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WEDNESDAY,

AUGUST 17, 1927.

SHANGHAI'S SHERLOCK A SCHOOL OF WISDOM. LONGEST NON-STOP

HOLMES.

FINGER-PRINT SYSTEM.

A SUCCESS.

many

DARMSTADT'S SIGNIFICANT

SCHEME

Keyserling,

.Count Hermann the well-known philosopher, writes to the Continental press:

TRAIN RUN.

NEWCASTLE MAYOR WEL- COMES THE DRIVER,

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"One of the world's authorities

London, July 15. The world's longest non-stop on Oriental criminal psychology,

Just as the idiosyncrasy of railway run-London to Newcastle Mr. William Armstrong, Director of Criminal Intelligence of the every living thing and of every a distance of 268 miles-wis az- Shanghai Muncipal Counell; has work of art consists in the fact that complished yesterday by the L.N. retired after 30 years' police ser-elements identical per se are given E.R.'s Pacific engine "Flying vice in China," writes the Daily special and unique form, so do Fox."

the various epochs of culture dif Another notable run yesterday Mail, on July 8, on arrival of Mr. fer, not in their content, but in the was that of the Royal Scot, the Armstrong in London..

The article further states that special adjustment of their funda-new L.M.S. train, from Euston to mental and unchanging mental Glasgow, the first stop being the modern police and crime de- elements; for the qualitative dis- Carnforth, 236 miles. tection methods Introduced dur-tinction appearing from case to

"Flying Fox" left King's Cross ing Mr. Armstrong's service have case, in these elements depends at 9.30 a.m. and steamed Into torn the romantie veil from just upon the special meaning Newcastle Central Station dend Oriental crime, the theme of so which animates the feets; in all on time at 3.20 p.m., the journey intangible mysteries by spheres of life, it is the meaning of 268 miles having taken 54% novelists. The finger-print sys-that creates the actualities, not hours, tem has proved very successful | vice versa.

As the driver of the "great on- and the modern Chinese criminal

Thus, the significance of the gino. Mr. Albert Pibworth, of 247 knows he is doomed to capture, Christianizing of the western Belitha-villas, Barnsbury, N. 1. Mr Armstrong believes, that few world lay, far less in the fact that stepped from the cab at New- Chinese criminals are proof a new faith had become prevalent, castle he was welcomed by the against Western criminological than in the fact that a new funda- Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Coun

mental psychological attitude rcillor Lambert), members of the. Mr. Armstrong was connected i placed that of the ancients corporation, and representatives with one of the strangest cases of Whereas the ancients were. self- of public bodies, but the words of Chinese crime on record. Some contained, the Christians felt welcome must have been drown- years ago à Chinese was found on themselves rationally satisfieded by the cheers of the huge the river bank at Shanghai with only when devoted to a higher be crowd that had assembled on the his eyes torn from his head and in which existed outside them-platform. placed in a rice bowl besides him.selves. Whereas the ancients up- The man was a member of a gangpear, before all things, to be deter- of river pirates and thieves and mined by the intellect, with the who had been suspected of giving Christians, the emphasis was information to the police regard-placed upon the soul. Conform ing the gang's secret under-ably herewith, a new hierarchy of ground hiding-place.

values assumed control.

methods.

meti-

A telegram was handed to Mr. Pibworth from Sir Ralph Wedge- wood, general manager of the L.N.E.R., congratulating him on the performance, and concluding, "Well done."

pulled 293 tons the whole jour

Used nearly 5 tons of ney. coal. Used thousands of gal- lons of water. Observéd 700 signals. Picked up water from the truck 5 times.

On her record-making perform- Instead of killing him they tore In the Renaissance and Re-ance "Flying Fox." out his eyes, left them in the rice formation periods, nay, at bottom bowl and told him that "he could even among the great thinkers.of still have his "eyes to show the the lace-Gothic age, a new police where the piratos head- morphosis began in the psychical quarters were." The gang were organism of the western world. eventually caught and executed. The accent of significance gravita-1 In addition to criminal workted from the soul back to the in- Mr. Armstrong has been respon-tellect: a new masculine phase ofed down to h speed of 15 miles an sible for political intelligence of history dawned in Europe. But as hour, and reached a maximum vital importance to the security the transition was a gradual, one, speed of 85 miles.

At some points the train slow-

of a big foreign centre like only few people were aware of A passenger in the train said

Shanghai..

