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HỒNG KÔNG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934.

"Road Accidents-Some Psychological EMP. OF BRITAIN KACHEK NOTES

INTERESTING

Factors"

LECTURE BY PROFESSOR L. FORSTER

Rights Of Pedestrians And Drivers.

of

An interesting lecture on Road, first promised not, to be too fast other as she Psychological but somehow or Accidents. Some Factors" was delivered by Profes- could not go against her own na- and the ture, she reached higher sor L. Forster, President

Union higher levels of speed and at the Education Society at the

University. Prof. same time dazzled the pedestrian Assembly Hall,

into acquiescence in her mad career.

Forster sald:

4.

In Great Britain last year over 2,000 persons were killed on the roads by motor cars, and in Amer-from his

suffered persons lea 32,500 same fate. and so it literally true, to say that while the British wehu has slain his thousands his slain hls American brother has tens of thousands. such have

in

at

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same

ich at first sight seemed to be chaotic.

Trafile in England

The English system of traffic has this advantage-when a per- son comes from a side street it is

established that all things being equal he will glance to the right first, and as this is the" direction from which English trafic comes the motorist and the pedestrian will meet it at once face to face. In the last returns published in England, 18 pedestrians were killed who were going the same way as the traffic while only 8 were killed who were

going in the opposite The tendency to glance to the right has value in crossing direction.

the stream of traffic in England

There

ARRIVING

Due to fallure of rice crops last year much rice is being imported into the Kachek región. - Many

Largest Ship East of people say. We have never had

Suez to Pay. Visit

Hong Kong is once again, to receive the largest globe-straler, on March 17, when the Canadian Pactic liner Empress of Britain arrives on her second' world-cruise: By the time she arrives back at Cherbourg-towards the end of May--she will have called at no less thari 33 ports during her four months voyage around the world. and her 450 passengers will have seen more of the countries and peoples of the world than most people can expect to see in a life- time.

"As last year, she is carrying, a runber of prominent personages on the cruise. These include Brig General 8. Loftus Bates; Sir M. M. Burton, chairman of Montague Burton, Ltd., Leeds, and Lady! de Caraman Prince Burton; Chimay, late of the Scots Guards. and Princesse de Caraman Chimay the Earl of Lauderdale, Repre- sentative Peer for Scotland since Hon. Arthur Sauve. 1931, and his son, Visccunt Mait- land; the

of Canada General Postmaster since 1930, and Mme. Sauve; Lady Nicholas and Eckstein; Prince Princess Engailtcheff; and Baronne Stefanie Neuman.

The Ship

The launching of the Empress of Britain on June 11, 1930, by the Frince of Wales at Glasgow, was one of the greatest events in the history of the Canadian Pacific. This fine vessel, which was built by John Brown & Co., Ltd., is the largest steamship to ply between. any to ports of the British Em pire.

Her main dimensions are:----- Length overall, 758 ft.: breadth moulded, 971 ft., depth to B Deck, 60 ft. 9 is.: tonnage, 42,500 tons gross and 63,750 displacement.

She is Atted with quadruple screws, and the propelling machin- ery consists of four sets of single- reduction geared turbines, designed to give a total nominal output of 64.000 shaft horse-power. The Liler installation consists of nine high-pressure oll-fired, water-tube tollers.

to buy rice in our lives until this year." People in Hoihow. and Klungehow depend upon 'sen' rice or imparted

quite gener- but people here com- ally

the taste of plain about the new varieties. The rice comes from Slam, Annam or the mam- land of China For transportation

own country. It is put in gunny. sucks or matting bags and load- ed on cars. A Chevrolet 'seen re- cently at the ferry had rice bags securely tied on engine, running boards, fenders, trunk rack, on the rear seat, the cushion of which was tied up top, and between the seats. The chauffeur said he had on 3,200 cattles a fair load for a touring good car. As long as roads are such loads can be carried, but the wonder is that the cars/stand up under the treatment.

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buring the Chinese twelfth mon- try there was some robbing of cars. The military took' prompt steps to suppress it. posting guards along roads. Suspects were the main

and imprisoned and rounded up we hear that in some cases" tor- ture was resorted to in order to secure confessions: Ne men have been shot outside Kachek. market the past few days for complicity. in auch robberies and for commun- 1st tendencies. Such summary ex- ecution of justice- justice it be- should be a deterrent to those con- templating such hold-ups.

