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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

OUR UNIVERSITY TRAFFIC CASES IN BRITISH ATTITUDE

DEFENDED.

MR HORNELL ANSWERS THE CRITICS.

NUMBER OF STUDENTS A RECORD.

MAKES WIDER APPEAL.

COURT.

TO CHINESE.

EUROPEAN LADY PROSECUTES SOME EXAGGERATIONS

DRIVER.

RECKLESS DRIVING.

A number of traffic cases, in which Europeans were concerned, were heard before Major C. Will Bon this morning.

It is disclosed in the annual re- port of the University of Hong kong that the past year closed with an increase in the number of students of 327, which is a record.the car.. Of these, 37 are women.

The First M.A.'

Lady's Evidence.

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REFUTED.

OUTSPOKEN RETORT TO HOME CORRESPONDENT.

REAL FRIENDSHIP.

TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928.

ATTEMPTED GAOL ESCAPE.

PRISONER CAUGHT IN THE COMPOUND.

SENTENCED TO-DAY.

Charged To-day.

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TRAINING CHINESE ENGINEERS.

MECHANICAL BENT NECESSARY.

HONGKONG UNIVERSITY & THE APPRENTICE QUESTION.

MR. HORNELL'S VIEWS.

The question as to whether

can be regarded as an equivalent. training in a University workshop to apprenticeship in a commercial worsen to referred to in the annual report of the University of Hongkong by the Vice-Chancellor.

1

The report states:-There wore

54 students on the rolls of the Faculty of Engineering on the 31st December,

1927. of the 10 students who passed out of the Faculty In 1927, aix graduated in. Civil engineering, two in Mechant- cal Engneering, and two in Electri enl Egineering.

The Apprenticeship Question. The lack of students in the Electrical bran- Mechanical and chea is to be deplored, and the difficulty of the altuntion is aggra- vated by the conviction of possible employers, such as the Talkeo and Kowloon Dock Companies, that on- however graduates

It is not generally known that, following the recent successtil. escape effected by a convict from Vistoria Gaol, another attempt was rande by a second prisoner to break Mrs. N. White, who, as reported

out of confinement. It is stated some time age, was knocked down

Sir Edward Pearce, Mr. E. F. that he had all but succeeded when and seriously injured by a public car in Queen's Road East, appear- Mackay, Mr. A. Brooke Smith and he was discovered by a warder and od to substantiate a charge of reck Mr. H. G. Simms, former members again placed in custody. less driving against the driver of of the Shanghai Municinal Council This latest incident concerning and of the Committee of the Shang- the Gaol is stated to have occurred It was stated that the delay hat British Chamber of Commerce, on April 25th last, when Mr. W. W. Hornell, the Vice-caused to the proceedings was due make a joint. reply in a recent issue prisoner, who was serving a sen-Mr. W. W. Hornell.

of The New Statesman to a corres-tence of six weeks for larceny, Chancellor, in the course of his to dificulty in locating the defen-pondent who wrote to that journal made a hole through the wall of report answers in a spirited man-dant.

regarding the attitude of Britishers his cell and had actually got down ner, the critics of the University, On the man's stating that he was in China towards the Chinese. to the compound with only a high wall between him and freedom be- pointing out that the total cost going along at a speed of undor Their letter, is as follows: to the taxpayer of Hongkong is ten miles an hour before the oc-

In your issue of March 17 a cor-fore he was seen and pounced up £5,000 a year, which is less than currence of the accident, state- respondent in China, signing him-on by a warder. ten per cent of the University's ment which was construed as self "J. D.," gives his impression. total annual expenditure.

pien of not guilty evidence was of the attitude of the English to proceeded with.

wards the Chinese among whom No mention of the attempted Of 204 students on the rolls on

He anticipates that escape had hitherto appeared in they live. what he writes may seem a gross any official reports made available December 31st last, 15 were exter- nal studenta. They were

dla-

Mrs. White said that on the exaggeration to anyone who has to the Press, and but for the tributed as follows:-Faculty of morning of Good Friday, she was not been in China. To those who formal production of the prisoner Medicine, 160; Faculty of En- leaving her home to get a tram to have been in Chinu it certainly is. before the Magistrate this morning and lile being charged with the gineering, 54; Faculty of Arts, 90. ceme up to town. She had pro-

"Class" Suggestion Refuted. Forty-three students graduated ceeded as far as the Wanchai

offence, it is probable that the at the end of 1927-17 in the Me- Pest Odlce, when two cara wero He begins by describing the occurence would have received no dical Faculty, 10 in Engineering seen to make for the direction of average Englishman going out to publicity.

As she stopped to China as a person with the one and 16 in Arts. Mr. Harry Hong the racecourge.