ILLEGAL TAXES.

the meaning of the change. There that from York to Newcastle the occurred, at the turn of this ren- engine seemed to gather speed tury, something similar; it was as every mile, and it was the most though slowly beating, water haithrilling part of the run. reached the last degree before With a new crew the "Flying boiling-point and was about to Fox" continued the journey to change its form and become steam. Edinburgh,

The Royal Scot, drawn by two JAPANESE COTTON MILLS TO All at once, the previous condi

CLOSE.

tion appoured out of date. Hence, engines, left Euston at 10 am, and the destructive forces of the soul reached Glasgow at 6,8

The results, seven minutes ahead of time." became dominant,

the visible far and wide, were

Regarding the postponement of Nanking's tax scheme, Reuter makes the reservation that prob ably the 24 per cent. surtax tacitly agreed to at the Washing

p.in.

Great War and the world revolu- Consequently, I have entitled my third.main tion-not conjured up by mala-recently published droit statemen, and not, in them work Wiedergeburt" (Rebirth) ton Conference will not be post-elves, unaverted events, but hap-from time to time, humanity must penings of cosmic, fatal signifi- be reborn of the spirit, that it poned.

may continue to live.

paper.

Huge Sum Yearly.

cance.

Work From Within.

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Japanese-owned cotton mills in Shanghai, nine in number; will close on September 1, as a protest against the 12% per cent. tax on Since those events, people have manufactured goods, imposed by been trying to get the world into the Nanking Nationalist Govern-order again by approaching the ment and effective on September task from outside. This cannot 1, according to A statement be done, because the outward published in a Japanese news-chaos is merely a phenomenon pro- duced by a crisis in the mind of The closing of the Japanese humanity. As I have shown in mills, it is asserted, will throw my works Schopferische Erkennt- approximately 60,000 persona cut nis" and "Die neuentstehande of work, the enforced idleness of Welt." the crux of the problem lies whom would prove R serious in the fact that the accent of monnee to peace and good order significance has passed from the in Shanghai. It is further stated intransferable to the transferable that the tax, termed illegal, will in the soul of man, so that all so result in the closing of many lutions hitherto valid have phy Chinese mills, both flour and siologically lost their validity. cotton, as well as other industrial Hence, a readjustment of all ques- plants!

tions, all problems and all solu- Two delegates have been chosentions has become requisite. If by the Japanese Millowners' As the present chacs is to blossom in- new eivilization. this ra- sociation and the local Japanese to a Chamber of Commerce to proceed adjustment must be principally to Japan for the purpose of just as railica! as that which toolt officially protesting to the Japan-place when the Christian era su- ese Government against the tax,perseded the antique. Nothing but and alao to bring the matter to the such a readjustment can save hy- attention of the Japanese public. manity from continually lacerat

ing and disintegrating itself.

We now come to a definition of The imposition of the tax, it is the purpose of the "School of set forth, will mean that the Wisdom". Here we are concerned Japanese millowners will have to only in the very last place, with pay a total of Tls. 10,000,000 per the tiny, actually existing, in- annum into the coffers of the lellectual centre at Darmstadt. Nanking Nationalist Government. It is, in the first degree, a question The millowners have no intention, of the symbol and the radiator of it is stated, of paying this illegal just this new adjustment, of an tax and will strongly oppose it, adjustment which, expressed presenting a united front of all the terminology of the Christian owners of Japanese cotton mills myth, is adopted to the age of the in this city, as well as having the Holy Ghost in contradistinction to the Son. The School of Wisdom full support of the Japanese does not teach, or aim at teaching, Chamber of Commerce, the Japan-anything new in content-scienti- ese press and other Japanese, in-fically understood; it does

thing incomparatively muré impo tant, inasmuch as it gives to the problems of life a new form adapt- As regards "It is necessary to ulter a worded to the present age. of "warning," said Mr. Neville the fundamental problems, it does Chamberlain, Minister of Health, so by means of the great congres- at the opening of the National ses at Darmstadt. It does 50 on Conference on Maternity and In a small scale in every publication, every fant Welfare, and to say that in every lecture, nay, in the results of artificial light treat-studental conservation. And, tha. ment are not yet so certain-the it really does thereby provid risks of improper application of something of which humanity is in the treatment are not so trifling need, seems to me to be proved that we can afford to plunge into by the fact that it imparts ta the treatment without some know impulso everywhere in equal men- ledge. When it is given in the sure and with equal force. proper department of a hospital, In Spain, in France and Italy, we know we are all right I do and, more recently, in Hungary, not want to say that it should be Rumania and Turkey, its doctrine strictly confined to hospitals, found quite as 'full recognition as but I have thought it necessary, ever it has done in Germany. where I had authority to do so, And so, I hope, it will be in the to insist that where artificial light United States, where I expect to treatment is employed in an in- to stay from January to May in fant welfare centre there shall 1928. A readjustment of life la, be responsible for it a medical in critical, times, the one thing officer specially trained and a needful everywhere; for readjust nurse who has suitable experi-mont means rejuvenation and, ence of the work.".

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