Now the latter 13 recovering fascination and 15 the thinking one more of his rights, and.. is wondering how it was that his wise and great grandfather dealt so effectively with the rall- way while he deals so ineffective- So numerous with the motor car, but when the Rallways were introduced, deaths become America that now the motor car stately and dignified old men had political authority and refused to shares with Tuberculosis the dia allow their habits of Nie to be

of the

ten disturbed. That is why the rail- for the pedestrian at least till he credit of being one

were hedged in by every gets to the middle of the road, by major causes of death. How strik-ways

which time he is probably more ing is the contrast with former manner of restriction and that is

Buch alert than he was before he start- times when the streets were places why some railways are at where citizens met to exchange inconvenient distance from certain ed and therefore in a better post-

tion to take care of himself. It was towns.

In one case a land owner goods as well as gossip.

Another factor which operates here, that children played while refused to permit the view from

beller that the their parents dalled and survey- his house to be changed and would adversely in road traffic is the ed the wares in the shops or sat only tolerate the presence of the ineradicable

viewed the passing line it. It burrowed underground pedestrian has the prior claim to the use of the road, and that the down and scene. Here were galety and life; for half a mile, though there was

motorist can only use it if he does no engineering need for such con-

not wish to do so. This attitude "colour and movement, variety and

of the struction.

is met with in England where charge from the routine

Lord Buckmaster said in the

pedestrians frequently assert this home and here was the latest news

to House of Commons recently that claim in a defiant manner as to be gleaned with which

over in England alone there had been

though daring the motorist to ap- conversatión brighten the

The Rows

proach and harm them two million accidents on the road the dinner table.

was painted some years ago a Chester, the Pantiles in Tunbridge since the war, and in 1932 there

famous picture which is now used Wells, Bond St. and The Fleet had been 338,000 traffic offences country. In

by one of the great" advertising were such places.. The Boulevards committed in the

London 1932 231 children were

Arms, that depicts a beautiful or the Continent with their cafes

lorries.

little girl aged about four cross- abutting on the edge of the road-killed by motor cars or

Haging the road at Piccadilly Circus. way also testify to the character while 10,079 were injured.

while the policeman holds up his of the street life of past centuries: these all occurred in one place at

the busy Mend your ways or prepare your the same time, the country would hand and suspends

have been shocked in the

traffic until the little girl and Injunction which

shocked ways was an

the world was

nurse are safely over. Here we see was issued only when a really im-way as

when the French Railway disaster

the majesty of the law exerted on portant personage

about to was

occurred at Langy where over two

behalf of her majesty the child visit a tow At other times their hundred people were killed. The

and into that picture we project state did not matter very much motorist, however, does not act in ourselves and imagine that on our for they were not used for swift such a spectacular way; he wages behalf also the law can be invoked a sort of guerrila warfare whereby traffle.

to call a halt to the hundreds of he achieves very impressive re- vehicles that are in motion in "sults when we consider his ac-order that we individually_might

tivities over the whole year.

get-across the highway. Just as On the pedestrian's side there in the picture all the drivers and are two contributory factors which chauffeurs are much more con, incerned about the child getting over these accidents-his

safety than they are about getting

their journey, so we along on beileve they ought still more to be concerned with our safety, even if the policeman is not there:

The Knickerbocker Bar Another picture might be drawn showing the anger and impatience of the drivers at being kept back

Her bar, rejoicing under the title by the insignificant and unimpor-of the Knickerbocker Bar, is one tant little person called a Dedes of the few bars known and talked. trian whose adventure upon the

about the world over. Its most in-

During the New Year season regarded B.S téresting feature is the mural de hunting parties were a favourite

corations, which, "drawn by that

form of diversion. Groups of meli something to be discouraged not only because he is risking his own

gifica artist, Heath Robinson, de-

and boys, with dogs, guns, wooden pict, amongst other things, the life but because he is doing some-

manufacture of the cocktail from spears, short knives and nets went

out for what game they could se thing much more serious namely

cherry to finished product.

ctre, Antelops, wild boar, porcu- preventing people in motor cars

Features of the Empress of Brt-pine, civet cats, the so-called fox- and buses. from getting along on their journey.

tain which strike the ere includes and various birds are the us her straight stem raking well for-ual loot. Wild boar are, a menace ward: the cruiser stern; the three to the crops and in certain dis- funnels of pear-shaped section,tricts where they are too preval- down which two double-decker ent the farmers invite hunting buses could drive side by side; the parties in to help get rid of: the two masts, which rise 208 ft. above animals. the load water-line. She has been

The

cause

The Dangerous Ages. The dangerous ages therefore are those before the age of ten and after the age of fifty. These statistics are interesting and signi

cant for they reveal the fact that those who have not yet learned to adjust themselves because of their tender nge to the needs of the