It would appear, from the state-gineering Sling has the distinction of being let them pass, she was knocked idea of making his pile and return-ments made in Court, that the man the first M.A. of the University. down without any warning by any home with enough money and was serving a acntence of six In his report on the thesis aub-third ear going in the opposite influence to put him in a class weeks, and was being accommodat mitted by Mr. Harry Hong Sling direction. She did not remember above the one he would have been ed in a cell in the older part of for his degree, Dr. L. G. Stamp, anything after that, until she was in if he had gone into business in the prison. On April 25th, in the

She had been

his own country.". D." appears early morning, he commenced to Sir Ernest Cassell Reader in the lifted into a car. University-of-London, wrote as ander medical treatment since.

to be an outstanding example of dig into the wall of a cell whore an follows am of the opinion The auramona was adjourned for

a type of person obscased with a old ventilator used to be, employ that the thesis. on the Economic the defendant to call a witness

feeling of class inferiority, and ing for this work an iron imple- effect of Trans-Pacific Policies in

locke with a jealous, eye on those ment which he had managed to imposition and they would welcome an Motor Cyclist Charged. easily up to the standard required

enjoying a society from which he provise and concaal in his cloth arrangement which would make an adequate period of satisfactory for the thesis of degree of M.A. Mr. G. W. Cooper, of the Dairy is for some reason barred. Itine

work in a commercial workshop an of the University of London," · Farm, was summoned for driving must be admitted that the average:

integral part of the University's his motor-cycle in a dangerous Englishman goes out to China to The total income for the year manner. Hu pleaded not guilty. make money, but we refute the! He made a bole large enough to mechanical and electrical engineer ing curriculum. But there are amounted to $529,387.70; this sum Traffic Sergeant Biker deposed class suggestion, for such a thing get through, and got out on the difficulties, the chief one being per- being made up as follows:

that he was at the junction of never enters his head, since as a compound, seeking a way out haps that the students who enter Endowmeals... $242.927.22 Spring Garden Lane and Queen's rule he is quite innocent of class through the maze of passages be the Faculty of Engineering are

tween the various buildings. Tuition Fees ....... 111.487.00 | Road East when the defendant ap- consciousness.

more attracted by the less physical- the Government Grant & 50,000.00 peared, riding on a motor-cycle at

Apparently his intention was toy-exacting requirements of "J. D." then describes the Donations ....

37,828.13 the rate of between 25 and 30 miles Englishman's first six months in escape into Arbuthnot Road, and Civil Engineering course. Others courtes·

87,145.35 an hour, being accompanied by a China. He is told that the he had negotiated a passage as far second motor-cycle. Ho followed Chinese are queer people, but as as the women's section of the Goal, $529,387.70 them as far as the Murray Bar- they are useful he is advised to when his movements were detect It is possible that in our attempt The total expediture amounted racks. There he stopped the de- keep in with "these Chinks." Fur-ed by a warder stationed in this to train Chinese mechanical and to 8532,706.31. The year therefore fendant and told him that he would ther, that his initiation into area. The alarm was given and electrical engineers we have started closed with a deficit of $3,318.61 he summoned for dangerous driv foreign community life consists of the man was caught after a brief at the wrong end: that what is which in more than accounted for ing.

needed is not so much an attempt by the fact that a large and un- Defendant then replied that he going to clubs, hotels, cabarets, struggle.

cinemas and places of vice, and Mr. J. W. Franks, Superinten- to induce young men whose parents. foreseen expenditure had to be in- hnd no speedometer and did not driving his motor-car through dent of the Gaol, who charged the can afford to give them a secondary curred in reconditioning the elec-know at 'what speed, he was going. evil-smelling Chinese quarters man in Court, addressing his Wor-school and University education to tricial system, of the University While the two machines were where the native is too stupid to ship, said that the man was sery become mechanical and electrical

passing through Wanchai, there get out of his way,

jing, a sentence which would not engineers, as to train selected arti- was a big crowd of many thousands

expire until June 6th. He applied zans to be capable of doing a in the street, which was a narrow

that any sentence inflicted on the higher grade of work. new charge, should one. I was Saturday night and many people were going into the

from that date. Grand Theatre when the defendant drove by.

The Finances.

during the year under review:

Unpaid Chinese Bills.

Mr. Hornell concludes the re- port as follows:

Since the year under review closed the number of students in the University has risen to 327 which is a record. No less than

Mr. Cooper, in reply to the 87 of these students, are, women, charge, stated he had come Fewer students are coming to the down from Kennedy Road, and University from Malay (this is in-was the whole time following evitable owing to educational another motor-cycle, but did developments in Singapore) and not pass it. Also, in front of that present conditions are all geniost cycle, there was a notor-ear, and students coming to Hongkong in he wanted to know why all four any great number from China. were not summoned. If there had The University is still educating, been many thousands of people in housing and feeding six students the street, how was it that he did who came here years ago us not knock one of them down, going scholars sent to the University by

at the speed of 30 miles an hour varlous Chinese Governments. As was alleged? The unpaid bill of these: Chinese Government Scholarships amountą to no less than $117,717.

is

also

Other Cyclist Wanted,

Long Office Hours.

"1. D." scems to ignore the main reason why Englishmen are sent to China. We would remind him that usually British firms send them six out to work, and that they often have to work longer hours than in this country. Their spare time is taken up with outdoor games, and, of course, in a comparatively small community club life plays an im- portant part.

