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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24,

to the nauseating conditions of their life?

·DAY BY DAY.

No human characteristic is more. universal than the desire to oyade responsibility and then to justify the evasion. The supposed physi cal abnormality of some people is

often made an excuse for the re- fusal to admit that their situation

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DEATH.

BARCLAY-On Saturday, August 20th, 1927, at Greenock, Alex- ander Walters Barclay, aged 35 years, Chief Engineer, Indo-China S.N. Co., Ltd. Re- sult of an accident.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

1927.

LARCÈNY OF GASOLENE.

TWO FINS FOUND ON THE

SEA-SHORE.

The Very Idea!

Mrs. Smilth found herself for the first time without a cook. She had paid the highest wages

It having been established that and suffered patiently from the the two tins of gasolene, which carelessnesa and caprices of

retrieved from the

sen. cooks. typhoon on Sunday, were part of with her own fair hands shore by a Chinese after the After preparing several meals and gaining confidence in the art, sha approached her husband with a brilliant proposition.

The quarantine restrictions im-were

gon on account of cholera have been removed.

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Mrs. D. F. Lambert has reported to the police the theft of $125 worth of jewellery from her room at the Kingsclere Hotel, Kowloon.

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medied. Mankind seenis glad to

the consignment belonging to the attribute the suicide's uncomfort-

Man Wo Co. of No. 2, Mallory Street, which was lost during the able preference for death to men-

heavy winds, the Chinese who "What do you say, dear," she tal unsoundness rather than to the

was originally charged before Mr. began, if we do without a cook poignant misery of his life, and,

W. Schofield on Monday with and I keep the money for my being in unlawful possession of very self? Suppose I cook for precisely because the actual pre-

two tins of gasolene, was brought ona month, what shall I get?". ference is so disconcerting to the The German Consul, Dr. Wag before the Magistrate again this "Well," replied the brute of a majority, to place upon it a legalner, will leave to-morrow by the morning when the charge was husband, "by the end of one month

s.a. Hector for Shanghai and the altered to one of larceny.

you will get one of those long crepe veto, and to hurden the individual northern ports on leave of ab- The defendant repeated his plen veils." . with prohibitions surviving from an sonce. He expects to be away that he had found the tins on the

seashore. age of violence in which murders just over one month.

Sub-Inspector Pain, who pro-a taxicab, and said to the man. A very nervous old lady hailed were so frequent that suicide in Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been secuted on behalf of the Police. "Now please drive very carefully.. addition rendered the detection of advised by cable thit the Baubinformed his Worship that since Don't go on until the policeman the murderer a task too complicut Australian Gold Miring Co. Ltd. this prosecution, there had been waves, and when he holds out his has declared a dividend of 5 per from the sea-shore at Hunghom, don't go fast until there is a

six cases of gasolene retrieved arm, ed for the police. In the official cent. (about 47 cents per share) These were also part of the cargo clear stretch of road before you," to stop. And mind the taking of human life bg-payable on the 30th Sept.

from the junk which foundered in comes a taboo, and since this taboo

"Very good, mum," said the Causeway Bay during the typhoon.driver." "and if there's an acci is based not upon reason and

three weeks' hard labour,

The defendant was sentenced to dent, is there any partic'lar examination but upon tradition, no

ospital you'd care ter go ter?" distinction in the type of death may be permitted. It is enough that life has been taken; the ncces- sity for social recrimination, is equally urgent, whether the de- stroyer be the dead man himself

or another,

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Lal Piu, arrested yesterday in Queen's Road West with 28 taels of illicit oplum strapped round his legs, was fined $3,000, or Six on appearance before Mr. R. E. months hard labour, in default,

Lindsell this morning.

BABY'S DEATH,

BODY.

remember

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A woman who was referred to. the woman missionary at Willes- den asked: Can I have a sum- mens for a medical examination?

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have

Mr. J. D. Cassels, K.C.: A boy who has never shed a few tears of the Sanitary Department, a it is to live.

Prosecuted by the Assistant Head at school has never known what Chinese boatswain was charged before Mr. W. Schofield, at the never found my wife out in tell-

Hackney husband: Kowloon Magistracy, this morning, ing lies; I cannot see that. I with removing the dead body of a should gain anything if I did. two months' old baby without the sanction of the proper authorities. afford

Willesderi woman:

cannot a lawyer, so I asked The defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. R. A. D. Forrest( A. H. S. for me.

young solicitor to write to him D.), informed his Worship that the chitis and was not as serious as that able to spend all learn and four

Kingsland debtor on case was one of death from bron "means" I have a wife who is his

of an infectious disease. Mr. For-children who grow out of their rest pointed out, however, the seri- clothes in a month. ousness of removing dead bodies without a burial order.