The law does not relieve the

pedestrian of his responsibilities except in certain countries where he is allowed to wear a red band round his arm if he is deaf and in certain street areas in Paris

For cruising in the tropics, she is the most luxuriously comfortable ship yet" designed. The decoration is on an musually lavish and magnificent scale, and the liner is equipped with twe swimming baths (one in the lower part of the ship). for zymnasiums, special children, and, in fact, every con- ventence and luxury that the skill and ingenuity of the ship-designer can provide.

rooms

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Just before the New Year milit- ary were being moved about the One morning a party of country. us took passage on a native car for Holhow. As the car, came to- : wards the east gate of Klungchow City soldiers were seen at the gate with baggage and were also seen to stop a car ahead of us. It was too late for our chauffeur to do any thing, but a new Chevrolet behind us turned around in a great hurry and hustled back towards the fer- ry, several saldiers vainly chasing it. As we waited our turn to see what disposition would be made of us, and while the passengers in the car ahead were being unloaded bag a chauffeur with and baggage, whom I had been talking as our cars werd at the ferry walked non- chalantly past, carrying a small bag, and looking as if he had never seen A Car. His passengers were probably proceeding towards the port in rickshas or on foot, his ear hidden in some village several miles away, and he going to Hoi- how to drum up passengers and freight for the return trip, to be loaded when it was safe. The of- ficer in charge of catching cars saw us, saluted, put four soldiers to escort on the running boards the car back when we were all un- loaded-and let us go on to our destination. The car men hate to carry soldiers as they have to go of out-of-the-way places, and are only pald half fare.

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All this is now changed, the old easy going slow movement of the streets has been transformed. Not three but thirty miles an hour is the new tempo of Ute and so the streets have ceased to be places in which, people saunter, for even ability to adjust or adapt himself new wher, the pedestrian is safely on to the requirements of the

rust conditions on the roads and also the pavement, he feels he

the in- the belie! that while there he has not loiter, so strong is Duence of the rapidly moving the chief claim to consideration. traffic about him.

present He believes that as a road user he situation however is not withofit has privileges but no duties.

The statistics recently published its parallel in past years. At the recent meeting of the British As-In England covering a period of sociation held in Leicester. Bir six months in 1932 give the follow- Josiah Stamp quoted a long passing facts:

491 children under ten were kul-roadway should be age from a book published in the 18th Century in which the writer ed and formed 31 per cent of the In total, 153 persons were killed whose denounced in very violent guage the insolence and wicked- ages lay between 10 and 31. 172 ness of those in charge of horse who were between 31 and 51, while drawn vehicles who not only made 765 of those who were killed were the streets most dangerous by over 51 and formed 48.4 per cent

and of the whole.. day but sta more perilous hideous by night because of their Accidents he reckless driving. said were occurring which ought certainly to be avoided, but the and drivers were not controlled disciplined while using the road nor were they severely punished

where the pedestrian has the prior claim over the motoris, who, how-" as they ought to be by the ma gistrates when they

found

ever, is not excluded.

Linked up with this claim or

Schools are re-opening after the

gulity of these outrages. The re-

the government schools, and the re- suit of all this was, he continued, traffic, and those who cannot do English bellef in the pedestrian's

New Year vacation. Theoretically the road, is, the

gistered private schools were sup- that men, women and children so because of their advanced age, prior right to

posed to be in session all during were no longer able to use the form between them 80 per cent of sturdy individualism of the Eng-

the holiday. "Practically, the few streets and enjoy the amenities the total Those who are beyond the Ishman which is always strongest

pupils who had registered for the Those who are less no longer age of fity grew up at a time when when his rights are challenged or

new term after the mid-semester safe there. In other words, that horses were the fastest moving threatened.

Starting out from New York on vacation"brought requests for lea objects on the highway. It was to assertive of their privileges and Is "by the substitution of *motor

that situation they learned to are more docile and ready to con- ear for horse-drawn vehicle' we

so that form to new demands made upon January 4, she called at Madeira,ve of absence from their parents, adapt their movements,

them are more likely to survive Gibraltar, Algiers, Monaco, Naples, which the school authorities were have here an indictment the set-

and this again is borne out by Athens, Halla, Port Sald. Bombay, glad to grant, and with no pupils erity of which would do credit to when they come to a new situation which requires a more rapid, co- those who are in charge of the

rdination of eye, ear, and limb. statistics collected by Gemelli and Colombo, Penang. Singapore, and on hand teachers could enjoy, the Batavia holiday too. It seems a pity thiet pedestrian's cause to-day.