"J. D." then comes to the ques- tion why the English so detest the Chinese. This is a most extra- ordinary assumption. In no other part of the world have individuals

The Arrest

commence

The prisoner was sentenced

months' hard labour.

AMERICANS.GAIN CONCESSIONS.

eminent are of no use to them unless and until they have passed successfully through an appren- ticeship in a commercial workshop. Practical training in a University workshop is not regarded as in any real sense un equivalent.

The-University authorities do not dispute the reasonableness of this.

Wrong End?

The University would welcome to Its Engineering Faculty indentured to apprentices from the local engineer ing workshops who had attained such a general standard of educa- tion (this would have to include a practical knowledge of English) as would enable them to follow the mechanical or electrical courses. This arrangement would have the great advantage of enabling such students to continue to be appren- tices and to return to their shops during the vacations.

·AGREEMENT IN PARIS WITH KING AMANULLAH,

New York, May 7. A group of American financiers

The great difficulty in inaugurat- ing such a scheme is that there are: not in Hongkong any night-schools or similar institutions at which apprentices and other workers

of two nations formed stron- recently concluded a contract with Ker Gr more lasting friend-King Amanullah in Paris, in con- ships. Those of us who left nexion with important off and could continue their education dur- Sergeant Baker said he did not China after many years resi-mineral concessions in Afghanising their off-hours. The situation see the rar mentioned by defen-dence still keep in touch with our tan, which the concessionaires will dant, but he had summoned the old Chinese friends. We driver of the other motor-cycle.

He was Mr. D. Thompson, who worked in the Dairy Farm together with the defendant.

But the University in now appealing to a far wider public circle in Hongkong, while in Shanghai its reputation stands high. The University attracting students, especially medical students, from the Philip

Inspector Alexander then ex- pine Islands. What is true of a prophet is true also of a Univer-plained that he had been requeRİ, ofty, and there are still in Hong-ed to arrange it so that only Mr. kong critics (plenty of them) who Cooper need attend the Court, ns regard the University as a futile it was found impossible to have piece of foolish extravagance and both men taken away from their take every opportunity of pro- work at the same time.

His Worship, however, required claiming this view. If such critics were to try and close the Univer-the presence of Mr. Thompson in sity, they would probably find 4 Court and intimated that he, would good deal of local apposition pos- adjourn both summonses and hear sibly in quarters where they least them together next week. expected it.

Degrees at Modest Cost.

Passed on Wrong Side.

After all there are plenty of Summoned for passing another people in Hongkong who are not vehicle on the left-hand side, Mr. rich, and it is something that the C. D. Wright, who was riding a local resident, of whatever race, who is finding it a hard struggle to motor-cycle in Queen's Road East

ble

on April 20th, complained of the

live and to do the best for lack of courtesy on the part of the children, can send hig driver of a motor-car which was

daughter to the University of Hongkong to acquire hindering his passage.

Don

or

there for a comparatively modest

The motor-car, defendant stated,

fee a medical degree, for example, was astride the tram-tracks, and which is recognised by the General It was his experience that the Medical Council of Great Britain driver in the front car would not and Ireland. And the total cost make way for him. After sound- of the University to the tax-payering his horn, he slipped past the of Hongkong is £5,000 a year, and car, there being ample room for

less that purpose. this contribution represent

than 10% of University's total an- nual expenditure.

The dificulties which confront

him...

fined $10 for Defendant was passing the car and a further $4 for failing to produce his licence. Reckless Driving.

That night he was in a hurry, having a dinner appointment, and having changed to evening dress, the farther development of the he did not have his Hcence with University (and no University can stand still are tremendous. could scarcely be otherwise; for the University was founded on an ex- ceedingly glender Gnancial basle and is situated in the midst of all those peculiar perplexities which beset this Colony's very existence. But its roots are growing stronger was and deeper and the University willing. not easily be uprooted.

Jonio Glovanni, a Fint engineer summoned for reckless driv-

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"Poor fellow, I suppose you seldom come in contact with the finer things of life."

"That's right, lady, and when I do it ain't fit to drink."

which is one of vital importance to the future industrial development of the Colony has been investigated. It is impossible to say more than that.

Shanghai Polytechnic. Meanwhile the establishment of a polytechnie in Shanghal under one of the provisions of the Will of the Inte Mr. Henry Lester-an enter- prise which is being worked out by the Trustees in close co-operation with the University-will mean a real attempt, backed up by adequate funds, to deal with the problem of the production of a higher 'typo. of Chinese worker by placing before apprentices and artizans generally, opportunities for educating them- selves and thus becoming capable of more responsible work.

The chaos which now prevails in China is undoubtedly handicapping the Engineering Faculty, for there is practically no present demand in China for engineers, but the crux

of the Faculty-it was at one time the crux of Engineering Faculties and Colleges everywhere and it still is the erux of all such Facul- ties and Colleges in the East-is to turn out engineers who combine theoretical skill with practical capa- city. But whatever the training, the product that goes out will be merely a development of what gocu in. No system of training can make an engineer of a young man i who has not got within some sort of mechanical bent.

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