Lt. Col. Riley, of the Royal ILLEGAL REMOVAL OF DEAD I feel so IlI. racks, has reported to, the police Army Pay Corps, Victoria Bar- that an office coolie is missing Social recrimination, when the after having cashed two cheques destroyer has succeeded in anni-at the Hongkong and Shanghai for an amount altogether of $70, hilating himself, takes the form Bank. of banishing him from the respect able society of the dead, which for sul General, was among those who Mr. M. J. Quist, the Dutch Con- some unknown reason is consider-left by the s.8. Empress of Rus- ed much more desirable than the sia this morning. There was a respectable society of the living.community at the pier to see him good attendance of the Dutch WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 1927. Hence we regard as merciful the off, and

several of the leading coroner who passes upon the body residents. of the suicide a verdict which PROBLEM OF SUICIDES. implies that he was infit, when left the Kowloon pier this morn- Just before the 11.10 a.m. ferry alive, to associate with his fellowing a Chinese woman, with bound It is inevitable that among the men. We prefer to think of our between the boat and the wharf, feet, missed her footing and fell many thousands of poor Chinese dead friend as

a lunatic, rather One of the seamen let himself in this Colony and elsewhere there than as a sane being who decided down into the water and rescued should be frequent cases of sui-that life as he lived it was more

the woman. cide, simply by reason of the fact trouble than it was worth. that the cares and trials of life remain at the same time singularly bred of abject poverty and the ab- unperturbed by the paradoxical sence of all hope must often make fact that his status of lunacy was attractive the preference of death acquired owing to the success of over the poignant miseries of life. his attempt, and that his survival We are constrained to comment would probably have brought him,

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Worship informed the defendant instruction in history, and had In imposing a fine of $25, his The class had been getting

infectious disease he (the defend- Mary, Queen of Scots, who, that if the baby had died from an been dealing with, the life of ant) would have been more, severely the teacher explained, had been dealt with.

beheaded.

Booking is now open for the "Our Cabaret" shows which are to be given in the Theatre Royal day. This bright party achieved on Thursday, Friday and Satur- great popularity in Kowloon and folk on this side of the harbour will doubtless accord good sup- port to such a proved band of en-pil,

TYPHOON'S TOLL.

VALUABLE OIL SHIPMENT LOST.

A valuable shipment of kerosin amounting to 1641 cases was last overboard from six lighters during the typhoon..

"When I say beheaded," she said, "what do I mean?"

No answer.

"The word simply means any one's head being cut off. Now, can any boy or girl give another- word having the same meaning?"

"Defeated,"

came from the dunce of the class. "Having your feet cut off."

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Wife Was Mrs. De Style, in

Partly."

On their way to the Standard her new gown when you saw Oil Company's installation at Lai- her?" chikok, the lighters were compelled Husband from the storm, and the master of to run into Tsin Wan for shelter

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on the remarkable fact that prae- not medical attention as an idiot,tertainers, tically all suicides here and else but legal punishment as where are attributed to unsound-criminal. A judicial system which ness of mind, because of a very exhaustively considers all possible them to enter the region of opera- motives for the murder of another everywhere that one goes are to be undetected. Practically thought-provoking article lately

is thus content in the case of self-seen the stumps of recently fell-one of these has since reported world, and certainly the happiest. appearing in the Nation: The

am the luckiest boy in the murder with the most cursory

ed trees, or the actual branches to the police the loss of a great-"Bobby" Jones. writer first narrated the story of a examination of such motives. A yet had time to remove. There nearly $7,000.

which the wood-cutters have not deal of the cargo, amounting to young widow, living apart from

Boys should exercise them- her husband, who shot herself and

tired and busy coroner, hastily was a tightening-up of the efforts

selves and use the motor ear as rules that the deceased was of of forest guards a while back, and occurring at Taipo, the police have Meggitt.

In addition to other wreckage sparingly as possible. Mr. J. C. her baby daughter in a Maryle unsound mind or guilty, of jela de the police magistrates co-operated | received a report that six"fishing

by imposing heavier fines. some time now there has been no instance of prosecution

bone flat, and then went on to ask whether a particularly poign-

Be The verdict is received in the one instance with pity and in the

For junks were destroyed.

Four houses and one wooden for the shed were wrecked at Sha Tau

ant letter she left behind was the other with horror, and even those offence of illegal tree felling, and Kok Village.

ago.

EXCHANGE RATES.

letter of a maniac or of one who most deeply concerned seldom offence is not so pronounced now it is to be presumed that the sc vividly understood and dread trouble to ask themselves why, if as it was

a few months ed the realisms of life as to make the deceased was insane, he be- Whatever the actual facts, we feat. her strong enough to face the ai-

came so, and why, if he was not, ed, despite the vigilance of the sure that many cases go undetect- ternative? Of course! the West his problems should have appeared guards, who are London Coroner and his jury r

up against a to him so insoluble that death whole villages take part.

well-organized

Paris system in which turned a verdict of "suicide dur-itself was preferable to their pro-claration of an entire

Brussela The de Amsterdam ing temporary insanity" because, longed contemplation. We even woodland as a prohibited region, Copenhagen

area of Berlin in the words of the writer of the fail to realize that the very insani-whereby nobody will be allowed Vienna urticle, "they believed, with the majority of juries, that, a legal fiction is more merciful both to society and to the individual than

ty which society so readily accepts as a sedative atonement for the offence against itself, is frequently but a later stage of the first

tract decided upon as a preserve, Lisbon to enter the defined limits of the Helsingfors is the best remedy for this con-