they find it difficult to eliminate Ponzo who have made a careful Bangkok (Paknam),

Semarang, the government should try to do All this merely proves that we

the old habit of leisurely response study of motor accidents and their (Tandjong Priok),

causes in Europe. The number of Padang Bay (Bali) Zamboanga, away with China's one real uni- are by nature conservative in our

and substitute the quicker, move-

The slower reaction is of motor accidents in London, they Manila, prior to coming here. versal holiday period, and its at ways and that we find it difficult

ment. to adjust our behaviour to any course also due to falling physical assert, due to the pedestrian's in-She will then proceed to Bhanghai tempts are not likely to succeed

the regulations and is due at Woosung on March very soon. new invention which demands powers and less rapid perception difference to

the older habits acquired governing the use of the road is 23. that we must alten it. The horse, but however, was finally, we presume, earlier tend to persist, and so re- 50 per cent, of the whele, whereas incorporated into the social sche- tard movements that would other-in Berlin only 20 per cent, and in me, but when the railway came wise be effective. By the age of New York 30 per cent. of the ac

con- twenty five it is said that we be- cldents are attributed to the fault along it was ordered to be

to a rife of of the pedestrian from which we ared to its own private road care-gin to settle down- fully railed off, provided with routine and take on that mental can conclude that the English per- signals and level crossings at attitude which clings to us after-son is highly individualised and York on May 14, and Cherbourg which persons were. specially de- wards. Those who are now fifty conservative, the Berliner amen- and Southampton on May 21, talled to operate the gates. When years of age, possess a set of habita able to rules and regulations and tram cars brought new ideas of which handicap them in their ef- the New York citizer, more alert

of life for they were

were

in

commission ever since May, 1931, and an estimate of her gigan fact that if she were any larger tic size may be formed from the would be impossible for her to pass through the Suez Canal.

Her Voyage

She sails at midnight the same day for Chinwangtao, calling there- after at Beppu, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Los Angeles (San Pedro), Balboa, Cris tobal, and Havana, arriving at New

speed into the city, they had to forts to cope with a road situation } dad qulék to adjust himself to the not walk along two sides of a

is ten demands made upon him. In which the movement

be provided with emergency brakes and

they were forbidden to move on

times faster than that to which

Cause of Accidents

The members of the Hainan Mis: sion of the American Presbyterian Church gathered jin Nodon Febru ary 12th to 15th for their third an- nus! devotional conference. The Mission, Hong Kong, was the spea- Rey. Frank Short of the London ker, and Mrs. Short added much to the pleasure of the meetings with her music. Mr. Short took as his general tople "The Kenbals right-angled triangle if he can of Christ and gave a number of proceed along the hypotenuse. very stimulating and thought-pro- cow catchers, and they became adjusted This per- The most fertile caues of ac- The law does not prevent this and voking addresses, which were much their own track at more than 15/sistence of acquired hábits in cir- cidents is probably the practice of the street is not hedged in in appreciated. Mr. and Mrs. Short cumstances, which demand some crossing the road diagonally such a way as to prevent it either, arrived in Holhow February 10th, miles per hour. So far the pedes thing different is clearly marked instead of at right angles. If we and so long as these two condi- and Mr. Short very kindly consent trian had been able to assert his

When the English pedestrian assume that every pedestrian is tions hold, men will take the risked to have an English service för right to the use of the road. ... crosses to the Continent and finds sous to economise his physical as they have taken it before and the foreign community in Hothow of the himself confronted with a rules effort by taking the shortest dis always altempt to make such a the 11th. On the 18th he preached With the introduction light moving motor car which by that contradict those he has tance between two Dots Just a crossing Such a saving of time in the Kachek church. He and its graceful appearance, ellent learned. However intelligent he the motorist'e sim to economise and short will appeal very strong Mrs. motion and mystical power has may be, he finds it extremely dif- in time by proceeding at the ly to a tired workman at the end added, in some ways, a new beauty feult to learn the new pattern and highest possible speed compatible of a weary day, to anyone carry to Atreet life, the pedestrian's do- act according to it for the old with his own security then we ing a heavy load, and to everyone

on a hot day. mination of the road disappeared. idea persists and he feels its shall find that every, naividual He yielded to the seductive grievance that he should be call-a-potential jay Walker. charms of the newcomer, who ated upon to conform to some thing is as lazy as he dare be and will

Everyöns

(To be continued (o-morrow),

Bhört werd able in their short stay in the island to see the four stations of the muiston, and to get a fairly general idea of the camilly in the nothern part of the

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