment, the news of

declared in the matter cf E. Hing rucolved in the Colony and Company, also known as, 155. Hing Chan and as E. Hing. (In |Liquidation),

According to a report, to the polios by Mr. D. W, Munton, Man. ager of the Chins Light and Among the transfers in the Far Power Company, another transfür- East made by the Secretary of mer has been forcadlopen by State for the Colźnics is that of thieves, thin bring the ono at Mr. T B Holland ABC Wire Chatham Road, from share a vine less Technician, Hong Kong, to electric fusca, valued at 8180, have, Radio Technician, Hong Kong been stolen,