Bucharest stant circumvention of the ends

Buenos Aires that the prohibition under the pro-New York of justice. It is also to be noted

Shanghai Yokohama, a stark, acknowledgment of the gloomy alternative between death posed Ordinance automatically Geneva cruelty of life " The writer, went and madness. The deliberate renders the areas in quesilon game Milan on to say that there has of late suicide often differs from the wild life of all kinds, as well as Osto

preserves, and sanctuaries for Stockholms been much questioning of the so desperate manine only in choosing a preserve for botanical rarities, Prague. cial validity of such so-called a rational departure which will be which ruthless persons are inclin Madrid "merciful" verdicts. In the past condemned, instead of waiting fored to uproot to the extent of ex- Athens

termination, Besides the ordia- the stigma of insunity has ap the inevitable violent plunge into ary advantages of having well Hongkong

Bombay parently been less offensive to the oblivion which will be condoned. wooded regions on the island and Silver (spot and bercaved, and less disconcerting The thought one is left with at mainland, there is the necessity to the police, than the admission the end of contemplating the mat and pretty plants, especially some to preserve many species of birds that cach man is a responsible

ter is that a detailed examination of the wild orchids, which are a master of the keys of life and of of the motives of suicides whom delight to the naturalist. The death, which he may use according it is too late to save is more likely indiscriminate barring of. ac-

cess to certain areas, as it, hap- to the dictates of his own con- to lead to the rescue of civilian-pens, means a prohibition against science. But do we serve either tion's future victims than in the ourselves or the community by passing of "merciful" verdicts.

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It is hardly ever been known in criminology that a good man ever saved a bad woman.--Mr. Rhys Davies.

When the Socialists went tour- ing the country with, a burst of indignation, not even a dog bark- ed. Mr..Churchill.

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Rabbi Levine tells the story of how A certain minister went to preach in a Scotch church in New York. The elders of the 20.42% church cautioned him that he 18.15 must not preach against drink, .34.50% because leading members of the 192.15/16 congregation were brewers, nor .2.15/32 against dancing, because they held 790 dances, nor against this, and that, 47.29/32 and the other evil, because it

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would offend members of the 4.86 5/32 flock. The list of interdicted 26.22 subjects grew so long that at last .894 the exasperated preacher said: 18.11 "It would save time if you will 18.69 tell me what I am to preach about." ..164 The elders looked at one another, 28.78% and then one said: "You can 372 pitch it into the Jews hot and. 5,27/82 strong; we have hone of them in .1/5.18/10 forward)...25.8/10 added

.1/11/1/16 this congregation." The Rabbi dryly: "My nationality does come in convenient at times."

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---British Wireloan.

NEW CHINESE DELEGATE.

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Sentence of three years' penal servitude and five years' proven- tive detention was passed by the Common Serjeant at the Central |Criminal Court, on May Doucett, 42, who was convicted of obtain- the rambler, or nature student, whose last thought would be to

ing goods by false pretences from destroy anything he found to de,

tradesmen at Barnes and of being light. the senses, so perhaps some

a habitual criminal. Mr. H. T. The Cabinet has appointed Mr. Wright prosecuted. The woman provision will be made for bona Wang Chin-chi, to be Minister to refused to plead, and on the Belgium and the Chinese delegate direction of the Judge a plea of to the League of Nations. Reuter. "Not Guilty was

A PEKING APPOINTMENT,

Peking, Aug, 23.

entered..

this insistent pretence that life is so pleasant that a breakdown of

Preserving Our Trees. reason is alone responsible for the

fide naturalists, who would be un- There should be genoral.com- der honour bound not to interfere most desperate of acts? Shall we mendation of the attitude taken up with the objects of the new re- ever find a sufficient number of by the Government in introducing gulations. It happens that only

Throughout the hearing Doucett refused either to make a state- disinterested explorers to proba Colony's trees from indiscriminate included in the Ordinance, but we frequently out on route marches in Evidence was given of 16 previous

a Bill designed to preserve the limited areas are at present to he

The Welch Regiment, which is ment or to question witnesses.. and investigate the dark corners fellere. The proposed measure, hope that the time is coming when Kowloon, were out again this morn-convictions against the prisoner, of what we call society, until we which we gave in full in a recent most of the wooded areas will be ing, and attracted the usual inter- going back to 1917, On hearing admit that there may be sane and issue, sets out the well-known fact barred similarly, to vanduls of all est of residents who are never tired the sentence the prisoner scream reasonable beings who deliberate implements

that wood-stealers conceal their kinda, or at least given better pro- of watching troops go by to the ed abuse at the Judge, who re- in plantations, BO tection than they hitherto have spirited strains of a regimental marked that she seemed to have ly decide that death is preferable that it is an easy matter for had,

march.

found her voice at last.